RRS Jeans for Genes 7O
7O have been learning about the charity event Jeans for Genes, and have started making keyrings from old jeans to raise money for charities supporting people with a genetic condition.
Reflection patterns.
Year 10 art students used online software ‘Photopea’ to create reflection patterns as a response to the famous artist and pattern designer William Morris. Each pattern is based on a natural image, see if you can spot the animal, bird or plant. They are absolutely amazing!
Land Art
7V have been learning about different types of sculpture including abstract, figurative, relief, kinetic and today land art. They learned about the artist Andy Goldsworthy and created their own circular responses using found materials in our outdoor area. It was fantastic to see their designs evolving and growing as they made their own creative decisions…
Making God’s eyes in Birch (article 28 &31)
Today the pupils in Birch combined their learning from outdoor learning and Topic to tidying up their vegetable bedding planter and then searched for sticks of equal length and width to use as part of the God’s eye for topic. The pupils watched a short video clip of the tutorial of making the Gods eye,…
Jubilee Union Jack Designs
All classes in school were set the challenge of creating a Union Jack from recyclable materials. Each class created unique flags using a variety of materials and techniques; weaving, collage, image transfer, and painting. Amazing creativity from all year groups.
Our Royal Jubilee Celebrations (Birch)
Today in Birch everyone has thoroughly enjoyed participating in the Queen’s Royal Jubilee. We took part in activities from designing cakes, a quiz, a colouring competition, to making a Union Jack flag from recycled clothes and donating the rest of the clothes to Connect the clothing bank to compete in the competition to win funds…
Comic relief Day in Birch (Article 28,31)
During Comic Relief day in Birch the children participated in a range of fun activities in real super hero style. The pupils enjoyed being dressed up as their own super hero such as Iron man, PJ mask, Super Mario and Mrs Devlin is comic relief hero in her own style. Activities included designing your own…
World Book day in Art.
Pupils in Year 7 learned how the printing and etching process was invented and books became accessible to the masses, thanks to pioneers like Gutenberg and Thomas Bewick. They then used printing blocks to create their own prints.
World Book Day 9R (Article 29 & 31)
During World Book Week the pupils in 9R have worked extremely hard completing a range of fun and relaxing activities. They have designed their own personal book marks based on their favorite characters and even discussed characters to make up a story of their own. Mrs. Devlin brought in her favorite book and friendly Tiger…
9R Model making.
Pupils used fine and gross motor skills to join materials together in the first step of building our own Wizard’s castle/house in response to their English book ‘Whizzbang Wizard’ and also the artist Annalise Rees. They used communication, problem solving, and decision making skills to work as a team. Everyone was feeling proud of what…