Everyone in 9R has been having lots of festive fun throughout the week. Taking part in decorating biscuits, designing a bauble for the tree, festive bingo, Christmas jumper day, a live link to Jack and the Beanstalk pantomine. Each day a super star pupil is chosen to select the solar system advent and read the…
Key stage 3 pupils learned what Automatism is today in Art. They had to not think for a few minutes while they doodled, which is harder than it sounds. Then we looked at their doodles and discussed what we could see, and how everyone’s perspective is different. Pupils then picked out their images with outlines…
Over the last week pupils in 9R have been completing a range of activities and discussions around the topic and events of what happened after the wars. They have embedded knowledge and skills from History and English to produce a brilliant Art piece for to Display in school and share in the Remembrance assembly. The…
Hazel class enjoyed exploring different types of materials in Science today. We spoke about their different properties, how they felt and what we thought they could be used for. In the afternoon we then used different types of materials to print in art. Well done Hazel class.
In Art today Hazel class explored colour changing. They discussed what primary are and how we can make secondary colours. Some pupils used PECS to request the colours and then comment on what colour they had made. Being able to use PECS in a more cross curricular way enables pupils to generalise the skill.…
Pupils in 9R have learnt about colour mixing, and used the secondary colours that they created to recreate an iconic illustration from the book ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’. Using shape recognition and cutting skills and also thinking about placement on the page in order to recreate the image. They all captured the bright colourful shapes and…
Pupils learnt about our native endangered species as part of their Art lessons today in Key stage 3. They all began designing a mural for the Grantham Climate Art Prize in conjunction with the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this November. Some amazing drawings already ahead of the deadline.
This afternoon we went for a walk to see a local sculpture called ‘The Men of Steel’ also known locally as ‘The Transformers’. We learnt all about the sculpture for Art and this visit also combined our RRS topic of National Walking Month with our English topic of Non-Fiction Texts. In English we have been…
Today our home learning stars from each class had the opportunity to design their own glass star decoration as a keepsake to remind them of their home learning success this term. Pupils got to choose the colours they wanted to include in their star and also learnt about the glass fusing process. Due to the…
80 have linked their Maths learning of angles to their Art topic of pattern, by choosing the number of lines of symmetry and reflection within their design which they created on the computer. Promoting creative decision making based around angles, colours and line thickness they all created beautiful mandala imagery which has a striking similarity…