For Art, we have been mark making, pencil sketching and shading, and this week moved on to using different pencils and pastels. We started mark making and looking at ways you can shade, mark, pattern and draw with pencils. This week we have been looking at landscapes using lines and pastel art and
We continue to take part in the Creative Storytelling sessions with the charity Equal Arts and our friends at Angel Court. This week we finished the collage, adding the printed adjectives in strips to represent the winds hair. Leaves were cut out and then curled and stuck into the winds flowing lock
This week, the children finished off their unit in Art by producing river scenes onto cloth using the method of batik. Last week, the children sketched two designs of river landscapes and then selected their favourite design to replicate onto a piece of cloth. They carefully sketched out their cho
This week in art, year 3 explored various types of printing. The children first explored how using ink and ink rollers on different items, such as Lego, corrugated card and sand paper, can create different textures. They then moved on to monoprinting which allowed the children to make a print usin
The children enjoyed an afternoon with the residents of Angel Court and a creative writer from The Equal Arts Council. These sessions tie into the everyone’s love of nature. Last week we began with a story about how the trees lose their leaves, this week the sessions continued with a tale about Gret
Year 6 children headed out to the Forest School this week to begin in a block of sessions that have a definite theme running in the background but still follow the guiding principles of the Forest School. Last lesson we stayed in class avoiding the torrential rain and set the scene for the next few
This week, the children in Year 5 were introduced to a new art concept called ‘batik’. The children completed a reading exercise to find out more information about batik, including how long it has been used for and what countries it originated from. Then, we moved on to investigating how different
Year 6 lead our Nursery children in a Forest School session and demonstrated why this part of our weekly life at Harlow Green is so important. In a formal sense this is why we do it: “The process helps and facilitates more than knowledge-gathering, it helps learners develop socially, emotionally, sp
Our art in Year 6 this term, has involved us sculpting 3D models. We made links to other areas of the curriculum and made clay sculptures of people in Pompeii after the eruption at Vesuvius and art straw models of Olympic sports. The unit started by looking at the work of some famous artists – Henry
During Art, the boys and girls in Year 3 have looked at the work of the artist Julia Lidell. She is a textile artist who produces woven designs. They began by commenting on which pieces they liked the best and identified how her work made them feel before sketching one of her designs. In order to re
