Igniting Wonder – Year 5’s trip to Ely Cathedral sparked their curiosity and developed their understanding of the cross curricular work they are doing about pilgrimage this half term. This spectacular building and particularly the stained glass ignited the children’s wonder and will also be the inspiration for their design work in Art. The aims…
Year 5 have been making sculptures based on Tony Cragg’s work. They initially made a collage based on an object and then identified the positive and negative spaces. Using the negative spaces from the collage they designed and created a sculpture. They then had to place their sculpture in a landscape and reflect on how…
Once again, as it does every summer term, the Talbot Room is displaying some fabulous artwork from our Year 8s. One of our Art Scholars tells us about her scholarship journey. I have always really enjoyed art, but hadn’t had the opportunity to learn much about different techniques I could use. When I came to…
Year 4 had their curiosity sparked when they studied some of Magritte’s surrealist creations. They have started to create a surrealist story and will be adding chapters throughout the term. The children were then challenged to choose one of their characters and have produced some fabulous glazed ceramic sculptures.
In the development of their project ‘Portraying Relationships’, Year 5 created a glazed pottery representation of their chosen character. These fabulous ceramic character faces have helped enhance the students’ confidence in their manual dexterity and knowledge of how to work successfully with ceramics. Having studied the relationship between ‘Mr and Mrs Clarke and Percy’ at…
Amazing Architecture Our budding architects and engineers in Year 8 were challenged to design and construct a building. Their brief was deliberately wide, to see what sparked the curiosity and they were told they could use any materials they wanted to. Their 5R skills were tested to the full as they had to use their…
This term, Year 4 are studying Surrealism. Looking at works by Renee Magritte and Salvador Dali, they discussed the dream-like quality of the story that the pictures portray. Using magazine cuttings to create an unreal and surreal picture, their story or dream has begun. Chapter 1 has been pencil drawn using their collage from magazines…
This three week project was based on the theme of the term: the ‘Scented Garden’. Year 2 had to reflect on the theme and design a garden, then using their 2D design they created a model of the garden…next stop The Chelsea Flower Show!
A great morning spent at Henry Moore Foundation helping the Year 7 pupils to see how a famous British sculptor used the landscape as inspiration to make Marquette’s and then enlarge them as they are doing in their current project in their art lessons.
Year 2’s inspiration was the artwork of Andy Goldsworthy, who only uses natural materials. His artwork is not created to be seen first hand. He takes photos and his work is often in very remote places. Hence the artwork will blow away, melt, be taken apart by animals etc. After Year 2 had finished they…
