Celebrating Diwali
Acorns have had a lovely week learning about the festival of lights, Diwali! We started the week in our celebration clothes, we watched traditional dancing and danced along to traditional […]
Category Archives: The Arts Learning
Queen Elizabeth II
In honour of our beloved Queen Elizabeth II the children have been reflecting on her life over the past few weeks creating some amazing outcomes. From EYFS to Y6 the […]
What makes me,me?
In Chestnuts our topic this term is all about ourselves and our families. This week we are looking carefully in a mirror to draw a self portrait.
Crazy colours!
We have had so much fun looking at the different colours. We have learnt their names and looked at different shades of each colour. We were great at sorting objects […]
Artist Study: Paul Klee
Y1M have been learning about abstract art, by looking at the work of artist Paul Klee. We had a go at creating our own version of his famous painting, Flora […]
A busy week in 3/4H
We’ve been very busy in 3/4H this week. Keep reading to find out some of the things we’ve been up too. Literacy: this week we started a new block of […]
What’s your emergency?
This week in Chestnuts our class text is all about the fire service. We have written lists of equipment they need and started using different media to make fire engines. […]
Showing tone in Y5/6AM
In art, we talked about tone in pictures – the light and dark parts in a picture. We then used 4B pencils and coloured pencils to practise showing tone. Finally, […]
Pattern work
Last week we investigated different patterns in our sketch books. This week we looked closely at our patterns again and chose the ones that looked most like brick work. We […]
Art in 3/4H
WOW! What amazing artists we have in 3/4H! This term we have been using different mediums to explore nature. This week we used chalk pastels to create observational drawings of […]
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