Water day in F1

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD27th February 2025

As part of our study of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, we have had a ‘water’ day today. Some of the children started their morning listening to a beautiful piece of music and watching a river flow. The marks they made on their paper was inspired by what they were listening to and watching. I think you’ll agree that these three pieces of work show what the children were thinking and feeling beautifully. Well done Ella, Vinnie and Elliot!
Please click on the links. Watch the river (with the sound turned off) and listen to the music. See what you think!

Piet Mondrian!

By Jodie Buss3rd February 2025

F2 have taken inspiration from the famous artist Piet Mondrian this week, creating their very own abstract pieces of work!

We researched and discovered lots about the famous Dutch artist and looked closely at the colours and shapes he used in his artwork!

We loved his use of squares and rectangles and how he focused a lot on primary colours!

We had great fun cutting shapes and making our very own Mondrian pieces!

They look magnificent displayed around our classroom and art area!!!

Can you guess what it is yet?!

By Jodie Buss9th January 2025

This week Mrs Buss had changed around some of our classroom and had started to create a fabulous space for us to build some houses!!! The children were a big help and wanted to build a house using bricks! We discussed what houses were made from and how our own houses were built.

We decided to do some brick printing ready to create one of our houses. We had great fun looking at bricks, and the colours. The children mixed lots of colours together to make the perfect brick shade red/brown and loved getting stuck in pushing their bricks and stamping on the paper! We made a great brick wall and had lots of fun in doing so!

This term our topic is ‘Houses and Homes’ and we will be looking at different houses around the world and how they are made… Can you guess what our story could be in Literacy? Something with a brick house, a straw house and a stick house…

Jackson Pollock

By Jodie Buss9th January 2025

F2 have been very busy studying and researching the artist ‘Jackson Pollock’ over the last term! Today the children had great fun creating their own Jackson Pollock inspired artwork by flicking and splatting their brushes to create very colourful and bright masterpieces!

The children had great fun mixing and making their own colours and enjoyed splatting paint whilst listening to some music! This definitely got our creative juices flowing and we had so much fun dancing, painting and expressing ourselves! Definitely our favorite artist technique studied so far!

A little surprise…

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD27th November 2024

When we looked in our special bag today, Harriet thought she spotted a bag of sugar but Charlotte said it was ‘powder’.  Eva guessed it was flour.  She was right.

Then we found a tub of salt.  Mrs Silverwood thought it might be sugar but tasted a little bit, it wasn’t very nice at all!  Elliot said that his Grandad likes salt.

We looked at the instructions, which told us how to make salt dough.  We thought it was a bit like play dough but, instead of putting it away when we have finished making things, we can bake them and keep them forever!

The children used their growing motor-skills to knead the dough and then roll it out.

Everyone will have to wait and see the finished article though!

Autumn Painting in F1

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD13th November 2024

There was only this toy in our special bag this morning but Harriett knew that it could spin round and round.  Who knew that it would change colour as it whizzed round though!

Click on the link below to see our fabulous Autumn painting, inspired by our toy…

Autumn Painting in F1

Making waves in F1

By S Wilkinson24th June 2024

This week in F1 we are learning all about the story Commotion in the Ocean.

In the creative area this morning we have enjoyed creating waves by mixing the colours green, blue and white to blend and create different shades of each colour.