Category Art & DT

4 White Light Up The Room

This week in 4 White, we made our own torches fit for a soldier. We used our knowledge from our Science learning and thought about what the torches needed. What was successful about your torches? What would you change if…

1R Fruit Faces

This half term we have been creating fruit faces as a healthy snack for the tiger! We had to make sure that our snacks were delicious and included at least 3 different fruits. We had to peel and chop our…

5 White – Salvador Dali

As part of our learning about Dali, we looked at his famous piece of art, The Persistence of Memory. We started by exploring a range of media in order to be able to select the best options for our own…

4W Make Bread 🥖

Today as part of our DT unit 4 White made bread. They measured the ingredients accurately, mixed and kneaded the dough. Once the dough had fermented the children added raisins, chocolate chips or seeds based on their design and plan.…

Evaluating Bread in 4 White 🍞🥖🥯

This week in 4 White we tasted different types of bread, as the evaluating stage of our DT unit. We tasted pitta breaded, seeded rolls, raisin brioches and chocolate chip brioches too!We evaluated the texture, appearance, smell and taste of…

2Blue – Art Around The World Week

Monday Today, the children delved into all things India! Initially, they located India on a globe, then they labelled the seven continents on a map, and located India and England. After a while, the children explored the ‘Dhol’. They even…

2Blue Visit The Circus!

What a day! 2Blue had the pleasure of visiting a circus this morning. Thank you Mrs Frankish, we loved it and we had lots of fun! What did you enjoy most about this week?

Circus in Year 5

What an amazing day in Year 5. We were lucky enough to experience a real circus. What did you learn? What was the best thing you saw?

1Blue Fantastic, Creative Friday!

What a great day we have had! This morning, the children created wonderful pieces of art using line and watercolours. They were inspired by the artist, Georgia O’Keeffe. STAR Spellers! Eid Mubarak to those celebrating!

DT Evaluation Year 4

Today, you will be evaluating your fantasy vehicles. The design brief was to create a vehicle for Phileas Fogg to travel around the world in. Use these sentence openers to help you discuss your ideas. We achieved/didn’t achieve our design…

5Red Glorious Greek Day

From our Glorious Greeks day, we can tell you everything you want to know about the ancient Greeks, from mythical gods and goddesses and the Olympic Games, to warriors and heroes such as Hercules. Sculpture Materials investigation We investigated which materials…

Art Day in 4 Blue

Today, 4 Blue learnt about William Morris, a famous print maker, designer, poet and artist. They carefully drew from observation and were even able to design and make their own printing blocks before using them to print. What new information…

5 Blue-Art day

Today was art day and as a school we are looking at ’Global orchards’. In Year 5, we are looking specifically at ’Olive orchards’. To learn the importance and symbolism of a olive branch The children researched and created a…

Art builder day in 5 Red.

What a day we have had for Art day! We started off the day by using recyclable materials such as egg shells in to bowls of water, vinegar and food colouring to dye egg shells different tints and tones of…

1Blue – Friday Poetry and Art

This half term, in English, the children will be learning to write a poem in the shape of a flower. The children read 5 different shape poems and then shared which ones they liked most. This half term, in Art,…

6W are riding Hokusai’s Great Wave!

Can you tell me an interesting fact that you have learnt about this Era? How did it begin? End? What do you think inspired this artist the most? How was his work influenced by his country’s current climate and history?…

5 Blue- DT Theatre Structures

This half term, 5 Blue have been working in teams to design and make a theatre in which they would have like to perform their Macbeth assembly. They researched the features of a theatre and explored building strong shapes. They…

5red surrealist artwork

This half term we have been learning about Salvador Dali. Salvador Dalí made paintings, sculptures and films about the dreams he had. He painted melting clocks and floating eyes, clouds that look like faces and rocks that look like bodies.…

4 Blue are amazing artists!

This week, we followed an online tutorial to draw some rainforest animals. Then we used the oil pastel techniques to add colour. What techniques have you used with the pastels? What would you improve about your art?

1Blue – Fun Friday!

What a day! What a week! Today, 1Blue took part in so many things. From role-playing the story, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, to tasting and describing fruits for our DT lesson. STAR Spellers! DT Fruit Tasting. The children…

2 Red Moving Pictures

The children have had a great time this week creating their very own moving picture. They decided on a theme, created a plan and followed it. What great results 2 Red. We are proud of you! What did you enjoy?…

1Blue – Design Week – Friday

What a fantastic week we have had! The children researched different houses, designed and labelled their house, made their house using different materials, created a door on a hinge and finally, today, they improved their houses! What a week! What…

5Blue- Design and Technology week

This week, the children were given the following design brief. The children investigated cam mechanisms and identified the different components. They looked at different shaped cams and discussed how they moved differently. What is a cam? What is a follower?…