There’s been lots of topic finishing and new topic starting this week.
Year 1 have finished their glove puppet creation and reviewed how they feel they had done. Some really positive responses, with several claiming that its the best thing they have ever made! …I was really impressed with everyone’s perseverance, as well as their remembering of the knowledge and skills and vocabulary.
Year 2 are finishing their pop art topic, adding the final layer of details to their group pieces to make sure that their levels of contrast are as high as possible in as many ways as possible. This week, they focussed on saturation of colour, shadows as well as black-lining between colours. They used a variety of mediums and tools including acrylics, pastels, ink along with brushes and tissue paper to create different textures. These have turned out fantastic and will become part of a corridor display in the near future.
Year 3 have begun their new topic of greenhouses and have started to gain the knowledge and vocabulary of the properties of greenhouses as well as begun to consider what materials could be used to achieve the intended results.
Year 4 watched the performance art of ‘stomp’, that uses recyclable materials and re-purposes it as musical instruments, then went on to create their own instruments with inspiration from African Art styles to decorate it. They also researched the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo ( for more information, please follow the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo) who created Surrealist portraits of people using inanimate objects. The children went on to attempt to create surrealist portraits themselves using collage.
Year 5 carried out a research investigation to discover what type of linear motions could be created using different shaped cams. With this knowledge, the children can begin to consider what types of cams they may like to use when they start to design their own moving toys.
Year 6 began the topic of bridge building. They discovered through investigations that different shaped beams produce different levels of resistance against downward forces and that alongside this, Trusses can be used to further increase these resistances by dispersing the central downward force across the length of the structure.
