Art & DT | Plover School

Party Paper Chains

10th September 2025Joshua Meade

We used our fine motor skills to make some paper chains and used our colours to make them repeating patterns – well done F2M. #LovePlover

CAKE

10th September 2025Amy Woods

Today we have been working collaboratively to paint and collage our picture of a cake. We explored a variety different of materials including paint, glitter and tissue paper.

Mrs Williams

#LovePlover

Year 5 have been getting creative in art, inspired by the brilliant artist Clare Youngs. Clare makes colourful animal collages using lots of different shapes, patterns and textures – and we decided to have a go ourselves!

Our theme was rainforest animals. We created creatures like butterflies, jaguars, toucans, birds and monkeys. First, we drafted our ideas and sketched out how our animals might look. Then came the really exciting part – working with a partner to create a final collage together. It was great fun to share ideas, combine our designs and see how two brains could come together to make one amazing piece of artwork.

The finished collages are bright, bold and full of rainforest life. They look incredible on display and really show off our teamwork as well as our creativity.

We’re so proud of what we’ve made – Clare Youngs would be too!

Mrs Lewis

#LovePlover

Colour Mixing

3rd September 2025Amy Woods

In nursery we have been exploring colours and colour mixing. We painted our hands two different colours, then made predications on what colour it would turn when we rubbed them together.

Mrs Williams

#LovePlover

Primary Engineer!

1st July 2025Mr Schofield

A few weeks ago, children in Year 5 engaged with Primary Engineer and Siemens to work on a project to build a working locomotive, using new tools and skills to develop and create a ‘train’ locomotive that progressed their knowledge of Design, Technology and Science.

The children can all be very proud to say they worked in small teams to build working locomotives that were able to travel in straight lines (as on a track) and carry a small load. Myself and the other teachers were extremely impressed with how brilliantly everyone engaged with the work and took care to ensure their products fitted the brief.

Then – today – three children were selected to attend the celebration event where they were interviewed about the development of the design, their involvement in improving the quality of the working parts, and tested its usefulness in carrying a load on a straight line – just like a real train! They were a credit to the school and presented us beautifully with their ‘Flying Scotsman’ inspired design, making links to our coal mining expedition and Doncaster.

Well done year 5!

We Are Artists

19th June 2025Amy Woods

Nursery have been working hard to produce lots of beautiful artwork using different media’s. We explored colour mixing to create humpty dumptys, drew our favourite nursery rhymes and collaboratively created collages.

Mrs Williams

#LovePlover

Viking Sculptures

8th June 2025Mr Pickering

2P have been learning about the Vikings as part of our Expedition and we used our artistic skills to create a paper sculpture of a Viking Longboat. It was extremely challenging and we had to use great teamwork, communication, resilience and perseverance. In the end, we got there and did a fabulous job! Well done 2P!

#LovePlover

Peter Thorpe art

8th June 2025Mr Pickering

2P has been learning all about the Space artwork produced by the artist Peter Thorpe. We used this inspiration to create our own pieces of artwork where we painted with everything EXCEPT a paintbrush! We used sponges, card and combs to produce the overall effect of a rocket in space. We think they look amazing!

#LovePlover