Gorgeous collages

8th September 2025Mrs Lewis

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

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The Great Kapok Tree

3rd September 2025Mrs Lewis

This week, Year 5 have been diving into The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry. The story, set in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, sparked some fantastic discussions about nature, conservation, and the importance of every creature in an ecosystem.

Inspired by the book, the children created their very own kapok trees. They worked carefully to bring the rainforest to life through their artwork, using bright colours and imaginative detail to make their trees unique and vibrant.

The children showed their character trait of quality and craftsmanship throughout the project. Each piece was produced with real care, attention, and creativity – and the results were stunning!

Well done, Year 5 – your kapok trees are a true celebration of both art and storytelling.

Mrs Lewis

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Craftsmanship and Quality

28th August 2025Mr Schofield

Today, 5S looked at ‘The Dot’ to help introduce the character trait of ‘craftsmanship and quality’ – it helped us to learn about the importance of always giving the best effort that is appropriate to our ability, and working hard to produce work that is more beautiful every day.

We also developed our art skills by looking at complementary and contrasting colours to create our very own masterpiece ‘dot’.

Painting Fun

12th July 2025Joshua Meade

Some of the children chose to do some lovely paintings in provision yesterday afternoon, painting themselves, spider man, red vans, flowers and princesses! #LovePlover

New F2M Painting Faces

8th July 2025Joshua Meade

In our final transition day, the children enjoyed mixing paints “water, sponge, paint, mix, brush” and painted their beautiful faces which was reflected in the mirror. #LovePlover

Amazing artwork!

9th June 2025Mrs Haycock

Year three have been studying the work of Katsushika Hokusai and replicating his piece ‘The Great Wave’. Take a look for yourselves…their work is better than my words!

Well done everyone – great work!

I can’t wait to see the final pieces!

Mrs Haycock

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3,2,1…Beautiful Artwork!

9th June 2025Mrs Lewis

In 2L the children have been looking at the work of artist Peter Thorpe. Peter Thorpe created artwork inspired by outer space and used bold, bright colours to bring his imagination to life. The children used painting and pastel techniques to create these beautiful pieces of artwork. They worked really hard and their artwork is fantastic. What do you think?

Mrs Lewis

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Character drawing and paintings

8th June 2025Joshua Meade

The children chose characters from The Great Fairytale Disaster. They used shapes to draw them and then painted their characters. We had Wolf, pigs, bears, Cinderella, giant, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Fairy Godmother. #LovePlover