Do you know anyone who has worked in the mines or was a miner during the strikes, who would be willing to come and share their experiences with our children?
Do you have any mining artefacts that you would be willing to lend us?
If so, can you please either see Miss Shields in person or email at [email protected].
Thanking you in advance.
Miss Shields
MI have shown such resilience and determination today during our art sessions. We finally learnt and started to understand that art is a long process and we need to ensure we take our time to ensure we create quality pieces. MI have certainly shown this today. We have used a step by step process to create our Martin Luther King Jr images and children were super proud at the end of the day. We will just add further sketching techniques tomorrow to finish off our creations. We will then move onto looking at Rosa Parks 🙂 Great work MI!
Today we started our art case study where we explored and used a range of sketching techniques. First we looked at and used different sketching pencils thinking about tone and how different pencils do this. We then explored tone further by thinking about the pressure we apply to our pencil. After this we looked at 7 different sketching techniques and had a go at practising these. From he we researched the artist Edgar Degas, thinking about the type of artist he is and the different pieces of art he created. The final part of the lesson allowed us to apply all the features we had learnt to a Edgar Degas image. We tried to use some of the techniques we had practised earlier in the lesson.
Please follow the link below to download the Young Voices charity single with all money raised going to Place2Be and children’s mental health charities.
Warning… Don’t look if you’re scared of spiders haha!!
We had a great day doing lots of different activities: making bookmarks, creating new front covers, writing facts for a non-fiction book, lots of reading and we even retold our own version of the ‘Three Little Pigs’.
When we went to Young Voices at the beginning of February, we were part of a recording of the song ‘Proud’ alongside the legendary music artist Heather Small and the rest of the Young Voices choir. On Monday 6th March, this song is being released to raise vital funds for the charity Place2Be, and children’s mental health. Check out the teaser below!
