Year 5 have created a collection of handcrafted red poppies with textured oil pastels.The deep crimson petals and dark centres create a vivid contrast, while delicate banners reading “Lest We Forget” turns the artwork into a Remembrance tribute.
Today, Crew Godley stepped into the world of street art as we explored the work of British graffiti artist STIK.
We began with a gallery walk, carefully looking at STIK’s artwork and sharing our thoughts and ideas about his use of colour, shape, movement and expression. We then became artists ourselves, experimenting with different ideas and creating several drafts before developing our final designs.
The Crew showed creativity, craftsmanship and resilience as they refined their ideas and turned their initial sketches into some fantastic final artwork inspired by STIK. We are so proud of the care and thought that went into each piece and can’t wait to see these on our final product.
Today, we were given a set of materials needed to create our Mars Rovers. We used the materials to practice building what they may look like… 🪐
This morning, we began our expedition hook day. We explored Mars Rovers through a range of activities including exploring new vocabulary, reading texts, analysing photos, types of rocks and videos and looking at a rover prototype.
Crew White have been developing their artistic skills by exploring watercolour techniques. We experimented with controlling the amount of water and paint on our brushes, creating washes, blending colours and building different tones.
We also discussed how to use watercolours carefully and appropriately, including looking after our brushes, keeping colours clean and using just the right amount of water.
A calm, creative session with some fantastic results! 🎨
This week, Crew McGlone have been focusing on the story of ‘Storm Dragon’ by Dianne Hofmeyr. We have really enjoyed taking part in a sensory story to help support us with the structure and sequencing of events in the story.
Our writing this week saw us create ‘I can see’ sentences using a stimulus of a depiction of the storm dragon. We talked about the different parts of the storm dragon we could see, some of us even challenged ourselves by adding in some detail to our sentences to give a clearer description. We even used our sentence building knowledge in provision when drawing our own pictures.
We have also absolutely LOVED using our imagination and leading our own learning when accessing provision – we have created shelters to protect us from the storm, large scale models of the storm dragon, small world scenes of the story, created our own role play sensory story, made a collaborative collage dragon, made models out of playdough, made our own spyglasses to search for storm dragons, and lots of things in between!
Today we watched a demo sent especially to us from Nick Mackman, a real life Artist. She taught us that animals have personalities and to be a good artist, we have to look for these before we try to capture their likeness. We took some time looking at photos of animals to see what emotions and characteristics we could see before deciding if we agree with Nick Mackman… we did! We then sketched An animal sculpture and tried to capture their personalities through their expression and posture. Here we are being artists just like Nick Mackman.
This week, we have been baking and decorating some cupcakes for Red Nose Day, and while doing this, we had discussions around fundraising and how baking and selling was one of the many ways we could raise money. We used visuals and videos to explain what Comic Relief is, and the children completed tasks based on money and feelings.
Last week the children created beautiful Mother’s Day cards using their own handprints to form bright, blooming flowers, each one as unique as the child who made it. They also explored paint blowing, carefully guiding colours across the page to create some unique shapes. As they worked, we spoke about the special people in their lives—mums, grandmothers, and other loved ones. Showing off there progress with writing inside the cards themselves.
