Stay and engage – Crew McGlone 🚗🚚🚂

25th April 2023Sarah Mcglone

To get hooked into our new expedition, we invited our grown ups into school to help us create box models of different modes of transport. We had lots of different resources and materials to use and we used our creative skills to help us create AMAZING models that are now on display in our classroom. We will build on our skills by making lots of different box models linked to our expedition over the next few weeks. Miss McGlone was VERY impressed with what we created during our stay and engage session and she can’t wait to see what other creations we can make! Thank you to our grown ups for coming in and helping us, it was a lovely morning!

Stay and engage!

19th April 2023A Welburn

What a lovely afternoon we had with our parents in Reception! We really appreciate everyone coming in and working with us to support their children in junk modelling vehicles to enhance our environment! As usual, the children loved having you in school and they now have some fantastic skills to junk model independently in provision 🚗

Sketching in the sunshine

18th April 2023Ruth Shields

Crew Shields made the most of the sunshine this afternoon by going out and sketching with charcoal. As part of our hook week, we have been discussing the community and recapped how Carcroft came into existence because of the coal mining industry. They learned that our school was built for the purpose of educating the miners children so it was only fitting that we sketched some of the building with charcoal.

We haven’t used charcoal as a medium for art before so this was a new experience but something we all enjoyed. Even better that we were catching some rays of sunshine.

Final Art Pieces

28th March 2023Ruth Shields

Well all I can say is WOW!

Not only have the children blown me away with their sketching but they have impressed me with their perseverance. Even though, sketching isn’t their favourite subject they haven’t let it defeat them and give it 100%. I am beyond proud of them and it’s lovely they’ve shared how they are proud of themselves.

Sketching – Martin Luther King

23rd March 2023Ruth Shields

During our expedition lessons this week, we have completed our first draft of Martin Luther King. When we finished we hd a gallery walk to allow us to appreciate the hard work everyone had put in to their art work. We then discussed critique and how we could make them even better next time. Although they were a first draft, I’m extremely proud of what they have produced and it was lovely hearing them express how they were proud of themselves during check out. Keep an eye out for the next draft…

Sketching techniques

21st March 2023Ruth Shields

Yesterday, we explored a range of sketching pencils and how they create a different effect when using sketching techniques. When we’d had an opportunity to use each of the pencils, we had a go at applying this to a small section of Edgar Degas artwork.

Art – Edgar Degas

17th March 2023Ruth Shields

It has been lovely today as we started our 3rd and final case study of our current expedition. Children were researching Edgar Degas who was a french impressionist known for his drawings of ballerinas.

As a crew we had the opportunity to recreate some of his work using skills we have learning previously. The children have done a super job considering they don’t particularly like art as they feel it is the subject they are least confident in. However, they did not let this deter them from putting 100% effort in. It was especially nice hearing them share in crew how they felt happy because they thought they’d be terrible but had actually done a really good job.