Kitchen tour in MI

5th June 2024Stacey McClare

Today we joined Amy in the kitchen where she discussed food hygiene and safety with us. She gave us a tour of the kitchen and showed us what happens on a daily basis when preparing our school dinners. She discussed the equipment she uses and why certain chopping boards are certain colours. She talked about cross contamination and why basic food hygiene is so important. She then showed us the school fridge and discussed where foods need to go. She linked this back to cross contamination. This was such a great opportunity for us and will support us in our first design and technology lesson tomorrow 🙂

Crew MW – Final product artwork creation

4th June 2024Sarah Mcglone

In Crew MW, we have been creating our collages ready to be included in our final product. We started by practising our cutting skills before applying them to cut out an outline of a creature from under the sea. We cut along different types of lines and even challenged ourselves to cut around shapes!

After a discussion around collaging and the skills needed to do this, we then began to collage our creatures to create our first draft.

We then spent time doing a gallery walk to provide our peers with praises and wonders to form critique to make our sea creature collages even better. We talked about using different materials in different ways to create different textures, as well as making sure that most of the white areas were covered to make our collage look more effective. We then got to work acting upon these wonders, reflecting on making improvements to our existing work.

Exploring Henri Matisse

14th May 2024Laura Godley

This week we have been artists, exploring the collage techniques of a Henri Matisse, a French artist.

Firstly, we had a gallery walk and shared our notices and wonders about his work. We collected ideas and created a giraffe in preparation for our final piece where we will collage different animals to place in Noah’s Ark! We thought carefully about how how we could manipulate materials to create shapes.

Exploring Henri Matisse

13th May 2024Nicola Robson

Today we began the art part of our case study by looking at the French artist Henri Matisse.

First we did a gallery walk and shared our notices and wonders about his work. We then had a go at collaging a giraffe in preparation for our final piece where we will collage different animals to place in Noah’s Ark!