fire!

The y2's have completed their mixed media 'Great Fire of London' pieces. They've painted, printed, drawn and collaged wonderful representations of the conflagration!

 In y4 today we did a bit of 'action' painting - though a little bit more controlled than Jackson Pollack would probably have been. We dripped, splattered and poured volcanic eruptions.

mugs

In ceramics club we have been making mugs/beakers. We used rolled slabs formed around tubes. After bisque firing, yesterday we glazed them and today they are being fired for a final time. Fingers crossed that they don't split (or leak when used!).

printing

Continuing with the theme 'The Great Fire of London', our y2's this week printed some 'Tudor' houses.

They used various wooden pieces dipped in black paint.

printing

In y2 as a follow up to our colour-mixing from last week ('flames') we have been printing 'Tudor' houses. We used short lengths of wood and black paint. 

 

 

 

We didn't worry about printing them as a street scene as we are going to be creating the final 'Great Fire of London' pieces by collage next week. Hence the bits of buildings in this picture which, when assembled, will resemble a street of closely packed rickety wooden structures.

 



hotch potch

In preparation for a 'Great Fire of London' collage the children painted 'flames'. It was a good opportunity to revisit colour mixing/primary/secondary colours etc.

 

Meanwhile fresh from the kiln, some plaques of footy supporters. These are designed to be either hung on a wall or propped on a shelf. Not sure whether to add them to my Folksy shop - your views would be greatly appreciated as to whether they would sell.

Finally, a painting that I started today. It's on canvas and measures about 60x50cm.

recent



A few pics of stuff we've been doing around school over the last couple of days. Y2 are about to start a project on mini-beasts (and maxi-beasts ie. dinosaurs!) so we drew some spiders. In the top left corner you can see the child's initial drawing of what they thought looked like a spider. He was amazed at what he came up with following some guidance. 

 

 

 

In Y1 we completed our project on vehicles by constructing a rolling chassis and adding suitable bits and pieces to represent a specific form of transport.

 



 

 

In Y5 we looked at toys made by children in less fortunate parts of the world and then set about creating our own from bits and pieces that we had lying around - off cuts of wood from earlier projects, lengths of thread/wool, bits of wire etc.

 



 

 

In Y2 we also put together our Fire of London display using the mixed media pieces we created just before the Easter hols. It just needs a few written pieces to finish it off.

 



today

In FS2 we're currently making a 3d display of rooms around the school. These pics show the computer suite and one of the classrooms complete with 'oversize' (real-size) props. The room sets are small boxes and most of the 'furniture' is folded out of thin card.

 

 

 

 

 

In y2 we did a bit of painting/colour mixing - they're just about to begin studying the Great Fire of London. We'll be using these pieces in a future 3d decoupage along with some 'Tudor' houses that we're hoping to print in next weeks lesson.