slowly but surely

The Globe rises from the ground. Stage section is yet to be built.

 

A view along the middle tier - seating/audience yet to be installed.

The view from the stage area!

We think it's looking quite good. The plan is still to be able to poke your head up through the middle and imagine yourself as one of the 'groundlings'.

In y6 today we made some origami boxes, upturned them and repurposed them as tanks - to tie in with our WW2 topic.

ww2

A couple of our current displays. The first was inspired by the painting of Paul Nash - 'Battle of Britain'. The backdrop was done with oil pastels and torn paper - each child created a separate image of the GB coastline, hence the disjointed look,although I think it works. The aeroplanes are card models hung from the ceiling. I had to perch atop a rickety ladder to get this shot as the ceiling is about 10 foot high.The display is intended to get the children looking up - much as children would have done in 1940.

 

 

This is a panorama of The Blitz- again done with oil pastels.The searchlight beams were masked off whilst the 'glow' was applied using yellows, reds, oranges and purple. They were then picked out in white. 

pop ups

Today the y6's made pop-up Anderson shelters - they're looking at aspects of WW2 from a child's perspective. The aim is to stick them in their 'topic' books accompanied by relevant facts. These are pics of my mock-up to test the idea out. The last one shows a variation where you can take a peek inside the shelter from the back and see a bed/bench. They are A5 when folded. We used crayons/felt tips to add a representation of corrugated iron and details of sand-bagging or covering with earth/soil. Will try and get some pics of the finished pieces - it was a bit hectic during the lesson!

 

 

pastel pics

Y5 today produced 'blitz' oil pastel pictures (in the style of van Gogh!). We used dark blue sugar paper and masked out the searchlight beams. Yellow, orange, red, purple and blue stripes were laid onto the paper before being blended by adding marks of the colours either side (if that makes sense!). Searchlight beams were picked out in white before a dark silhouette was added in the foreground.

ww2 display

Managed to get some of the houses onto the 'interactive, time-lapse' display today - blutacked them on 'cos things are going to happen!

Not heard anything about the book proposal I put out there but am still keeping everything crossed. Have, however, had an article published in an art magazine for schools, about links that can be made between art and maths - mathARTmatics - am looking forward to getting a copy to see how it looks in print.

collage buildings

We started making some small (A5) collage houses and shop fronts today ready for a WW2 street scene. We're hoping to make our display interactive and will be updating it as the war progresses ie, we will add blackout curtains and 'tape' to the windows, all metal fixtures and fittings will disappear, 'telegrams' will be delivered to certain houses, barrage balloons will appear over the nearby factories, some buildings will get bombed (replaced with a 'destroyed' collage) etc.