Art and Design

Stickman

This week our story of the week was Stick Man. The children enjoyed a range of creative activities inspired by the story. They made their own special sticks by carefully wrapping colourful wool around them, and they also created bird feeders using Cheerios and pipe cleaners to help look after the birds in our garden. We painted wonderful Stick Man pictures and spent time talking about Stick Man’s family, leading to lovely conversations about the people who make up our own families. It has been a week full of creativity, imagination, and meaningful discussions.

Speech activity

Developing listening skills to follow and instruction.

Painting in Art

Today we did the Make task in our Art for this term. We got to choose between Henri Rousseau and Beatriz Milhazes.

Some of us chose Henri Rousseau. First, we looked at his jungle paintings and noticed his bright colours, bold shapes, and the way he layered plants to make the scene look deep and mysterious. Then we designed our own jungle pictures, adding leaves, animals, and patterns just like Rousseau. We used our imagination to make our artwork feel magical, just like his.

The rest of us chose Beatriz Milhazes. We looked at how she uses bright colours, bold shapes, and repeating patterns to make her art feel lively and joyful. Then we created our own designs using circles, swirls, and colourful layers. We experimented with patterns and chose vibrant colours to make our artwork stand out, just like Milhazes’ energetic style.

Gustav Klimt

In art today we made our own drawing using techniques used by the famous artists Gustav Klimt.

Art – Research

The children completed excellent research on our artist Yayoi Kasuma this afternoon.

Bonfire night 🎆

Our Nursery children had a wonderful time creating fantastic Bonfire Night pictures using glitter glue, paints, and loose parts to make bright, sparkling fireworks. They enjoyed watching a firework display and an information video to learn more about how people celebrate Bonfire Night. Afterwards, the children talked together about how to stay safe when watching fireworks and sparklers. It was a fun, creative, and colourful week full of excitement and learning!

Gustav Kilmt

Today we started a new topic in Art. We did some research on a very famous artist called Gustav Kilmt born in 1862, from Austria. We discussed what type of art he was known for these were things like landscapes , and portraits .He used different styles like repeated patterns and swirls in his artwork.

Diwali celebrations in Nursery🕯️

This week, our Nursery children have been learning about Diwali, the Festival of Lights. They explored the celebration by creating beautiful patterns and decorating their own Diya lamp paper plates with bright colours, glitter, and sequins. The children enjoyed talking about light, colour, and celebration, helping them to learn more about different traditions and festivals from around the world.

The Rainbow Fish 🐠

This week we have been reading The Rainbow Fish, the children designed their own fish and put their very own shiny scales on just like the story.

Busy Bee’s 🐝

In Busy Bee’s the children took part in a step by step drawing activity, they all worked really hard and were super supportive about their friends artwork.

Family houses

This week we’ve been exploring our own family histories, inspired by the story Owl Babies, which celebrates the comfort of family and belonging. The nursery children talked about the people who are important to them and how families can be the same or different over time.

Using lolly sticks, they carefully built little houses and then drew their families inside, sharing stories about parents, grandparents, and siblings. It was a lovely way to connect our learning about families in the past and present while celebrating what makes each home special.

Art

This term we are looking at Van Gogh. We have enjoyed researching all of his past creations and looking into his history. We have been using a variety of techniques including brushes and investigating the kinds of marks which can be made.

All About Me!

All About Me!
Our nursery children have been celebrating everything that makes them special. We shared stories and conversations about ourselves—our faces, favourite things, and what makes each of us unique.

Using natural treasures from our garden walk that we found, we created fantastic faces using leaves, twigs, and stones from the garden to create beautiful self-portraits. Inspired by Billy and the Big New School, they explored different facial expressions and how our feelings can show on our faces by sticking and gluing different facial expressions on to portraits pictures.

To finish our “all about me” adventure, everyone designed a delicious pancake face using breakfast items and fresh fruit—smiles you could eat! What a wonderful way to learn about who we are while being creative, curious, and proud of ourselves.

Marvellous Me – Nursery Diversity Day

In Nursery this week, we explored the story Marvellous Me! The children enjoyed thinking about what makes them special and unique. Using mirrors, they carefully looked at their features and created wonderful self-portraits. We finished by talking together about all the reasons why we are marvellous – from being kind friends to trying our best every day!

Art portraits

The class studied the work of Julian Opie today before creating their own self-portraits in the same style.

Art: Gustav Klimt

This week Reception explored the artwork of Gustav Klimt and how he used lots of different shapes and patterns within his art. The children had a go at creating their very own art work inspired by the artist.

ART

Class 2 have really enjoying learning all about sculptures. We started with researching about a local artist Andy Edwards who created many sculptures round Liverpool. We then enjoyed designing and creating our own sculpture, making sure we took our time with the clay.

Street Art

Class 6 have been learning all about graffiti art and this morning we took a tour to look at some local artwork. We talked about the artwork, the artists and the messages we thought the artwork was giving us. We then created some work in pairs to show which pieces we liked and write our own opinions of why we liked them.

Art

Today in art we went outside and looked for natural objects. We made a picture of using the natural objects.

Art: Observational pictures

Reception class enjoyed a lovely outdoor learning session in the school garden. Armed with clipboards and pencils, the children observed the plants, flowers, and insects around them and created wonderful drawings based on what they saw. It was a great opportunity to explore nature and practise their observational skills in a fun, hands-on way.

Crosby beach – Antony Gormley

We went to see Antony Gormley exhibition “ Another Place” in Crosby beach.

Stay and Play with our families 🎨 🧩

Our families joined us to play, we explored the nursery and the children were able to show their families what new things they have learnt and currently learning about.

Art: Garden Inspiration 🌱

Reception have been drawing some fantastic pictures this week in Art of our garden area, the children have had a look around our garden and we have taken pictures of the areas and then drawn pictures of what we can see from the pictures. The pictures turned out brilliant.

Figures in Art

After beginning our research on Anthony Gormley, we have been inspired to make our own figures using similar techniques with wire and clay. We thought about different positions we could bend our wire bodies into, taking photographs of our friends to use as a reference.

Photography

Class 2 really enjoyed our art topic on photography. We tried to create our own photographs using natural resources we found round our school grounds. We enjoyed placing objects on special paper and exposing the paper to sunlight, created blue images called cyanotypes.

RE: Special places.

This term Reception are looking at special places within different religions, this week Reception explored what a special place for a Muslim was and they looked around a Mosque online to see what a special place it is and why people go to mosques. The children the coloured in some beautiful prints that can be found in a mosque.

Forest School at LJMU

Reception were invited to a forest school session at Liverpool John Moores and the children had so much fun some of the activities they did included creating clay creatures and building dens with students who are training to be teachers.

Illustration session at Sefton Park Library

Art: Vincent Van Gogh

This term Reception explored the artist Vincent Van Gogh and his amazing paintings, the children explained what they they liked or didn’t like about the paintings and then the children had a go at creating their own pictures and paintings inspired by Vincent Van Gogh.

World Book Day

For world book day this year Reception read the story ‘A Seeds Grows’ which is a non-fiction story about how seeds grow from a seed and germinate to push through the soil to grow into a wonderful flower. The children created a poster about a lifecycle of a flower and what flowers need to grow. the children also created some fantastic flower pictures and some paper flower crafts.

Art – final pieces of work

The class completed their plaster cast sculptures this afternoon! The children moulded their clay then plaster of Paris was poured. After the pieces had set, the finishing touches of paint were added!

Art – sketching

The class continued their art topic this afternoon, making sketches of natural objects such as shells, pine cones and fruit!

RE: Special Places

In RE Reception have been learning all about special places, this week they have learnt about churches and what inside a church looks like, the children created some fantastic stained glass windows inspired pictures.

Reception have also learnt about Ramadan this week and celebrate the beginning of Ramadan the children created some beautiful lanterns.

Children’s Mental Health Week

Reception has celebrated Mental health week with lots of activities this week.

The children have created some fantastic faces and explained what emotions the faces are making.

The children have also created some kind notes to each other and put them in our kindness jar, the children then read the kind messages out to their friends.

Lunar New Year🐍

Reception have enjoyed learning all about Lunar new year this week, they created some fantastic lanterns and has lots of fun activities to explore. The children really enjoyed exploring the gelibaff and creating patterns on snakes.

Art

We have loved our William Morris topic and were very impressed with our finished prints. We evaluated our own work and the work of ours, commenting on the designs, print quality and colour choice.

Jenny Berry art🎨

The children explored the artist Jenny Berry, they looked at different images of Jenny Berry’s art, and they were influenced to create their very own under the sea art. Our theme for this term is under the sea and this ties with our English story “The Storm Whale”.

Drawing and Printing

As our Art topic has progressed some of us have spent time before school drawing natural objects and experimenting with different media. In our art lesson, we experimented with pens and pencils to make marks in polystyrene before completing a test print. We can’t wait to finish our final pieces!

Out of the Blue art club

Consequences parlour game

Young Artists

Class 6 are using various ways to draw on inspiration for our William Morris led designs. We are using real plants, artificial plants, online ideas and our own imagination to build our design. We are bringing them to life using different mediums and techniques.

Diversity Day Spring 1

This term for diversity day Reception explored the word “incredible” the class discussed what they think the word means, then listened to the story about how sometimes we might feel we want to be a different person when in fact we are just as incredible as we are. The children discussed what makes them incredible and they created some fantastic rainbows to celebrate their individuality.

Festive Fun

Reception has had lots of festive fun this week, creating lots of different crafts and decorating biscuits in our family stay and play.

Final Out of the Blue club

The children put their characters and backgrounds into a book.

Out of the Blue art club

continuing character profiles and settings

Out of the Blue art club

Creating creatures, animals for a story board.

Light and Dark!

Reception have been learning all about light and dark in Science, exploring why in the day it light and why it is dark at night time. The class discussed all about the sun and the moon and what items give off light such as torches. The children had a go at using torches to explore shadows and finding items in the dark.

Reception created some fantastic night sky pictures using paint, glitter and their scissor skills. Reception answered questions about what they might see in the night sky such as the moon and stars.

Art

Final pieces. Inspirations from Henri Rousseau and Beatriz Milhazes

Listen and Appraise

The class enjoyed the more upbeat sounds of Louis Jordan this afternoon, with the strangely titled ‘Ain’t nobody here but us chickens’.

Out of the Blue

Creating self-portraits using various types of papered using different skills and effects such as twisting, tearing, scrunching, and slicing.

Out of the Blue

Creating light effects on objects

Out of the Blue Art Club

This week the children enjoyed creating self portraits using a variety of materials. It was great to see lots of creativity and artistic talent on show.

Juniper Jupiter!

This term Reception have been focusing on the story Juniper Jupiter by Lizzy Stewart, the children have loved learning about Juniper Jupiter and her sidekick Peanut! The children received a letter from Juniper Jupiter asking if the children could create a poster as to become her sidekick whilst Peanut is unwell. The children created some fantastic drawings of themselves being superheroes and explained what their superpowers would be.

Out of the Blue art club

Developing art in response to music

Out of the Blue Art club

Developing different skills are artists and using a range of media.

Seasons changing activities 🍁

Reception have been exploring seasonal changes this week, they have discussed about the season of autumn and what changes. Outside Reception loved looking for autumn leaves that have fallen from the trees. To further explore this we created faces out of autumn natural resources and used cotton buds to create autumn pictures.

Out of the Blue

The children looked closely at the Blue Coat Building over the years

Superhero Crafts

This term Reception are learning about the story ‘Juniper Jupiter’ in English. The children have explored lots of superheroes and we have been very crafty this week, creating our very own superhero lolly sticks and superhero masks.

DT Cooking

We have loved tasting vegetables and pasta salads to give us some ideas for our own designs.

Self-portraits

We researched the artist Roy Liechtenstein and looked at his style of art work. We created our own Pop Art self-portraits.

Portraits

The class began some fantastic portraits this afternoon, in the style of the pop artist Julian Opie!

Diversity Day in Nursery – Autumn 1

In Nursery we read the story “The Colour Monster Goes to School”.

We discussed a range of emotions, the children described how they feel and created their own monsters.

Out of the blue

The children began designing sculptures to represent them or school.

Gustav Klimt

This term in Art reception have been looking at the artist Gustav Klimt, the children explored the artists brilliant masterpieces, the children were fascinated by the different colours, designs and textures of the artwork. The children were inspired to create their own artworks using Gustav Klimt’s work to guide them. Reception did a fantastic job.

Out of the blue

continuation of the children’s festival work

Forrest School Club

This week in club we used the early years outdoors to collect natural objects, then we used our resources to create some natural art.
The children were very proud of their creations.

RE: Our Special World🌎

This term reception is learning about “what makes our world special?” in RE, the children in reception have explored natural resources and describing them with this classmates. The children, explained what they liked and did not like about the natural resources, some of the children explained that they liked the stones because they felt smooth or the mushroom because it felt furry.

The children had so much fun exploring the natural objects from around our garden, we collected some of the objects and brought them inside to create beautiful sun catchers, we used recycled plates, sticky back plastic and our natural objects. Then the children loved decorating them to make them sparkly and beautiful.

Tuesday 18th June 2024 ‘Out of the Blue’

Designing and making a 2d maps and 3D models of a festival. To be continued next week.

Art – sculptures

The children produced some amazing sculptures this week as the class ended their art topic!

Art

We collected some natural objects and created our own piece of art work. We tried hard to design work in the style of Richard Long.

Tuesday 11th June ‘Out of the Blue’

This week the class learnt about comic strips and created storyboards.

Computing 💻

Reception took a visit to our lovely computer room this week, the children were so sensible at finding a laptop, opening the screen and turning on the power button. The children had a go at moving the mouse on the keyboard. Reception then had a practice of using the mouse to make some art on the app ‘paint’, the children practiced clicking the button and using the trackpad to draw, it was a bit tricky but they had fun learning how to use the computer.

Out of the Blue

Tim Spooner was the focussed artist this week.

Out of the Blue

This week the class created some fabulous abstract art.

Seasonal Change Walk?☀️

Today Reception explored the school gardens looking for signs of seasonal change, they first planned which route they would walk around the gardens following directions. Then Reception examined the different plants and even saw some animals in the gardens. They loved seeing how much they have grown. After Reception had looked at the plants, vegetables and bugs they drew a picture to show what seasonal change they had found, some children drew trees that now had beautiful green leaves on and some children drew bugs and flowers.

Out of the Blue art club

Drawing and designing self- portraits to give people an understanding of who we are.

Lifecycles

In science Reception have loved exploring different lifecycles of animals, they started by exploring lifecycles of frogs, Reception enjoyed exploring an indoor ‘pond with frogs’. Reception cut and stuck the correct order of the frogs lifecycles after learning all about their lifecycle.

This week Reception have been learning all about butterfly lifecycles, exploring the way a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, they have decorated their very own beautiful butterflies. In art Reception have been exploring mixing water colours and using pipets to make a painting, Reception have used cotton pads to create a lovely caterpillar.

Out of the Blue

A fantastic art club that the children of Pleasant Street are enjoying enormously delivered by The Bluecoat.

Out of the Blue

The children enjoyed their second ‘out of the blue’ art lesson.

Art

Class 3 have been working super hard designing and making their buildings.

Art Sculptures

Today we finished our sculptures inspired by Antony Gormley’s Another Place.
It is so fantastic to see all of our designs come to life.

Out of the Blue art club

The children learnt the history of Bluecoat and Pleasant Street Primary School. Some children dress up in old fashioned uniform. The children then designed their own uniform and some got to share with the group. Amazing ideas and designs!!

Creating ladybirds

To continue our science work learning about mini beasts class 7 made ladybirds.

Artwork in the style of Antony Gormley

In art we have been studying the sculptor Antony Gormley.

We took pictures of our own poses and sketched the ones we want to use for our final design.

Walk along Hope street

Class 3 enjoyed walking along Hope Street looking and taking pictures of different architecture.

World Book Day

Reception celebrated world book day by reading the story Little Red Riding Hood this year, we had a fun day with lots of different activities such as role playing the story and sequencing the story in to order, we also made our own little red riding hoods.

City Photography

The children took some wonderful photographs this week for their Art topic, looking at landmarks, objects or patterns around the city centre before choosing and editing their final choices.

Photography walk

The children enjoyed a fantastic afternoon taking photographs of objects, patterns and places of interest, as part of their Art topic.

Art research

Thank you to Ms Kurs today, who spoke to the class about photography!

Art research

The children were excited to start their Art topic this afternoon, looking at different types of cameras and discussing their uses.

Art

During art we have been researching Henri Matisse and looking at his style of work. We enjoyed using oil pastels to create the background for our final design.

Art Work

In art class 6 have been researching different artists from Claire Caulfield to Lowry and their interpretations of urban areas. We took some pictures of local areas and today we are using skills we have learnt to draw them from our own perspectives.

Diversity Day – The Colours of Us

For diversity day we read a lovely story called “the colours of us”, we discussed the colours of people’s skin and how it makes us unique and we then created self portraits.

Art Work

This afternoon in art, we have been working on our final piece. We have been layering our art by applying a foreground over our background.