Art and Design

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.