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21st December 2018

Starry Night

Art club explored Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’, producing their own interpretations of aspects of the painting. We also had fun making our glittering stars for the display. We had a go at ‘taking a line for a walk’ on a small piece of paper. We selected one colour and experimented using different shades of the...
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21st December 2018

Inspiring Artists

Mrs Macmillan kindly donated this wonderful to school. It now has pride of place in our Art Gallery, along with some photos of her other sculptures. What a lovely piece of art work that i’m sure will inspire others in school to make a sculpture.
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26th October 2018

‘Mud Hands Circle’

We had a look at a a picture by the artist Richard Long  called ‘Mud Hands Circle’. We decided to create our own pictures based on his work. We started our project by mixing soil with water and making some very sticky concoctions indeed! The children loved making different consistencies with the mud , getting...
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19th January 2018

Flags of the World

We’ve started the new term looking at “Flags of the World”. Our artists each chose a few flags to paint, carefully looking at the shapes, colours and patterns. We’re going to make some new bunting with the flags for the Art Gallery, which will really brighten things up (especially during the cold weather!).  
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3rd November 2017

365 penguins

Over the past few weeks we have been building our own junk model vehicles. we explored using axles to help the wheels move freely. One of our artists made a burger van complete with bread, cheese, lettuce and seeds on the top. Today we have welcomed some more artists to the group. We’ve made a...
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26th May 2017

Mindfulness Patterns

We had a very relaxing time in Art Club last week, colouring ‘ Mindfulness’ patterns. This week, we have been looking at paint charts. Our artists mixed their own special shades of paint, and came up with some wonderful names for them. We had delights such as pearly brown, limetastic, pink express and raspberry kisses....
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31st March 2017

Autumn Display

We have finished our Autumn display in the Art Gallery. We used our hands and arms to print the trunks and branches of our trees, and finger painted Autumn leaves. Miss Roen brought in some dried fennel, which we put up on our display. Can you smell it as you walk through the Gallery? We...
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31st March 2017

Sapphire Jubilee

We’ve celebrated Her Majesty’s “Sapphire Jubilee” in Art Club. Our artists designed some celebratory cards to send to Her Majesty – we’re hoping to hear back from the Queen soon. We also pretended to be Kings and Queens and designed our own crowns. We then posed for an “official portrait” and made frames for them....
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31st March 2017

Marble Mazes

Art Club children were fascinated by our ‘Marble Run’ game, so we decided to make our own giant mazes. We worked in groups and tested our mazes. We’ve put a book of photographs in the Art Gallery to show everyone how we made them. We then each made our own marble run mazes. We used...
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31st March 2017

Year of the Rooster

Art Club had fun making “Chinese Dragon” puppets. We followed instructions to thread material, tie knots and create a fringed effect on our dragons. We also used them to make shadows on our whiteboard. 2017 is the “Year of the Rooster”, and falls on the 28th January this year. “Roosters” are hardworking and confident. We’ll...
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