Art & Design

The children enjoyed an afternoon with the residents of Angel Court and a creative writer from The Equal Arts Council. These sessions tie into the everyone’s love of nature. Last week we began with a story about how the trees lose their leaves, this week the sessions continued with a tale about Gret

Year 6 children headed out to the Forest School this week to begin in a block of sessions that have a definite theme running in the background but still follow the guiding principles of the Forest School. Last lesson we stayed in class avoiding the torrential rain and set the scene for the next few

This week, the children in Year 5 were introduced to a new art concept called ‘batik’.  The children completed a reading exercise to find out more information about batik, including how long it has been used for and what countries it originated from. Then, we moved on to investigating how different

Year 6 lead our Nursery children in a Forest School session and demonstrated why this part of our weekly life at Harlow Green is so important. In a formal sense this is why we do it: “The process helps and facilitates more than knowledge-gathering, it helps learners develop socially, emotionally, sp

Our art in Year 6 this term, has involved us sculpting 3D models. We made links to other areas of the curriculum and made clay sculptures of people in Pompeii after the eruption at Vesuvius and art straw models of Olympic sports. The unit started by looking at the work of some famous artists – Henry

During Art, the boys and girls in Year 3 have looked at the work of the artist Julia Lidell. She is a textile artist who produces woven designs. They began by commenting on which pieces they liked the best and identified how her work made them feel before sketching one of her designs. In order to re

The children in class 1B have enjoyed coming to Art Club on  Tuesdays after school.  The pupils enjoyed creating seaside pictures using pastels and crayons and then using collage materials to make their own beach huts.  On one of the sessions, we took advantage of the warm, sunny weather and did

We have had an exciting arrival in Reception this week. Caterpillars have joined our class and they have already started to make their cocoons and we cannot wait to see them transform into butterflies. During the week, the children enjoyed reading ‘The hungry caterpillar’ and discussing the diff

This week Year One have started a new block of work in art.  The children have been observing shells to find different patterns, lines and shapes.  Firstly they looked at  pictures of shells and then carefully tore round them to stick them in their books.  Secondly, using a pencil, everyone drew

Today, the children put their creative skills to the test by creating unique designs inspired by Ancient Baghdad. Last half-term, the children enjoyed putting their talents to practice by designing and creating a tile inspired by Ancient Islam. To add to their existing knowledge, the children had a