The Arts

The Year of the Dragon

9 February 2024

The nursery class has been learning about Chinese New Year. We loved making puppets, decorations and our own huge dragon! We had…

Nursery The Arts

Shadowology in Art

9 February 2024

Year 5 have been exploring light and dark through the work of Vincent Bal. He adds doodles to the shadows of everyday…

Miscellaneous The Arts Year 5

Shadow art in Y5

7 February 2024

Year 5 have been looking at how artists like Banksy and Barbara Hepworth use light and dark in their work. We used…

Miscellaneous The Arts Year 5

Jackson Pollock Artwork

2 February 2024

The nursery children have been creating their own artwork inspired by Jackson Pollock’s famous ‘drip technique’ paintings. We looked at examples of…

Nursery The Arts

Colour Workshop

1 February 2024

Kevin from the Laing Art Gallery visited us today. We talked about colours, found our favourite colours around the classroom and talked…

Nursery The Arts

Learning about Sikhism with our visitor.

23 January 2024

Jaswinder Singh from the North East Sikh Service visited our school. He spent time with Years 3, 4 and 5. He explained…

Miscellaneous The Arts Year 3 Year 4 Year 5

Historians in Year 5

23 January 2024

We took part in a workshop with Durham University, learning all about Ancient Greece. We became archaeologists and investigated different artefacts. We…

Miscellaneous The Arts Year 5

Henri Matisse

12 January 2024

Year 2 have started looking at their new artist Henri Matisse. The children did a warm up first, creating darker and lighter…

The Arts Year 2

Festive watercolours in Year 5.

22 December 2023

We used colour washes to paint a landscape at sunset for our calendars. Article 29

Miscellaneous The Arts Year 5

Gorgeous Self Portraits

20 December 2023

We’ve been working on our chiaroscuro skills in art, meaning ‘the use of strong contrasts between light and dark’. We tried applying…

The Arts Year 3