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28 November 2025

Collograph Printing


 

Oak Class were inspired by the work of Teis Albers and created their own Collograph plates, which they used to make prints. We carefully selected galactic looking colours in preparation for adding our futuristic sketches to the final pieces next week!

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21 November 2025

Digital Painting

In our Computing sessions we have been having fun using the IPads and a program called Paintz. We have been experimenting with line and colour. We were inspired by the work of Piet Mondrian to create designs using primary colours! 

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5 November 2025

Bonfire art

Remember, remember the 5th of November!
We talked about bonfire and fireworks safety and created our own bonfire pictures using coloured paper, paint and glitter! 

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4 November 2025

Make your mark

Our art this term is all about line and pattern. We explored different types of line and repeated our favourite experiments to create a whole class piece of work. 

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7 October 2025

Painting with Depth: Willow Class Masters Tints and Shades

Willow Class has been diving into the amazing world of colour theory, and we've discovered a fantastic way to make our artwork jump right off the page: tints and shades! This skill is a fundamental building block for artists and is key to making flat drawings look three-dimensional (3D).

Mixing…

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15 May 2025

Canvas Art!


 

Mary Howard continued with their Kandinsky inspired artwork. The children used wax crayons and water pastels to create their colourful canvases!

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15 May 2025

Class Two: Spirited Arts

Well done to Class Two for the creativity you have displayed in the process of designing and creating your art pieces for the Spirited Arts competition. Class Two’s theme is ‘Thinking about God’. They have worked really hard on displaying their own, personal understanding and visions of…

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9 May 2025

Kandinsky Art!


 

Mary Howard continued with their Tamworth Arts project this week by using paint to apply their Kandinsky inspired circles to their canvases. Next, the children will begin creating patterns using a variety of bright colours in the style of our focus artist!

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1 May 2025

Kandinsky Art!

In preparation for this year’s Tamworth Arts Festival, the children began their unit of learning about the artist, Wassily Kandinsky. We learned about the artist, explored famous pieces of art work he has produced and began experimenting with the use of circles and patterns using wax crayon.…

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10 April 2025

Class Two: Sculptures

 

Today Class Two designed and created 3D sculptures! 

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2 April 2025

Texture collages

Inspired by the work of artist Romare Bearden we experimented with colour and texture. Then we used the collage pieces to create a picture, cutting and ripping the prints to overlap layers! 

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13 March 2025

Creating texture

We have been busy creating texture tiles using paint and a range of materials. Next week we will put them together to create collages. 

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