Blog by Tag: Art

Year 4 Fashion and Textiles club are pleased to announce that their butterfly dress is finished and now displayed at Canterbury Christchurch Bookshop!

Our club is being led by one of our Year 6 Art Leaders, Tamsin; we have been designing a butterfly dress inspired by our ‘whole school project’…

A huge thank you to the lovely students from Simon Langton Girls School who visited Years 2 and 3 this week to run amazing work shop sessions as part of their own development and work towards their Art Award. All the children really enjoyed working with the students who were so kind, patient and…

As a Christian school we wish to strengthen and build relationships with other schools and communities. Last week we introduced a group of our pupils to those of Brabourne Church of England School for the first time; our intention is to build and develop a collaborative relationship within the…

Last week, we were very pleased to welcome a local Fashion Designer to our Fashion and Textiles after-school club. Dulcima is a sustainable fashion designer and creator who works from her studio in Barham village; she is also a musician.

Our small Year 4 club is being led by one of our Year 6…

Year one explored fruit and vegetables last term. Within art, the children used their observational skills to draw and paint red peppers.

 As a class, we discussed scale (drawing the peppers larger to fill their A3 paper); oil pastels and how they resist paint (used for the seeds); highlights…

Today, Year 2 boarded their very own flight to Jakarta, which is ( as they will tell you) the capital city of Indonesia. “Go down and turn right,” as one passenger confidently said! When we arrived Year 2 found torrential rain ( there are only two seasons, wet and dry). Once we had splashed around…

Congratulations to Year 2 for being the winners of a competition run by the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh to celebrate he work of Artist, Author and illustrator Emily Sutton. The children learnt a little about Emily and her work and then wrote about one of their toys and why it was special to…

We hope that the families of Year 2 have enjoyed their clay rats? these delightful creatures were made by Year 2 as part of their Art project linked to Science; Animals including humans and English ‘That Pesky Rat’ in Term 3. the children studied texture and how to create a ‘furry’ look to their…

Year 4 are delighted to share with you our cross-curricular project inspired by the life and work of Faith Ringgold, an African American female artist and author.

Our current display in the Year 4 corridor is of our own ‘story-quilts, a title used by Faith to describe her own particular form of…

A big thank you to Creative Folkestone for running an Art workshop for Hazel class last week. The children worked with two local artists, Emily and Tania, who delivered the workshop: Character making, storytelling and performance.

The children began the morning by discussing storytelling…

In term 3, Year 6 designed and made sculptures depicting the human figure in motion. To begin the project, pupils explored the proportions of the human figure and drew from wooden mannequins. They then sketched from movement on film (running, dance, skipping etc).

 As a class, we studied the…

Throughout term 3, Year R have been exploring Fairytales; within art, the children have been learning how to join materials and create collages.

We began the project by looking at and discussing the paintings and collages by Henri Matisse. Each class then made their own collaged fairytale…