DoodleBug Workshop

Yesterday we were lucky to have a special visitor. Ian Brealey-the artist who painted our mural, came to school to do art workshops with each class.

He worked with us, and taught us all, step by step,  to draw Wallace from Wallace and Gromit. The techniques he taiught us will be useful for any drawing we do from now on, Mrs Davies definitely learnt some new skills!

Here are some photos of us during the workshop...

Iggy Peck, Architect

Today we read a great book-Iggy Peck, Architect.

It is all about a boy who dreams of becoming an architect. In the book he creates models out of unusual items, including a tower made out of nappies!

At the end of the story he saves his teacher and his whole class by designing a bridge to escape from an island!

We were so inspired by the book that we did lots of exciting activities...

• We drew our own designs of buildings made from food
• We thought about our dream jobs
• We created buildings using only spaghetti and marshmallows
• We painted our own blueprints

What a busy day!

Leave a comment about the book, or about our activities today.

Willow Weaving

In art this term we have been doing lots of different weaving.

On Monday we were lucky to have an expert weaver come in to work with us. With his help we created some fabulous fish, just by weaving willow branches!

London Day

On Monday we had a lovely time at our London Day. We completed lots of exciting activities, including;

• Building the London Eye out of hula hoops and newspaper.
• Making model Beefeaters and Grenadier Guards
• Creating London Symbols from coloured paper
• Creating Buckingham Palace, complete with the Royal Family peering through the windows!
• Building Models of Big Ben 
• Painting London buses and taxis.
• Creating our own London Photo Album on the laptops (see last blog post!)

Here are some photos of our day!

Solar System Models

We have had a great first week learning about space. This week we foccused on our Solar System, and the planets in it. 

We finished the week by working together in groups making models of the solar system. It was a very busy afternoon, but the finished models were absolutely fantastic!

Biscuit Self Portraits

This term in art we have been creating self-portraits in lots of different styles. Mrs Boultbee came up with a brilliant final project for us...

Last week we all decorated biscuits to look like ourselves. we choose different types of biscuits, and differnt coloured icing to reflect our skin tones, we used smarties to give our eye colour, and chose from the resources available to make our hair, and any other features. At the end of the day we ate one biscuit each, and took one home to show to our families. We also left one for Mrs Savage to try!

Here we are with our completed biscuits-just before tasting them!