Art, craft and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity. A high-quality art and design education should engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. At Marsden Primary School, we value Art and Design as an important part of the children’s entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum. The use of Kapow Primary’s Art and design scheme of work will provide children with the opportunities to develop and extend skills and an opportunity to express their individual interests, thought and ideas. As pupils progress, they should be able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design. They should also know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation.
Last half term, Y5 studied the artist Banksy with Mrs Potter and how art can deliver a message. Using his work as inspiration the children created their own piece art to embody our school motto “Everyone Cares, Everyone Matters”. They each designed an under the sea character promoting inclusion and diversity.
Well done Y5 and Mrs Potter!
Year 5 have creating their own Anglo-Saxon brooches to link their art and history topics. First, they designed them and then used glue and string for the outline of the design. They then covered them in tinfoil and decorated them.
For our Y6 children it was their very last first week back at Marsden. We have been full of busy with maths, English, PE, geography, RE, PSHE and art. Here we are hard at work completing our still life sketching work.
Thank you to everyone who came along to see our whole school annual art gallery.
Every year the children step up and dazzle us with their art skills and this year was no exception. Each class created a 2D and 3D piece to display.
Nursery enjoyed learning all about Diwali, the festival of light. We made our own diya lamps from clay and painted them.
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The children showed off their artistic skills before half term by taking part in our yearly art gallery. Every child completed a 2-d and 3-d piece of art.
A fantastic opportunity to share the skills the children have been developing with their family.
The EYFS children enjoyed participating in a variety of different coronation themed activities yesterday. Dressed in red white and blue we made crowns, had a tea party, created decorations and many more.
Mrs Walton even had the opportunity to make cakes with the Nursery children which were the highlight of the day.
EYFS are always eager to learn new information about the world, especially if it involves a celebration! Last week, we talked all about the Hindu festival Holi which is also called the “Festival of Colour”.
Traditionally, people throw coloured powder at each other however we decided to use a clever piece of technology called Sphero to help us spread colour. First, we squirted different coloured paint on a large white sheet. Then we made Sphero move by controlling a blue spot on the app.
We loved our final Holi masterpiece!
As part of their topic on sculpture, Y4 recycled old plastic bottles to make maracas. They looked at West African instrument designs to inspire their own decorations on the maracas.
Today Year 3 Had a brilliant Stone Age Day. The children all looked fantastic and we had lots of fun. We started our day by crawling through a cave and sitting around a campfire in the classroom.
We then became archaeologists and found some fantastic fossils hidden in the soil. Next we created charcoal cave drawings under the desks as if we were lying in our very own cave.
This afternoon we made Stone Age biscuits and fruit stew and can’t wait to try them!
Finally we hunted for food, some of us even caught a rabbit!
