This half term Year 5/6AT worked with Claire Sotow to create cushions for everyone to use in the outdoor classroom.

Over the past few days in Year 5/6AT we have been thinking about the marks that we leave on our planet.

Over the past few weeks, Year 5 / 6AT have been working hard to collect pots, tubs and yoghurt pots and eventually all their recycling efforts have come to fruition.

Miss Fothergill's class have been on a hunt, looking for different plants and insects that live around our school. We decided that we would like to try and make an insect using natural materials. So we went outside and collected lots of natural materials. We collected stones, sticks, leaves, pebbles, petals and lots more. Then we went back into the classroom and made some fantastic creations.
Can you guess what these insects are?

Following our visit from Pippa Bell we have collected lots of natural materials and created our own land art. Tell us what you think. Can you guess what animals we made?

Our topic for this half term is 'A World without Flowers'We have been up to all sorts of exciting stuff. We are having a bean growing competition, growing food that we can eat (mint and parsley) and we even had a visit from Pippa Bell. She showed us lots of pictures of the different seasons of the year, we had to be art detectives and find clues to guess the season. It was very interesting.

Mrs Nugent was definitely inspired. She cut up a picture of Van Gogh's painting of 'The Sunflowers' then she gave us all a bit to copy using pastels and paint. Then we put all of our pieces together like a big jigsaw to reproduce the famous painting. What do you think?

This term Y5/6AT have being studying the works of a selection of famous French artist. So far they have concentrated on Henri Matisse and Georges Seurat.

Pippa Bell came to excite and inspire Year 1 and Year 2 last week.She showed us how to link art with science and how to use Mother Nature to create some fantastic paintings,collages and sculptures.She gave the children lots of ideas to try out and today we all made some land art from objects that we collected from the school grounds.

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Once we had collected lots of twigs,stones,grasses and leaves we went back to the classroom and made lots of pictures based on nature. Kieran made a bird, Shannon made a tree and a flower and Billy made a snake in the grass.Everybody in the class made something wonderful and I took lots of photos !If only I could work out how to put the photos on to this website,you could all have a look at what we did!