Art: Blog items
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 8:15pm
As part of a whole school Art Day, Nursery created some wonderful portraits inspired by the story The Dot. We listened to the story and talked about creating pieces of art from a simple mark on the paper. Each year group were given a different colour to work with and ours was pink. The children were all given a circle and asked to create a self-portrait on their dot. The results were outstanding!
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 9:07am
Today, we had an exciting art lesson inspired by the story 'The Dot'! We all started by drawing our self-portraits within a circle, using our best sketching skills. It was so much fun to see everyone’s creative ideas come to life! Then came the best part: painting with watercolours in different shades of yellow. We learned to mix white with yellow and even a bit of gold to create fantastic tones. The classroom lit up with all the bright yellows! I can’t wait to see the masterpieces put on display in school for everyone to admire. Well done, Year 3!
Date: 23rd Apr 2025 @ 5:15pm
Year 4 completed art work based on the story 'The Dot' which was told to us in assembly.
The children used ideas from Kandinsky to form patterns focusing on line and colour.
The children then drew their portraits on larger circles and used one colour to show depth by using tint, tone and shade.
Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 8:50pm
The whole school created some wonderful art work inspired by the book "The Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds and the artist Wassily Kandinsky. The story "The Dot" explores the idea that anyone can be an artist by starting with a small mark on a piece of paper. Each year group were given a single colour to work with and then created a self-portrait on one circle and patterns on another. To add depth and contrast, the children explored tints, hues and shades and added texture using different marks and lines. The circles are going to be used to create our very own Boundary Dot display.
Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 4:42pm
Inspired by the book 'The Dot' by Peter Reynolds and the work of abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944), pupils have created their own artwork using a single colour to create a self-portrait within a dot. This required a variety of skills including sketching, colour mixing and painting. Pupils were asked to consider colour, tone and hue when completing their final piece. Soon, the artwork will be combined with work from other year groups and displayed around the school.
Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 4:28pm
Today, we participated in Art Day based upon the book 'The Dot' inspiring that anyone can be an artist by starting with a mark. First, we explored making a portrait focusing on practicing how to draw our key features and drew them on an orange dot as this was our colour of focus. Finally, this afternoon we explored creating patterns using three colours: red, orange and yellow.
Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 2:26pm
We began our new half term by reading the story 'The Dot.' We talked about the message in the story and the characteristics the character shows. We then painted a background on our circles, before creating two different dots. One showed a self portrait of ourselves and on the other we created a pattern dot using oil pastels and felt tips.
Nursery and the Elephant Trunks
Date: 1st Apr 2025 @ 5:04pm
We have throughly enjoyed reading zoo stories over the past two weeks inlcuding "Poo in the Zoo" and "Dear Zoo". After exploring elephant poo, we decided to make our own elephants. Mrs Welch found a super idea using a party blower as the elephants trunk. The children spent time carefully collaging their elephants before being given the ultimate elephant trunk! The children had a wonderful time blowing the party blowers and pretending to be elephants. It was quiet tricky to get a sound out of the party blower and the children had to practise before managing to create a super loud sound! By the end of the day, Mrs Welch wasn't sure it was such a wonderful idea and went home with a headache!
Date: 1st Apr 2025 @ 11:56am
What a great half term of art for Year 4. We have been exploring a number of different mediums this half term all with a 'Feast' theme. We have made and painted clay foods and we have also created a communal picnic of foods.
Date: 19th Mar 2025 @ 8:33pm
The children have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the life of a frog and we're hoping to see some tadpoles emerging from the frogspawn soon! Learning about frogs led us on nicley to exploring colour mixing and how to make green to paint our frogs. The children learnt that yellow and blue make green and how you can make different shades of green by adding more yellow or blue to the mixture.
Date: 12th Mar 2025 @ 9:18am
This year, Boundary took part in the Young Seasiders competition. We submitted nearly 30 entries, from across the school, and are very pleased to announce that Gouri (Year 3) and Ellie-Mae Year 6, have been chosen as our school winners!
All entires will be displayed at the exhibition located at the Blackpool School of Arts and can be viewed by the public from 4th March until 29th March.
Nursery get in to Bubbly Troubly!
Date: 4th Mar 2025 @ 5:10pm
We have really enjoyed reading another Supertato adventure - Supertato Bubbly Troubly! This time the Evil Pea cause chaos by swapping normal bubbles for bubbles that cause trouble! The children created their own bubbly trouble by seeing who could blow the biggest bubble mountain and then making a picture! They did this by using a mixture of water, food colouring annd washing up liquid and then creating a print from the bubble on paper. It was a lot of bubbly fun!
Year 1 How We Treat The Natural World
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 7:02pm
Today we brought all our learning for this half term together to reflect on how we each treat the natural world. We recapped on the key vocabulary associated with Islam and used it accurately to contribute to our whole class learning today. Throughout today lesson we thought about rules that we could implement in our local area to make the environment better in our community. We also painted a picture to show our own beliefs and values about how the natural world should be.
Date: 10th Feb 2025 @ 11:26am
Today we enjoyed celebrating our 100th day at school! We began our day with learning about our theme for the day, before completing lots of different 100 related activities. We practised subtracting with jelly beans, did 100 warm up activities in PE, created 100 monsters and counted different objects up to 100!
Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 1:33pm
Reception has been celebrating the Chinese New Year. We read the book The Chinese New Year Race and learned how every animal earned their place in the Chinese zodiac, made Chinese dragons, Chinese lanterns and took part in our very own Chinese dragon dance.
"The rat won the race- he climbed on the ox's back" Kayden.
"This year it is the year of the snake" Kevin.
"I like rice and sweet and sour sauce... that's Chinese food" Matilda
Acorns - Artic animals and habitats
Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 12:55pm
This week Acorns have continued their learning about Arctic animals with a focus on polar bears. We have enjoyed listening to 'What the polar bear heard' and enjoying multisensory activities about their habitat.
We have loved engaging in the sensory tuff trays with snow and ice, especially making snow storms! We also rescued animals and numbers from frozen ice.
During art we made our own polar bears using different materials and tools. We've had a great week.
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 2:41pm
Nursery explored a different way to paint when they were provided with blocks of ice, paint and paint brushes. We talked about the texture of the ice, how it was hard to paint on it because the ice was slippy and obserevd how the ice began to melt the more we painted on it. The children also enjoyed discovering what happened to the colours as they mixed together and water was added.
Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 4:50pm
Acorns have enjoyed learning the story of Goldilocks and the theee bears this week. We have engaged for short periods of time listening to the story and taking turns with the puppets. We loved the voices of the bears and it made us giggle when Miss Richardson said " who's been sitting in my chair". We enjoyed learning the Goldilocks song and signs and dancing along to it.
In maths we have been exploring the number 3 and big and small, linking with our story.
We have been busy creating bear during arts and crafts and developing ball skills during PE.
Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 4:31pm
Nursery have been learnig all about Winter and as part of our topic the chidlren made 3D snowmen. They had to manipulate the dough to create balls, then attach them together and then add some special features to to make the snowmen their own!
Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 9:01am
Today, we used lots of different things we would find in nature such as leaves, flowers and rocks to create our own patterns. We thought carefully about lines we wanted to create and different shapes we could make by pulling things apart and changing them.
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 9:11am
Today we started our new Art journey by looking at Alice Fox and thinking about how she uses nature to influence her work. We then created a page dedicated to Alice Fox in our sketchbooks. We were inspred by her work, information about her, nature and colours that she would use.
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 11:14am
As the culminaton of our short journey looking at Christianity, we sketched, planned and finished a piece of topographical art linked to the Nativty. We used skills we have learnt in art and geography to create a nativity scene using a map of the Jerusalem and Bethlehem as a centre image.
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 10:59am
Acorns have enjoyed learning about Christmas celebrations and the Nativity over the last few weeks.
Acorns have explored a variety of multisensory activities and experiences to develop their skills and understanding, including turn taking and social skills.
We have enjoyed a Christmas themed 'Bucket' to support our focus and concentration.
In art we have enjoyed recreating the Nativity scene and making Christmas ornaments to take home for our families.
We loved our singalong with our families during stay and play, and exploring signing during our singing.
A highlight was dancing during the Christmas party and a visit from Santa.
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and all the best for the new year.
Acorns team.
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 8:17am
Year 6 have produced some wonderful Christmas artwork this week based on the story of the nativity. We used watercolour paint to create stained glass effects.
Date: 18th Dec 2024 @ 9:52am
This week we completed some RE art to show an important event in the story – the birth of baby Jesus. We used pastels and black paper to create our own art work showing the stable, the manger, baby Jesus and other important characters in the story.
