Art: Blog items
Date: 22nd Oct 2026 @ 3:51pm
Year 5 created detailed poppy artwork using different grades of sketching pencils, charcoal pencils and oil pastels. The children experimented with shading, blending and tone to add depth, texture and contrast to their work, carefully observing the shapes and colours of poppies.
As part of the lesson, the children discussed the significance of 11th November, Remembrance Day, and explored why people wear poppies and take part in acts of remembrance. They learned about the sacrifices made by soldiers and others during times of conflict and reflected on the importance of remembering those who served and gave their lives for their country. Through discussion and art, pupils developed both their artistic skills and their understanding of this important historical event, showing respect, empathy and thoughtful reflection throughout the activity.
Our Art Journey: Exploring Spirals 🌀🎨
Date: 22nd Oct 2026 @ 12:41pm
This half term, Year 1 have been on an exciting art journey exploring spirals. We began by investigating different spiral patterns and discussing where we might see them in the world around us.
The children then looked closely at mandalas, carefully observing and replicating the intricate patterns and shapes they could see. This helped them develop their observational skills and introduced them to the idea of repeated patterns in art.
Next, we explored Vincent van Gogh's famous painting, Starry Night. The children paid particular attention to the swirling spirals and movement within the sky, discussing how the artist used line and shape to create energy and emotion in his work.
Inspired by the artists and artwork they had studied, the children designed their own spiral-themed pieces, incorporating the patterns, movement and creative ideas they had discovered throughout the unit.
To complete their final pieces, the children used scratch art paper and cocktail sticks to create intricate spiral designs. They carefully scratched away the black surface to reveal the vibrant colours hidden underneath, producing some truly stunning effects and incredible detail.
We have been so impressed by the creativity, perseverance and artistic skills shown throughout this project. The finished masterpieces are absolutely fantastic and showcase everything the children have learned on their spiral art journey.
Amazing work, Year 1! 🌟🌀🎨
Year 2 Art: Inspired by Vincent van Gogh 🎨✨
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 2:26pm
In Year 2, we have been learning about Vincent van Gogh, our inspirational artist 😊. We began by creating a one-page spread in our sketchbooks, filled with interesting facts and drawings about his life and artwork 🖼️📖.
Next, we practised some important artistic skills, including shading and experimenting with different sizes and directions of strokes ✏️. The children explored how these techniques can add texture, depth and detail to their artwork, just as Van Gogh did in many of his famous paintings 🌟.
We then challenged ourselves with continuous line drawing, focusing on carefully observing objects and including even the smallest details without lifting our pencil from the page 🖊️👀. The children found this an enjoyable activity, but also discovered that it was a tricky skill to master! Through perseverance and practice, they produced some fantastic pieces of work and showed great determination throughout the lesson 👏✨.
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 2:23pm
Year 1 have made a fantastic start to their exciting Spiral Art Journey! 🌟
To begin our learning, we explored a variety of spirals found in the world around us 🌍🐚🌻. The children carefully observed the different shapes, patterns and sizes of spirals and shared their ideas about where they had seen them before.
Next, we became artists and practised creating our own spirals using a range of materials, including chalk, pencils, crayons, paint sticks and felt-tip pens 🖍️✏️🎨. The children loved experimenting with different media and discovering the unique effects each one created.
To make our artwork even more expressive, we listened to classical music 🎶 while we worked. We discussed how the music made us feel and explored whether it changed the size, shape and movement of our spirals. Some children created large, sweeping spirals, while others drew smaller, more delicate patterns!
It was wonderful to see so much creativity, concentration and imagination on display. We can't wait to continue our Spiral Art journey and see where our artistic adventures take us next! 🌈✨🌀
Date: 12th Oct 2026 @ 6:44pm
Year 5 - Always Time: Dreaming Big with Our Future Selves!
Date: 9th Oct 2026 @ 2:12pm
This week in Year 5, the children enjoyed a creative and thought-provoking Always Time activity that encouraged them to look ahead and think about their futures. The challenge was simple: imagine your future self, consider your hopes, dreams and career aspirations, and then bring those ideas to life using tin foil.
The classroom was soon filled with imaginative creations as children carefully shaped and moulded the foil into representations of their future ambitions. We saw aspiring teachers, footballers, vets, artists, engineers, scientists and even future entrepreneurs! Each sculpture was unique and reflected the children's interests, talents and ambitions.
As well as supporting our careers curriculum, this activity provided an excellent opportunity for children to think about the many possibilities available to them in the future. Through discussion and reflection, they explored the skills, determination and learning that might help them achieve their goals, helping to raise aspirations and encourage positive attitudes towards future careers.
Working with tin foil also helped to develop fine motor skills. Children had to manipulate, pinch, fold and shape the material carefully, strengthening hand muscles and improving dexterity and control. These important skills support many aspects of learning, including handwriting, art and design tasks.
Most importantly, the session gave children the chance to dream big. It was wonderful to hear them talk confidently about their ambitions and celebrate one another's ideas. The creativity, enthusiasm and ambition on display showed that our Year 5 children have exciting futures ahead of them! 🌟
Year 1 Take on GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ Attempt
Date: 8th Oct 2026 @ 3:50pm
What an exciting day for Year 1! 🎉
Today, we joined readers from across the world to take part in an incredible reading challenge organised by the National Literacy Trust and the British Council.
Our children helped take on the challenge of setting a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the most people reading online in 12 hours! 🏆📖
Year 1 loved being part of such a special event, sharing in the joy of reading alongside thousands of other readers. It was a fantastic opportunity to celebrate our love of books while showing the children that reading can connect people all around the world. 🌎❤️
We are so proud of how enthusiastically everyone joined in and how engaged they were throughout the challenge. Reading is such an important part of our learning, and it was wonderful to see the children enjoying books as part of a worldwide event.
Well done, Year 1! Fingers crossed we helped make history! 🤞🏆📚✨
Year 5 - Rivers Come to Life in Our Final Geography Lesson
Date: 7th Oct 2026 @ 1:47pm
To celebrate the end of our Rivers unit, Year 5 pupils took part in an exciting hands-on lesson to consolidate everything they have learned about rivers and their features.
Using the fieldwork data they collected throughout the unit, children worked collaboratively to recreate the River Wyre along our school corridor using chalk, paper, recycled materials and a variety of arts and crafts resources. The impressive model included key river features that pupils had studied, such as the source, meanders, tributaries and mouth, demonstrating their growing understanding of how rivers change from source to sea.
As part of the project, children also reflected on their learning by comparing the River Wyre with the River Trent, identifying similarities and differences in their size, course and surrounding environments. This helped pupils develop their geographical enquiry skills and deepen their understanding of how rivers can vary across the United Kingdom.
The corridor was transformed into a colourful and informative river landscape, showcasing the children's creativity, teamwork and excellent geographical knowledge. It was a fantastic way to conclude the unit and celebrate all the learning that has taken place over the past few weeks.
Date: 1st Oct 2026 @ 4:53pm
Our nursery children have been enjoying the much-loved story We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen. To help bring the story to life and support their storytelling skills, the children made their very own bear puppets using paper bags.
The children carefully decorated their bears, adding ears, eyes and noses before turning them into puppets. They were excited to use their creations to retell the story, acting out the different parts of the adventure and joining in with the familiar repeated phrases.
Using puppets encourages children to develop their language and communication skills, build confidence in speaking, and strengthen their understanding of stories. The children had lots of fun taking their bears on a hunt through swishy grass, splashing rivers and squelchy mud before finally finding the bear!
We are so proud of their creativity and enthusiasm, and it has been wonderful to see them bringing the story to life through imaginative play. 🐻📚✨
Date: 1st Oct 2026 @ 10:11am
This week, the children enjoyed exploring The Colour Monster story and learning about different emotions. We focused on using different colours, facial expressions, symbols and visual cues to support understanding. The children then created their own Mixed Colour Monster using a range of different coloured paint.🎨🌈💛
Year 5 - Always Time: Crazy Maps
Date: 25th Sep 2026 @ 3:21pm
During this week’s Always Time activity, the children enjoyed a creative challenge using pencils to chase kidney beans and pieces of pasta around a sheet of paper. As they moved the objects, they created a range of interesting lines, patterns and “crazy maps”. The activity encouraged creativity, concentration and fine motor control, while providing a fun opportunity for pupils to work independently and celebrate making positive choices throughout the week.
Date: 24th Sep 2026 @ 10:05am
Date: 23rd Sep 2026 @ 9:13pm
This week, the children have been enjoying the wonderful story Owl Babies by Martin Waddell. We explored the story in a variety of fun and hands-on ways that supported learning across different areas of development.
The children strengthened their fine motor skills by using tweezers to pick up and collect "worms" for the baby owls. They also enjoyed retelling the story using props, helping to develop their communication, language and storytelling skills as they remembered the characters and events.
Our creative activities included painting beautiful owls and practising gluing and sticking techniques to make collage owls using a range of materials. The children were very proud of their creations and loved sharing them with their friends.
It has been wonderful to see the children's imagination, creativity and confidence grow as they brought the story of Owl Babies to life! 🦉🍂✨
Date: 23rd Sep 2026 @ 1:06pm
This week, Reception enjoyed exploring the wonderful story Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins. The children loved following Rosie the hen on her journey around the farm while the mischievous fox got into all sorts of trouble trying to catch her. They found the story very funny and enjoyed talking about their favourite parts.
As part of our learning, the children painted pictures of Rosie the hen and the fox, and created colourful collaged foxes using paper plates. At the storytelling table, they retold the story using puppets and small world figures, helping to develop their confidence, language and understanding of the sequence of events.
Outdoors, the children took part in a Rosie’s Walk obstacle course. They used positional language from the story, including around, across, over, past, under and through, as they navigated the course and retold Rosie's adventure. This was a fun way to reinforce their understanding of both the story and key mathematical vocabulary.
It has been a fantastic week of storytelling, creativity and active learning, and the children thoroughly enjoyed bringing Rosie’s Walk to life.
"That sneaky fox kept trying to catch Rosie" Wilhem
"The fox kept getting into trouble =- it was funny!" Olivia
"The fox fell in the pond...and the bees chased him at the end!" Junior
Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 7:53am
Acorns have enjoyed creating handprint monsters this week. We all enjoyed applying paint to our hands and printing. Then we choose different facial features to create our print monsters. Look at our creations!
Date: 17th Sep 2026 @ 5:04pm
Year 3 Explore the Magic of Charcoal
Date: 3rd Sep 2026 @ 9:12am
This week, Year 3 enjoyed an exciting art lesson all about charcoal. We explored how this versatile drawing material can be used to create different effects, textures and tones, helping artists bring their ideas to life.
To inspire our work, we looked closely at the artwork of Laura McKendry and Edgar Degas. We discovered that Laura McKendry often creates beautiful charcoal drawings inspired by the natural world. Her detailed sketches of plants, animals and landscapes showed us how charcoal can be used to capture the beauty and texture of nature.
We also learned about the famous French artist Edgar Degas, who was fascinated by movement. Degas frequently drew ballet dancers and used a variety of charcoal techniques to create a sense of grace, motion and energy in his artwork. We were amazed at how a simple black drawing could appear so full of life.
The children showed great enthusiasm and creativity throughout the lesson. They carefully observed their subjects, thought about texture and movement, and used their new skills to create some wonderful pieces of artwork. It was fantastic to see their confidence grow as they discovered the many possibilities that charcoal offers.
Date: 22nd Jul 2026 @ 4:15pm
During our Art Day, we explored the work of the artists and illustrators Quentin Blake and Inbal Leitner. We looked at some of the books they have illustrated and discussed their different styles and the techniques they use to bring characters and stories to life.
Next, we learned about sculptures and completed a step by step tutorial on how to create animals out of dough. This helped us practise shaping, joining and adding details to our models.
We then looked at a range of existing monster sculptures and shared our opinions about them. We discussed what we liked about the sculptures and what we would change to improve them. This helped us think carefully about design choices and creative ideas.
Using what we had learned, we planned and designed our own unique monster. We drew our ideas and considered features such as colour, shape, texture and expression. Finally, we brought our designs to life by creating our monsters from colourful plasticine. We enjoyed using our imagination and developing our sculpting skills to make creative and original pieces of art.
Date: 10th Jul 2026 @ 2:30pm
We have been learning about where different animals live. Some love in hot places like the desert and some are cold like the Arctic. Some places have lots of trees like the rainforest and some places are grasslands. We had fun cutting out different animals and gluing them onto their different habitats. We also used the interactive white board to match animals with different habitats and play minibeasts games to strengthen our fine motor skills. Some of us have also created our own rock minibeast. What a busy week we have had!
Date: 9th Jul 2026 @ 1:58pm
Year 3 enjoyed a fantastic outdoor learning session, exploring the natural world around them. The children took part in a scavenger hunt, searching for different flowers, smooth and rough surfaces, and a variety of animals. They showed great enthusiasm and curiosity as they investigated their surroundings.
The children then gathered natural resources from outside to create imaginative faces. Their designs were brilliant and incredibly creative, with some children using grass to make hair and adding colourful flowers for extra detail.
To finish the session, we learnt about the work of the artist Andy Goldsworthy and explored some of his nature-inspired artwork. Using natural materials, the children recreated some of his techniques, including stacking, balancing and layering objects. They worked thoughtfully and creatively, producing some wonderful pieces inspired by the natural world.
We were so impressed with the children's teamwork, creativity and enthusiasm throughout the day! 🌿🎨🍃
Date: 3rd Jul 2026 @ 12:07pm
This term Acorns have been learning about all creatures great and small. So far we have been looking at minibeasts. We enjoyed learning about the different minibeasts and looking for them in our outdoor area. In art we created our very own minibeasts habitats.
We are now exploring mega beasts and have begun to collage a variety of larger animals, making choices about the patterned papers to use in our collage.
Have a look at our creations.
Date: 12th Jun 2026 @ 2:14pm
This week, the children explored the story The Three Little Pigs. We read the story together and focused on developing oracy skills by learning and using new vocabulary from the text. The children practised saying sentences using these new words, showing growing confidence in speaking.
At the storytelling table, the children used puppets to retell the story, demonstrating their understanding of the sequence of events and characters.
In the creative area, the children painted a pig and created their own paper plate pigs using collage techniques. They independently selected and attached different materials, building on their fine motor skills and creativity.
In writing, the children wrote simple sentences about the story, using their phonics knowledge and showed increasing confidence in applying their phonetic skills in meaningful contexts.
Date: 19th May 2026 @ 9:54am
Date: 14th May 2026 @ 3:52pm
Year 3 - Art Day - Paint, Cloth, Thread!
Date: 13th May 2026 @ 9:19pm
Year 3 have made an exciting start to their new art topic, Cloth, Thread and Paint, all in one creative day! We explored the work of artists like Alice Kettle and Hannah Rae, discussing how they combine fabric, thread and paint in imaginative ways. The children recorded their ideas and responses in their sketchbooks. We then focused on mark making, looking closely at how artists use different lines and patterns to create texture and movement. The children experimented with their own marks, building confidence and beginning to develop their own artistic style. It was fantastic to see so much creativity and enthusiasm! 🎨
