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Art & Design Chatter

07-11-2025
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07.11.25 – Art – Create street art with meaning

our art topic this term has been street art. We looked at perspective and scaling up. We couldn’t decorate a wall around school as we might get into a little bit of trouble. But watch this space to see if you see our artwork around school soon.

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21-01-2026
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21.01.26 – Art and Craft – creating a clay sculpture

Look at the lovely clay elephant this little learner made today. Fantastic details on the creation with tusks and a long trunk. He chose the colours and painted his sculpture by himself. Great work!

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23-01-2026
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23.01.26 – Art – Recreating art using drama

During our art topic we have been looking at different piece of art work by different artists. Todays artist was John Singer Sargent. Do you think we have managed to recreate it?

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02-02-2026
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02.02.26 – Art Club -Valentine’s Card

Art Club made some wonderful cards today. They made a stamper out of a plastic bag and it made the result look like roses.

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10-02-2026
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09.02.26 – Art Club – Chinese Dragon (Chinese New Year).

Art Club made lovely Chinese dragons to celebrate Chinese New Year. They decorated them in feather and coloured paper.

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10.02.26 – Art – Painting techniques

In art we are painting and today we looked at different painting techniques. We looked at dabbing, washes and stippling. We also used our previous lessons learning about tints and shades to mix white or black.

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10-02-2026
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10.02.26 – Art – Painting techniques

Today we used our tint and shading techniques to learn different painting techniques we can use for our final piece. We practised stippling, washes and dabbing.

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12-02-2026
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12.02.26- Art- Painting skills

In Art, we have been looking at North American artists. We looked at an artist called John Singer Sargent and some of the work that he has produced. Then we had a go at painting in his style. There were some amazing pieces of art. Well done year 5!

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13-02-2026
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13.02.2026

This term in year 3, we have loved stepping back into time to explore pre historic art! We especially enjoyed creating our own paints using natural pigments such as spices . Our learning has been building up to creating our own ‘cave paintings’ using earthy textures and colours.

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13-02-2026
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13.02.26 – Art – Painting

We have been developing our knowledge of different artist throughout our painting topic. We gather ideas and took inspiration from these artists. We these drew a sketch and use different types of media to create our final image.

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27-02-2026
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27.02.26 – Art – Still life painting

Today we completed our art unit which was all focused on painting using tints and shades. As this was our final lesson we had used items from the classroom to create a still life composition. Once we had sketched it we began considering the tints and shades before mixing colours to paint our images.

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