30 Sep

It's All Greek to Me!

Y4 have spent the day learning about Ancient Greek Legacies of language, theatre and architecture.

 

The children worked together to build a model version of the Parthenon and complete a drama about the Ancient Greek Gods of Olympus.  

18 Jul

Ancient Egypt

Artistic Egyptians  in Year 3 get creative.

13 Jul

Scroll me over

Ancient Egypt comes to Brookside as year 3 discover

the ancient art of making papyrus paper.

24 May

Collages in art

Year 3 have been making collages of Ziraffe Girrafe. We are learning abuot this story in literacy. Ziraffe was given as a present to France in 1827.

17 Feb

Stone Age Art

Year 3 recreate Stone Age cave drawings.

6 Dec

The life and art of Henri Matisse

Year 3 have been learning about both local artists and more established artists from long previous Centuries.

Here is some work about French artist Henri Matisse.

2 Dec

Portraits in a sketchbook

In Year 1 we have been exploring portraits through drawing and painting.

We compared our work to other artists such as Modigliani. 

2 Dec

Portraits

Year 1 have been creating portraits using drawing, painting and collage skills.

The children gave themselves a hat for the season in which they were born. 

11 Nov

Remembrance day reception

Reception have been learning all about the importance of of Remembrance day. Using a paint app on the ipads we used our skills to draw poppies. We learnt why Poppies are important to help us remember all the soldiers.

 

11 Nov

We Will Remember

Children used different shading techniques to create our artwork as part of our Remembrance Day activities.

 

 

4 Nov

Food Collages

Today, the children learnt about the importance of 'Rainbow foods' in our diet and were encouraged to try new foods.  The children had lots of fun creating food collages inspired by the Italian artist, Guiseppe Arcimbaldo. 

 

4 Nov

A tribute to Henri Matisse

Year 3 have been studying the art of Henri Matisse. As a tribute to his famous collage 'The snail' we created our own collage animals. Enjoy!