Blog by Tag: Art

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.  

Artistic Egyptians  in Year 3 get creative.

Ancient Egypt comes to Brookside as year 3 discover

the ancient art of making papyrus paper.

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.

Year 3 recreate Stone Age cave drawings.

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.

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

We compared our work to other artists such as Modigliani. 

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. 

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.

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

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. 

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!