Art Day – Year 5 Vincent Van Gogh

By L Forster5th July 2016

On Friday the 1st of July, Year 5 had their art day. We looked at the life, art and style of Vincent Van Gogh.

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He is considered one of the greatest painters of all time, but only sold 1 piece of art while he lived.

We learned about his life, before planning and sketching our own versions of Starry Night.

“The Starry Night” – Painted in 1889.

To design our own versions of Starry Night, we wanted to included the night sky, similar to Van Gogh, but we wanted to include local landmarks infront of the sky. We decided on some of the following landmarks: Penshaw Monument, Tyne Bridge, Arbeia, Angel of the North and Souter Lighthouse.

First we sketched them and tried to recreate the swirly sky in our art books with both pencils and felt pens, before recreating them on a canvas with paint.

We also tried to recreate his style when doing our own self-portraits and used the internet to find information about him on the internet to create a fact booklet about Vincent.

For a piece of art to be considered Vincent Van Gogh, it must have to following:

  • Brushstrokes bend, whirl and zig-zag
  • Feel movement and feel colour
  • Make you feel emotions or moods when you study it, such as saf, scared, tired or happy.
  • It must have a single word ‘VIncent’ written in cursive on the painting

How did we do?

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Year 3 writing letters to Italy – buona Pasqua!

1st July 2016S Robson

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Year 3 had a great reason to put their informal letter writing skills to the test recently. They teamed up with Scuola Primaria San Biagio in Italy, and were soon receiving letters and Easter cards from the children there. So, Year 3 replied, writing some fabulous letters containing all sorts of interesting information, and creating some lovely posters on Purple Mash learning platform.

Children from a school in Brno, which is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, are also corresponding with us. They’ve sent us some letters, an Easter powerpoint presentation and some Easter cards. We hope they like the class card that Y4R made them. Vesele Velikonoce!

 

Business Education in Year 4 – Our Nation.

By S Robson28th June 2016

Year 4 were learning about business through a workshop entitled ‘Our Nation’, led by Gurpreet Jagpal over the course of two afternoons. Gurpreet shared his university and business background with the children at first, then through a series of games, discussion, critical thinking, teamwork and a project, the children could understand how the geography of our nation could have an impact on business. We are grateful to Gurpreet for giving up some time from his busy schedule to share his insightful knowledge and experience.

 

Euro 16 / International Day – celebrating sport and culture.

By S Robson28th June 2016

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Merhaba! Hello! With 2016 being the year of the Rio Olympics and Euro 16 in France, it seemed like a good idea to dedicate a whole day to the sportsmen and sportswomen, and the cultures, of different nations. Each year group chose a different country to celebrate, then the children participated in sports, games, research and food tasting activities. This culminated in watching a live Euro16 football match.

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Miss Smith teaching some modern, and traditional Turkish dance moves.

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Researching Turkish Olympians, footballers, geography and history.

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Les Olympiques! A production in French for Y4 and Y5.

By S Robson28th June 2016

Year 4 and 5 have been preparing for a visit from our friends from the theatre. The theatre group perform entirely in French, so we have been learning five songs on an Olympics theme to enable us to join in with confidence. As well  as enjoying the performance, 60 children will have the opportunity to participate in a workshop, prior to the performance.

Mexican art

By S Robson28th June 2016

Mexican artists like Frida Kahlo have influenced the art work produced by Year 2 pupils during their ‘Mexico’ topic.

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Writing workshops with Anjum Malik.

By S Robson17th June 2016

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In Year 4 and 5, we welcomed the well-established poet and scriptwriter, Anjum Malik. Anjum has worked with our school before, at Arvon’s Lumb Bank, where she inspired a group of Year 6 children into writing some amazing poetry.

She was looking forward to working with Harton Primary again, and led workshops in Creative Writing, and Writing Monologues over the course of two days.

Year 4 started with some Indian dance, then were shown how a simple scarf could be transformed into just about anything! The scarves inspired the children to role play a scenario, then write in any genre. They really had a great time.

The Year 5 children attended a ‘read through’ of Anjum’s playscript Monologue, just like real actors do. The monologue was about a Bangladeshi family’s experience of racism in a different culture, and finding a place in that society.

Year 4 and 5 came together to perform their work – there were some very well written and original pieces. Well done everyone.

 

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