Warm and Cold Colours

4th March 2022Miss A Samuels

This week in Art, year 3 focused on mixing warm and cold colours. We discovered that red, yellow and blue colours are our primary colours and can not be made by mixing other colours. We focused on the artist Piet Mondrain, an artist who regularly used primary colours within his art work. We then created a Mondrain inspired painting- they were fabulous!

After this, we then created our own colour wheels. We learnt that secondary colours are made my mixing together primary colours. Take a look at our colour wheels- our secondary colours sit halfway between the two primary colours it is mixed from.

 

 

Superhero Cities

16th February 2022Ms A Emmerson

Take a look at our superhero cities. We are so proud of them! First we mixed black with our blue paint and it made the colour darker. Then we used squares and rectangles to create our tall and short buildings. Finally we added some superhero words. We came up with POW, BOOM, CRASH, SMASH and ZAP!

Colour Mixing

15th February 2022L Moore

This week we have been exploring colour mixing. We picked two primary colours and used our hands to mix them together. We enjoyed seeing how the colours changed and talking about the new colours we had made.

Norman Cornish Artwork

11th February 2022Miss A Samuels

This week, we had a special visitor from Beamish who came into Year 3 to tell us all about the artist Norman Cornish. Norman Cornish was a miner from Spennymoor as well as an artist. We focused on Normal Cornish because Beamish are building a new 1950’s town and Norman’s studio will be part of that. This year will mark the hundredth anniversary of Norman’s birth. In the session, we looked closely at his artwork and then had our own turn at sketching and shading observational drawings. We learnt many new artistic skills such as cross hatching to help add more textures to our drawings. At the end of the session, we looked and handled many artefacts from Beamish such as the miners lamps. We thoroughly enjoyed the session and are looking forward to our upcoming to trip to Beamish where we will get the chance to visit the pit village, 1950 Front Street and carry out some sketching on locations similar to those in Norman Cornish’s sketches.

Christmas Art & Craft

16th December 2021Ms A Emmerson

The children in Reception have been working hard to complete their Christmas crafts. They have followed instructions, used lots of different materials and different methods. They are looking forward to sharing their crafts with their family at home!

Space!

1st December 2021Ms A Emmerson

This half term we have been learning all about Space. We started off by finding out which planet we live on, planet Earth! We used Google Earth, found Harton Primary School and zoomed all the way out until we were in space. Look at our amazing Earth paintings. We included land and sea.

Self Portraits

8th October 2021D Fawkes

This half term Y6 have been developing their sketching skills and creating self portraits. We  have worked on shading and blending and spent time drawing and practising our different facial features and expressions in our sketch books before creating our final self portrait.

Amazing home learning in year 2!

26th January 2021ajennings

Year 2 have been working so hard at home and we have been amazed with the fantastic work they have been sending in.

English

In English, children started off the term learning about China. They have been writing and performing poems about Chinese dragon’s dancing in the New Year parade. They practised reading their poems aloud, speaking clearly and using sound effects and actions.

Here are a few of the brilliant performances:

 

 

The children used the facts they learned about China to write some wonderful information texts.

Maths

Look at all of the marvellous multiplication that the children have been doing, investigating how many equal groups there are and how many objects are in each group:

Here is even more fantastic work that year 2 have been doing, we are so proud of them!