Self portraits

In our art lessons we have been working on self portraits. It was a lot of fun and we worked very hard on them!

Making clay sculptures

Reception Bonfire and Firework Pictures

Nursery Autumn Painting

Nursery have been enjoying taking part in autumn activities. The children finger painted autumn trees and created leaf print paintings. 🍂

Year 2 have loved creating art in the style of Paul Curtis!

Mark making outdoors

Sculpture

In Year 1 we designed and created our own sculptures with a focus on Toys.

Henri Rousseau

Year 5 created wonderful layered leaf collages.

Clay sculptures

We used the bust of Nefertiti as a stimulus for creating our own busts from clay.

Spring flower art in Reception

Research lesson

For our painting topic we are researching David Hockney and looking at some of his artwork and painting techniques.

Earth Day

Year 6 mindfulness

Y6 have been fantastic during SATs week! They have worked and revised so hard! They even used their downtime to work together to create this beautiful owl 🦉

Painting in the style of John Culshaw

Y6 studied the proportions of their faces before drawing their self portraits. They then painted them in monochrome taking inspiration from John Culshaw.

Evaluating our final pieces

Y6 held a class gallery today. They really enjoyed being art critics and left some fantastic feedback for their friends.

Painting in the style of Liverpool artists

Y6 have been analysing the work of Frank Green and John Culshaw. They then chose an artist to focus on and created their own painting.

Weather painting

In year 1 we created pieces of artwork in the style of David Hockney.

Art

Year 5 experimented with different ways to make Greek comedy and tragedy theatre masks.

Talented artist

One of our fantastic year 5 children with his brilliant drawing of the Liverpool skyline.

World Book Day

Year 5 spend the day creating their own comic books with fantastic storylines and illustrations. We have lots of future Stan Lees in our midst.

Art

Year 5 created wonderful layered leaves using different materials.

whole school art display

Forest school art

Sefton Park Palm House visit

Year 5 had a wonderful morning at the Palm House. They took part in art and craft activities. They also learnt about the history of the beautiful structure and about some of the fabulous plants which can be found there.

Forest Friends

Art

Year 5 had a wonderful afternoon creating Ancient Greek comedy and tragedy masks. The children are extremely creative and they really enjoy expressing themselves through art.

Busy First Week

Year 4 have had a busy first week, we developed our own class charter, we picked articles from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child that we thought we needed in our class. We created pictures of a famous Liverpool landmark using a variety of techniques (can you guess where it is?), consolidated our knowledge of 4-digit numbers using manipulatives, learned what partitive nouns are and found out that ‘Being different is the best thing ever!’ What a week!

Year 3 Art

In art this week we have been looking at the artist Sarah Sedwick. We have collected different fruit and cutlery to make a similar piece of still art work.

Self portraits

Today we used mirrors to look at our facial features and create our own self portraits.

Art work inspired by God’s gifts

Reception – Creating new colours by holding hands with our friends

Clay faces

Year 4 used scoring, pinching and slip to create wonderful clay faces.

Y5 Creative fun in Forest School

Y4 Developing our creativity in Forest School

Self portraits in the style of Henri Matisse

Making Emergency Vehicles out of junk materials in Reception Class

Nursery firework art and crafts

Nursery class have enjoyed making sparkly firework paintings and creating beautiful firework patterns using chalk.

Exploring signs of Autumn in Reception

A real Lowry painting!

Whilst at the IWM North, the eagle-eyed children spotted an original Lowry painting! We spent time looking at the figures and discussed the inspiration for the painting being WW2. What joy this was to see as we studied this artist in Autumn 1!

Reflecting on our art work

Greek comedy and tragedy masks

Year 5 created Ancient Greek comedy and tragedy masks. The used plaster of Paris to make the masks and painted them trying show the facial expressions of comedy or tragedy.

Year 3 Nature walk…

We took a walk through our school grounds and experienced the natural world around us. We collected some items and brought these back to class to make our class collage. This was so fun!

Stewardship of God’s Creation in Y6

Today Y6 went on a nature walk to celebrate the jubilee year and their hopes for God’s world in the future. They collected items from the school grounds and created their own version of the jubilee badge.

Year 3 Pledges…

We used our Catholic Social teaching to write our Pledge on different coloured leaves. We all wrote pledges, saying how we could be Pilgrims of Hope in our school. #Jubilee