Wassily Kandinsky- Farbstudie Quadrate
For Art, we created our own version of ‘Farbstudie Quadrate’ (Colour Study of Squares) using fire colours such as red, yellow and orange.
WOW Day- The Great Fire of London
This term our focus topic is The Great Fire of London. For WOW Day we created a silhouette for how London looked during the fire. We then imagined we were in the fire by passing around bowls of water to stop the fire from growing.
National Poetry Day
To celebrate National Poetry Day, we wrote a poem based in ‘100 is a lot’ by Mish Goldish.
Printing with Leaves Inspired by Katsushika Hoksuai
Katsushika Hokusai is a well-known Japanese painter and printmaker. He produced about 35,000 drawings and prints throughout his 70 years of artistic creation.
we created our own prints using leaves to represent the nature in our local environment
Autumn 1- Forest School
Forest School takes place in a woodland or natural environment to support the development of a lifelong relationship between learner and the natural environment.
We walked to our local forest and participated in activities such as: litter picking, bug collecting, mud making, shelter building and tree climbing!
WOW Day- Nightingale and Seacole Silhouette
For WOW Day, the children were introduced to Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. We learnt about Nightingale and Seacole childhood, their work life, and how they improved the hospitals they were based in.
Their topic question for this term is “who is more influential Mary Seacole or Florence Nightingale?”
To celebrate who they were, we created colourful silhouettes of Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale.
Music Workshop - E Project
We had a great time participating in a music workshop for our project all about the story: An Invite from the Queen. We made our own instruments and designed our own fruits!
Forest School
We had our very last forest school where we had lots of fun exploring!
Islamic Art
As part of our RE topic, we printed Islamic tiles with our very own Islamic art designs.
Resist Art
As part of our topic; Our Local Area: Hackney, we viewed satellite images of the area and discussed the physical and human features found nearby. We created maps using chalk, oil pastel and watercolours of our local area.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
We created fruit and vegetable face portraits inspired by the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
We are Researchers
As part of our Computing topic, we conducted some research on Google to find out about our local area. We came up with questions to search to find answers and gather more information about Hackney.
Alma Thomas
We created art work using repetitive patterns and shapes inspired by the famous artist Alma Thomas.
Sandwich Instructions
We followed instructions to make cucumber sandwiches. We then wrote our own set of instructions on how to make a sandwich.
