Morpeth All Saints Church of England Aided First School

Week 3

Autumn 1 2023

Reception class drew all the members in their families.  We used lots of colour to show their emotions just like The Colour Monster (our book this week).

Week 3

Autumn 1 2023

Red class used view finders to find and record observations of linear patterning in natural objects.can you spot onions, feathers, wood …

Week 2 

Autumn 1 2023

We thought about what we were going to draw, told Mrs Roberts and then drew our own picture.  We had dinosaurs, sailing boats, rabbits in burrows, horses, picnics …

Key Stage 2 used view finders to highlight different parts of objects.

Autumn Term

Week 1 2023

Blue Sea have been creating their own flags and demonstrating how great they are at using scissors.

Key Stage 2 used a story as a starting point for their mark making.   So wonderful to see their imaginations working in such different ways.

2023 - 2024

Week 6

Summer 2 2023

Year 4 made their own ‘relief’ stamps in play dough.  They used a range of different tools to achieve different marks.

Week 6

Summer 2023

Observational drawing with Reception class.  We looked very carefully at the lines and shapes we could see in the leaves and flowers.

Week 3

Summer 2 2023

Fantastic finished designs.  We used our collographs to add our designs to the dip dyed fabric.

Week 3

Summer 2023 

Upcycling yogurt pots for Climate Week.  We need pots to put our self seeded seedlings in.  
We love getting PLANTS FOR FREE!

Week 2

Summer 2 2023

Week 1

Summer 2 2023

Yellow class have been looking at African prints and natural materials as inspiration for their printing in future weeks.

Week 1 

Summer 2 2023

Red class have produced some very detailed sketches of the materials they were provided with today. We used natural materials and African prints.

Week 1

Summer 2 2023

Week 6

Summer 1 2023

Week 6

Summer 1 2023

Week 5

Summer 1 2023

Jade Class

Week 5

Summer 1 2023

Red Class

Using Henri Matisse as our inspiration we made our own positive and negative images and displayed them as collages in our sketch books.

Week 5

Summer 1 2023

The morning nursery children worked together to make a wonderful grass sculpture.

Week 4

Summer 1 2023

OUTSTANDING art work from Red and Yellow class. Well done

Week 4

Summer 1 2023

Yellow classes completed collages. Super use of shape, repeating pattern, complimentary colours and ‘thumbs up’ for trying to add OPTICAL ILLUSIONS into your work.

Week 4

Summer 1 2023

Week 3

Summer 2 2023

Yellow class made their own collages using contrasting / complimentary colours. They used OP ART as their inspiration but also the CORONATION.

Week 3

Summer 2 2023

Week 2

Summer 1 2023

Yellow class completed their collages using the work of Paul Klee as their inspiration. The complimentary colour sheets worked really well and it was an added achievement that they had mixed the colours the selves. STUNNING!

Week 2

Summer 1 2023

Today we made two caterpillars like the 5 caterpillars we are watching grow in nursery.
One had to be short and one long.
We PRINTED instead of using paint brushes.  We could choose from a range of round objects: cotton reels, corks, wooden blocks, sponges …

Week 1

Summer 1 2023

A new term a new topic in both Ks1 and KS2: COLLAGE. In KS1 we have been looking at the work of Andy Goldsworthy and in KS2 the artist Paul Klee.

Week 5

Spring 2

Yellow class have made their own clay relief stamps.  They used the primary colours to make an overlapping pattern.

Week 5

Spring 2

Super sculpture making from a member of our morning nursery. This was a castle, that just kept on growing!
 

Week 4

Spring 2

Celebrating all our work on the topic SCULPTURE this term. Please come and look at the display in the Performing Arts room.

Week 3

Spring 2

Fantastic collages created for Mothers Day by Yellow class.

Week 3

Spring 2

Nursery children using the interactive whiteboard to create patterns using different colours.

Week 3

Spring 2

Week 2

Spring 2

Week 2

Spring 2

Hot off the press! PRINT PRINT PRINT

Week 1

Spring 2

Yellow class investigating positive and negative prints. Can you guess what they used to make the prints? Pictures inspired by the architect Nigel Peake.

Week 1 

Spring 2

Super observational drawings of birds, taken from a very interesting book. Independent work completed at home. Stunning use of line and colour.  Produced by one our Year 4s.

Week 1

Spring 2

Week 1

Spring 2

Today we made collages - sticking pieces of paper onto paper to make different creatures. We made snappy crocodiles and slithery snakes from our song The Animal Fair.

Week 6

Spring 2

Week 6

Spring 1 2023

Key Stage 2 having been working in clay for the last few sessions of the art topic ‘3D / Sculpture’ this term. We have made inlay and relief pots, transposing our drawn designs into the clay objects we have created.

Week 5

Spring 1 2023

The nursery children have been using their hands to print robins today. They used red paint on their palms and brown on their fingers for the feathers.

Week 4

Spring 1 2023

Week 4

Spring 2

Jade class have been manipulating different coloured clay. How does it feel?

Week 4

Spring 1

Yellow class have been working with clay today. They explored the ‘inlay’ technique.

Week 3

Spring 1 2023

Red Class

Week 2 

Spring 1 2023

Yellow class have finished their paper mache pots!  Can you guess which artists they used as their inspiration?

Week 2

Spiring 1 2023

Jade class ART lesson outside today:

Green class responding to the work of the artist Andy Goldsworthy.

Week 2

Spring 1 2023

Today we started to paint the base layers on our paper mache. We also planned some designs for the outside of our finished pots using the artist we had chosen as our inspiration. Which one will we use?

Week 1

Spring 1 2023

NEW topic this term SCULPTURE.  Key stage 2 are staring a papier-mache project.  They have to select an artist whose work they will use as the inspiration for their bowl design.

Week 6

Autumn 2

”I’ve got a body a very busy body”.

Today we talked about the different parts of our bodies and drew them.

Week 6

Autumn 2

Yellow class have been mixing our own powder paints to make colours for our painting. We have been investigating skyscrapers by different artists. We looked at the work of Maggie Hambling, JMW Turner and Peter Lanyon.

Week 5

Autumn 2

Celebrating the work last term of the topic DRAWING.

ART IN THE EARLY YEARS

Look at the fantastic activities you can take part in when working in Blue Sea and Blue Sky.