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ART DEPARTMENT

Year 4
From evacuation suitcases and propaganda posters
to natural disasters and Roman mosaics, the Year 4
students have explored a range of model making,
drawing, collage and surface paint effects. Many
enjoyed splatting, oozing, snipping and gluing which
have all helped develop their fine motor skills.

Year 5
Investigating “Coastlines” saw students silhouetting
and painting ombres and knowing the difference
between a tint and a tone and where to use them
according to light sources. Their painting skills have
been further developed whilst looking at the key artist
‘Monet’ and using hot and cold colour palettes and
choppy brush strokes to recreate the famous Japanese
bridge and to draw, cut, score and assemble a model
water lily.

Year 6
The ‘Light’ project saw students draw and render sun,
moon and stars symbolically and use Aztec pattern
work. They have since been completing a Native
American Haida art project which imitates a Year 7
art and design brief model. Students were encouraged
to research and compile visual information later used
to draw and paint their own totem animals as well as
making model totem poles which they embellished.

Year 7
Key artists such as Vincent Van Gogh were referred
to when looking at line. Painting to music with
Kandinsky made students work more instinctively
with shape and colour. Texture was the formal element
students perfected in “Imaginary animals” which
culminated in a collagraph print of their Cryptoid
creatures. These featured in homework tasks which
sought to contextualise the animal in book covers and
poems, bringing them alive.

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