Arts Week 2016

In Year 2 we have been studying the life and works of famous french artist Claude Monet.

We used oil pastels and worked together to recreate a giant masterpiece.

We learned how to paint in the style of the impressionist painters.  We used acrylic paints and worked on marine plywood canvases to create what will become an outdoor gallery for our peaceful patch. We were all very proud of the results especially our independant colour mixing.  See if you can spot Monet's famous paintings that we used as inspiration.

We used our observation and sketching skills to create some beautiful notebook style art.  We loved having a classroom full of real flowers all week too!

By far the most popular workshop this week was the clay workshop supported by students from The Blandford School.  We made clay water lillies and used lots of new tools and techniques. We learned how to crosshatch (hashtag! ###) and use slip to join pieces of clay together.  Everyone who wandered past during the workshops was amazed at how beautiful the results were.  What do you think?  (We think you will use the word WOW!)

We also decided to make an art installation for the last day of Arts week.  We spent any spare minutes during the week making papercraft poppies.  By Friday we had made more than 100 and put them out on the hill behind school to recreate Monet's famous painting.  Can you see the similarities?

On Friday we celebrated with the whole school by holding an art exhibition in the hall.  It was amazing and we were all so proud and happy to show our grown-ups round.  Here are some of the highlights for those that couldn't make it.

Here are some photos that we couldn't resist sharing of Year 2 in action!

A big thank you to Mrs Hargreaves, students from The Blandford School and all the parents that came in and helped too.  We couldn't have done it without you!

More computer coding

Some super coding work this week.  We are looking at how to make a sprite (character) move, react stop and disappear.  We have also learned how to design a background for our own app.

Have a look at two examples below:

Magic castle - we coded our characters so that one set run away from the wizard at the start and the other characters run away when tapped on.

Sharkswipe - We learned how to code movement for a character when you swipe them.

Super coding click here

Computing

In our weekly computing sessions this term we are learning more about computer coding.

Espresso Coding

Connections Project

Our class have been very lucky to have local artist Bridget Townsend invite us to join her as part of her "Connections Project".  She has been working with a group of elderly artists at Culliford House Residential Home in Dorchester.

Bridget came into school and introduced us to some of the artists she works with.  They are all aged between 74 and 102.  Each artist had taken a "selfie" with their name and what they like doing on to say 'hello' to us.  The children were lucky enough to be able to take some pictures of us saying hello to them so Bridget could show them.  Even Mrs Milner and Mrs Upward joined in.

Everyone brought in a special item from home and drew pictures and wrote about them.

Today 10 representatives from our class went off in the minibus with Miss Moscrop and Mrs Hargreaves to visit the artists at their home.  We were all treated to juice and biscuits, had time to chat, read stories and even play a parachute game.

This Thursday, we welcome Bridget back to school to do a portrait painting session with the whole class.  All of our photos and artwork, alongside that of our elderly artist friends will be displayed at an exhibition in the Autumn.  How exciting!