St Ann's CofE Primary School

Easter Art Opportunities

The children in our school have regular additonal art opportunities throughout the year. In year 1 and 2 the children have been developing their paintbrush control creating palm branch crosses on the front of Easter cards. This also allowed Year 2 to apply the colour mixing skills that they have practiced in their Spring art unit. In Reception, the children have used crayons to create multicoloured cross cards and independently the children have been painting crosses at sunset. 

Year 1 Spring 2024

In year 1 children looked at the artwork of Frida Kahlo. Children understood she was an artist that created self portraits and year 1 created their own fantastic self portraits with a natural background. They focused on drawing facial features.

Year 6 Spring 2024

In Year 6 the children have been looking at David Hockney's painting of the Grand Canyon they then looked at how to draw one point perspective and created their own paintings of the Grand Canyon from a different viewpoint. 

Year 5 Spring 2024

In Year 5 the children have looked at the artwork of Romero Britto and then created their own piece of happiness artwork in his bright pop art style. 

Year 3 Spring 2024

Using clay all of the children in year 3 created canopic jars. They used roll and coil techniques to manipulate the clay into their jar shape as well as the technique scoring and slip to join the clay together to create a lid displaying a son of Horus. 

Christmas Cards and Calendars

Children created wonderful cards and calendars to take home and share with their families applying previous knowledge of art skills as well as exploring new art techniques. The examples below show angel cards and pop art flower calendars in the style of Yayoi Kusama both created by Year 1 and 2. 

Christmas Art Competition 

In December we held our first Christmas art competition. Every child in school was given a simple angel template and asked to use their own creativity and imagination to create a wonderful, individual peice of angel artwork. We had a fantastic response and a winner was chosen from each year group. We shared all of the angels with our school community during our Christmas Carol concert. 

Year 6 Autumn 2023

Year 6 looked at the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti. They then used wired and modroc to make sculptures of well known sports days modelling the elongated style of Alberto Giacometti. 

Year 4 Autumn 2023

Year 4 looked at significant buildings and their architects. They then looked at features of Roman architecture then created their own printing block using line drawings and foam blocks. They then printed onto different colours and selected the print that was most visually pleasing. 

Year 3 Autumn 2023

Year 3 looked at cave paintings and experienced making their own mark making materials using natural resources. They were introduced to the artwork of Steven Brown and then the class drew animals native to Britain and learnt to upscale their drawings. They added colourful paint to the drawings to replicate the style of Steven Brown. 

Year 2 Autumn 2023

Year 3 were introduced to Susan Lordi. An American designer and artist who started the Willow Tree Ornament business. Most children were very familiar with these ornaments from their own homes. We used a new material 'Airdough' and manipulated it into an angel shape before using feathers and pipe cleaners to add an extra layer to our sculptures. 

Year 4 Spring 2023

During the spring term year 4 looked at Ancient Greek Theatre masks and sculptures created by Hazel Reeves. Year 4 looked at how Hazel Reeves shows emotion as well as how Greek theatre masks showed emotion. They spent time drawing emotions on faces and then using clay they were introduced to the score and slip technique to join features to their masks allowing them to add detail.