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Yr5Amazon Rainforest we researched images,considered colour,composition,brush technique,paint application,variety in nature(plants & animals).Henri Rousseau’s naïve,primitive art,inspired by the jungle(he never visited),zoos & botanical gardens fired our imagination!

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2020-01-21

Yr3 Painted happy ink owls in the style of Australian artist Jessie Breakwell.A tricky medium to control,It runs,blurs,splodges & spills😂but that’s its charm! Such vibrant pure colour brightened us up & filled the studio with cheer on a grey day

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2019-11-28

Art & Literacy💂🏻‍♂️Yr1 are proud to have made a tricky Nutcracker soldier character from card & wood-cutting,sticking,templates,colouring& pen work. The Nutcracker &the King of Mice was written by E.T.A. Hoffman in 1816. We’ve even created a dance to support our learning

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2019-11-26

Yr2/ The only mammals that truly hibernate in the UK are hedgehogs, dormice and bats.Other woodland residents become less active.We painted UK Woodland animals getting ready for winter/ playing in snow/cosy in burrows or thinking about hibernation

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2019-11-19

Yr3 have been studying the text Varjak Paw - in Art we thought about how we could illustrate a cat 🐈 we found the cat drawings of Angie Rozelaar really inspiring and used them to help us compose our own cat pictures.

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2019-07-04

To Infinity & Beyond.... Yr5 have started their space topic - we loved exploring space creating galaxy paintings today in art 🚀#melthamart draw/ paint/ splatter/ sponge /colour/ pen textures/ composition/ research

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2019-05-08

Yr4 - History & Art - Exploring Greek Mythology through textiles - These art dolls have involved - Historical knowledge- designing & planning- pattern cutting- sewing- stuffing- costume making - embellishments- support for each other - PATIENCE and PERSEVERANCE👍

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2019-04-11

Yr 1 have studied the African artist Edward Saidi Tingatinga (1932-72) 🐆🦏🦒🐘🐃His painting style is still very popular and today artists make work like his for tourists in Tanzania and Kenya to buy- I wonder how much a tourist would pay for one of our paintings?💰#melthamart

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2019-03-22

🐸🐯🦜Just a few fabulous paintings from our year 5 to cheer up a dreary January night - I wonder who else is wishing for warmer weather ? Proud of their brushwork , composition and use of colour -

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2019-01-30

Year 4 have been exploring architecture through print/ paint and collage- beautiful castles

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2018-11-14

🌜Just loving their mark making ! Year 5 owl studies 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🌛

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2018-10-02

Year 5 have been exploring colour and mark making . Twit Twooo ! 🦉#melthamart

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2018-10-02

Beautiful 💐🌸🌷🌹🌺💐 on a warm summer evening inspired by the sketches Year3 made in the school grounds

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2018-07-11

Lovely painting technique from our year 4 pupils who have painted the school chickens 🐓

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2018-06-25

It might be ☔️ but only 1 more day until holidays

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2017-07-20

Year 3 were inspired by the beautiful flower paintings of yvonne Coomber 🌺we imagined colourful summer meadows🌸🌻

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2017-07-04

Hand in hand - Love & Peace - Thoughts from our Year 6

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2017-05-25