Like no other activity, various types of drawing allows children to express their creativity, build confidence, all while developing their motor skills and hand and eye co-ordination. “I usually try to follow certain themes and ideas for each year group to extend their particular skills” states Mrs Fox, Art Co-ordinator. “Each project is designed to stretch the children with the art skills they are developing in that year”.
- Reception are learning all about the primary colours which is why their carol singers are in red, yellow and blue.
- Year 1 are studying ‘A walk in the woods’ as their class topic – therefore they looked at owls and, in particular, textures for the bark and on the tree and feathers on the owl.
- Year 2 used stencils, collage, cutting, added decoration and painting snow to complete their colourful Christmas trees.
- Year 3 are developing their use of oil pastels and learning how to blend effectively. They also look at the principles of symmetry when designing their own snowflakes.
- Year 4 are learning about ‘Active Planet’ which is why there is a mountain landscape. They look into the depth within a painting, starting with the background, then midground and finally foreground. They also learn about washes of colour using watercolour and more fine detail painted on the surface.
- Year 5 are developing a detailed understanding of pattern, choosing an outline from a wide selection of animals and then filling them using two thicknesses of black pen. These are then cut out and a background is collaged using Christmas papers.
- Year 6 have been learning about designed fonts, writing their own Christmassy word using the ‘Dangles’ Font. After colouring with Sharpies, they could then dip a copy of their word in marbling ink to add to the effect.
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