Art and DT Gallery

from St Pirans Magazine 2021

Pupil Parliaments

The Art Room has been a buzz of activity and creativity this year. By December we had wrapping paper, cards, gift tags, hats, Christmas wreaths and an explosion of glitter! During the Easter Term, the children were involved in a range of activities for their home learning, and those in school enjoyed creative processes as part of their wellbeing. It was fantastic to get back to the art studio and design technology lab after lockdown and make every use of the resources available to fulfil our creativity once more.

Year 1 produced amazing paintings of dinosaurs and fairy tale castles to tie into their topic work along with different types of portraits inspired by Andy Goldsworthy and Andy Warhol.

Year 1 Monet and daffodils

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In Year 2, the children produced so much amazing work about their topic ‘London, Then and Now’ ranging from collages of London buses to intricate line drawings of famous London landmarks. 2W studied expressionistic artists and looked at Kandinsky and Paul Klee among other artists. Using pastels, they were asked to create a piece to show how they were feeling.

Hugo created ‘The Diamond’ and said he feels excited around people. Grace created ‘The Friends’ and said that each square is a friend and it makes her grateful to have so many.

Inspired by the book ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’, they sculpted vegetables out of clay and painted them; they looked good enough to eat!

Their still life pictures formed part of a fantastic display on our Global Gardens topic and some outdoor hunting reaped rewards in colourful natural resources to make beautiful sun catchers.

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Year 3 created wonderful drawings of Roman helmets in oil pastel and enjoyed learning about colour theory. They applied their colour knowledge to some lovely festive cards and wrapping paper. They produced fantastic Cubist self-portraits as well as printmaking using the work of contemporary surface pattern designer Andrea Lauren. Year 3 pupils also expressed their creativity through their paintings of rainforest birds and by making moving sloths!

We also enjoyed combining DT and science by making shadow puppet theatres.

Year 4 learned watercolour techniques to create a line and wash illustration. They have also learned about Bridget Riley and have created some abstract art inspired by her work, along with some beautiful Egyptian sarcophagi and Hockney landscapes.

Sanaa Fergusson 4CM Scarlett Pettifer 4H

Lexie Welham 4T

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Always a fun project, the pupils’ Tudor portraits seem to turn them into Tudor royalty!

Year 4 produced clay coat of arms shields and, inspired by the artist Paul Klee, worked on ‘taking a line for a walk’.

Electro Palette - Millie Easton The Sea Palette - Reina Speirs Racing Stripes Palette - Arian Bajaj

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Year 5 created a tree of hopes and dreams based upon Klimt’s Tree of Life. They also spent a term working in a range of black and white media to produce observational drawings, prints and paintings of their soft toys brought from home. Year 5 also completed Van Gogh inspired landscapes and Julian Opie inspired portraits.

In DT, Year 5 made fantastic wall hanging thermometers using MDF and thermochromic strips and stuffed felt monsters to test our design and sewing skills.

It was fantastic to see the children back in the DT room using the equipment with such enjoyment!

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While we spent most of the start of the year at home, Years 5 and 6 worked on some amazing nature inspired hats and some brilliant chair designs inspired by the work of different artists as a joint project with art and DT. In Year 6, they produced excellent Van Gogh-inspired drawings of different locations around the school site and thought about how to use colour to reflect their emotions. They also made some fantastic mixed media Pop Art portraits of themselves inspired by the work of Roy Lichtenstein, along with a Pop Art style collage.

Oliver Edmundson

Ione Gaskin Peggie Swankie

Alexa Phelps Toby Croxford

George Clarke Year 2 Pop Art

In the Summer Term, Year 6 were busy finishing and painting self-identity sculptures, taking inspiration from artist Niki de Saint Phalle.

Toby Croxford Olivia Davies Sophia Phelps

Holly Saunders Beatrice Groffman Johnta Kosaka-Harding

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The still life flower paintings of the children filled the walls with colour and took a great deal of their concentration to represent the details. It was also a wonderful way to relax and focus on our mental wellbeing for a while.