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rt and Design forms a vibrant part of school life. Our innovative pupils bring their creative ideas to life with the support of our Art Departments and Design & Technology Departments, with each year bringing new and exciting opportunities for the children to showcase their skills.
St Peter’s 2-8 Art and design at St Peter’s 2-8 is inspiring, messy and most importantly great fun! We take inspiration from our termly themes, real artists and the world around us to explore different cultures, escape to new worlds and most importantly to express ourselves as individuals. We have lots of materials available from paint, clay and natural resources in Forest School to the ‘tinkering table’ where the children can practise their woodwork skills. Every child is an artist, and we love watching their ideas develop as they paint, draw, cut, stick, glue, thread and construct their unique creations. Nursery The changing seasons inspired our little artists in Nursery this year. We used autumn leaves to make leaf prints with paint and we even created hedgehogs by sticking and gluing the leaves together. We also made our own firework pictures using lots of sparkly glitter. During winter we enjoyed creating wonderful wintry collages and making and decorating Frozen 2 cupcakes. Unfortunately lockdown restrictions brought the spring term to an abrupt end, but we loved seeing the artwork that the children created at home. Reception Reception used their underwater themed books to inspire their artwork at the start of the year. They made their very own tie-dyed snail shells and practised their threading skills when making beautiful, colourful jellyfish. They also enjoyed using the natural resources in the classroom to make spiral snail shells and decorate whales before capturing their own ‘shellfies’. The children have become skilled photographers, using iPad photos to create an autumnal, friendship tree and taking photos of their favourite stained-glass windows in the Minster before learning how to edit their photos. Other highlights include developing our observational painting skills using pictures from The Gruffalo, designing and building Elsa’s castle from Frozen in RA, making Chinese lanterns and Chinese dragon craft to celebrate Chinese New Year, and creating 3D planets using the Quiver app. As part of Home Learning, many children also created fabulous rainbow images, spreading much-needed hope and joy.
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