Year 6 - Take One Picture

Year 6 produced some fantastic work for the Take One Picture exhibition. If your were unable to attend please take a look at the the fantastic work below. 

Year 1 - Floating and Sinking

As part of the 'Take One Picture' project, year 1 have been asked to focus on the theme of transport. In the picture 'Men of the Docks', a large ship is a focal point of the painting.

For our first cross-curricular link, we investigated floating and sinking in Science. How and why do some things float?

Year 1 were given a piece of plasticine and had to experiment with the shape of the plasticine to see what shape would be best for floating.

The children tried various shapes and experimented with the thickness of the plasticine. They eventually discovered that a boat like shape is best. We discussed the reasons why which led to some amazing, scientific conversations!
 

Well done to Harry who was the first person to make his plasticine float!

Year 4TS - Take one picture

We looked at the picture - 'An experiment on a bird in an air pump' by Joesph Wright. 

We created freeze frames of the picture to help us understand more about the characters emotions.

 In art we drew different facial expressions. 

In DT we created bird cages...Don't they look amazing!

A video of our class art gallery. 

3NL - Emotions

In class today we were looking at different colours representing different emotions. We then painted a colour wheel using our handprints.







We had lots of angry, furious, scared, joyful, delighted and worried children!


Can you guess who was feeling what emotion?

Take-1-Picture Cross Curriculum Project

Saint Michael Triumphant over the Devil, 1468
by Bartolome Bermejo

Once again all classes across the school will be undertaking the Take-1-Picrture Project for the first two weeks of school. 

Using the painting, Saint Michael Triumphant over the Devil (1468), teachers plan cross-curricular learning opportunities for pupils.  Every pupil in Year 2 to Year 6 will have the opportunity to see the ‘real thing’ by visiting the National Gallery.

Year 6           Wednesday 10^th September
Year 5           Wednesday 10^th September
Year 4           Friday 19^th September
Year 3           Thursday 18^th September
Year 2           Thursday 18^th September
Year1/2         Friday 19^th September  (YEAR 2 pupils Only)

The culmination of work from this project will be shared with parents at our Gallery showing on Wednesday 22^nd October and Thursday 23^rd October between 3.00-4.00pm. We hope you can join us for this event.

 

Additional Information About The Painting

With an extravagant swirl of his red and gold cloak, Saint Michael wields his sword; there is no hope for the devil at his feet. Taken from the Book of Revelation, this episode caught the medieval imagination, becoming a popular subject for paintings.

Saint Michael is an important figure in the three monotheistic religions, Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Leader of the army of God against the forces of evil, his attributes include a sword and scales, and he is shown with a dragon or serpent at his feet, dressed in armour. Here, his idealised face contrasts with the portrait of the donor Antonio Juan on the left of the painting.

This panel originally hung at the altar in the church of San Miguel in Tous, a town near Valencia in Spain. Lit by candlelight, the glowing red eyes of the devil must have seemed dramatic to church-goers of the time.

Spanish artist Bermejo shows off his mastery of the oil painting technique. He contrasts the gold leaf background with the painted golden armour worn by the angel, a reflection of the holy city of Jerusalem visible in the breastplate.