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Welcome to Willingham Primary School's Art blog. Here, you can see what your children have been doing in their Art lessons and celebrate their amazing creations. If you would like to see older posts, they are still available in the Archive section.

We hope that you enjoy it!

Ms Varty

svarty@willingham.cambs.sch.uk

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Archive
  • 29/11/17

    Year 5 and 6: Kandinsky

    In Years 5 and 6, we have been learning about the history of abstract art and looking, in particular, at the work of Wassily Kandinsky. The children identified the characteristic features of Kandinky's work and used their sketchbooks to record what they had learned and to experiment with aspects...
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  • 22/11/17

    Year 1 & 2: Silly sandwiches

    The topic focus in Years 1 and 2 is Food, glorious food! and in art we have been using collage.
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  • 15/11/17

    Year 5 & 6: Greek Masks

    Having studied the proportions of the face in our first lesson and chosen whether to make a comic or tragic mask, the Year 5s and 6s were very excited to make a start. They began by marking the position of the eyes and mouth on a balloon and then carefully layering  wet Modr...
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  • 14/11/17

    Year 1 & 2: Weather painting

    The Year 1s and 2s have been learning about the weather in their topic work and in art, used wax resist and watercolour to create a weather painting.
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  • 10/11/17

    Year 3/4: Viking Art

    The topic for the Year 3/4s this half-term is A place to settle and, over the last two weeks, we have been investigating Viking art of the 8th - 11th Centuries.
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  • 03/11/17

    Year 1: Leaf watercolours

    In their topic work, the Year 1s have been learning about weather and the seasons. In art, we learned how to use watercolours to create beautiful colour mixes in a leaf painting.
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  • 30/10/17

    Year 5: Proportions of the Face

    In art in Years 5 and 6, we have been learning about the charcteristic design of Greek theatres and the fact that all the actors were male. We will shortly begin making our own Greek theatre masks. It is important that the masks fit the children's faces, so today, we spent the les...
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  • 25/10/17

    Year 1: Monsters!

    In common with the Year 2s, we were making pictures of monsters in Year 1, although this time with paint rather than pastel. The children practised drawing round an object to make the eyes. We discussed how to choose an expression for your monster and which colours to choose to make a...
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  • 24/10/17

    Year 2: Monsters!

    In the last lesson of our work on castles, we dared to go down to the dungeon and find out what might be lurking in the darkness! The Year 2s enjoyed using their imagination to draw colourful and friendly monsters.
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  • 19/10/17

    Year 5 & 6: Optical Illusions

    The Year 5s and 6s had expressed an interest in learning about optical illusions so for the last lesson of half-term, we had a go at creating some for ourselves.
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  • 17/10/17

    Christmas comes early: Part 2

    Willingham Primary took part in the Xmas4Schools card scheme this year. The children worked hard to produce some very beautiful designs and I thought that you might like to see a selection from each year group.
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  • 06/10/17

    Year 3/4: Stone Age Necklaces

    Over the last two weeks in art, the Year 3/4s have been learning about the artefacts discovered in the Neolithic village of Skara Brae in the Orkneys and making their own clay necklaces.
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