Artist of the Half Term
We are proud that we are an 'Arts' school, we are passionate about the skills of art and giving children different medias to be creative. We have an art corridor in our schools that displays art in an exhibition in frames - our art gallery.
Each half term a pupil is selected across the school from Reception to Year 4 on Dickens and Ruskin sites and is presented with the Artist Award. Their work is hung in a frame. It is awarded at a whole school Headteacher's Assembly, where we celebrate this artist's work and skills together in our school community. It is hung in the external community lobby on both sites for all visitors to see and then in the art gallery.
Artist Award - Spring Term 2023
Spring Term 1 (2023)
Emily created this beautiful piece of artwork in her home learning for our new topic 'Ice Worlds', where we researched different animals that live in the Arctic and Antarctic. Emily decided to do a poster about Polar Bears where she used a fork and white paint to create the fur effect on the Polar Bear, the ears and sea waves were stuck on with sparkly paper for a 3D effect. Emily used a mixture of different colour paints to make the Northern lights and mountains stand out.
Well done Emily on an excellent piece of home learning.
Emily - Swan Class
Spring Term 1 (2023)
Zoe created a piece of graffiti wall art by researching graffiti styles and lettering. She then created her own graffiti tag for her name. Zoe blended her colours to make a smooth transition between her colours.
A fantastic piece of artwork, well done Zoe.
Zoe - Panda Class
Artist Award - Autumn Term 2022
Autumn Term 2 (2022)
Year 3 have been experimenting with colour and pattern linked to their 'Asian Adventure' topic. The children explored colour and tone using a palette of primary colours and white. They then applied their learning to create a sunset-effect background. Children used observational drawing skills to develop their use of line and form. Finally, we learnt about painted elephants in Asian culture and experimented with pattern to create our own painted elephant designs. Eve's bold design and detailed pattern contrast beautifully with the background colours to create an eye-catching piece of artwork. Well done Eve!
Eve - Fox Class
Autumn Term 2 (2022)
The children in Raccoons club were asked to design a picture for the new Ruskin Drive after school club. Dylan in his own time came up with this artwork which was eye capturing to the staff in Raccoons. It was an amazing start to the new club and gave the club an identity. Dylan used the whole sheet to design this wonderful raccoon in a vibrant eye catching red.
Dylan - Panda Class
Artist Award - Summer Term 2022
Summer Term 1 (2022)
During art this term Kestrels have been exploring different artists and their techniques. They have looked at Laurence Stephen Lowry with his matchstick men and industrial designs and John Constable’s landscapes.
The children have explored different watercolour techniques and showed a range of sketching and painting skills.
Summer Term 1 (2022)
In Art we have been looking at Aboriginal dotty art. Matilda chose to use the techniques she had learnt in her own independent painting. She mixed her own colours and spent lots of time adding detail to produce this lovely picture of a Koala.
Artist Award - Spring Term 2022
Spring Term 2 ( 2022)
Benji is a super artist. He has loved creating artwork linked to our ‘Under the Sea’ learning. He is very good at noticing details and worked carefully describing these, whilst drawing. This is a Leopard Shark he painted using a photograph for inspiration. He has done an excellent job of copying the long thin shape of the shark and recreating it’s stripy and dotty markings.
Spring Term 2 (2022)
Eva was inspired by the artwork of Ted Harris. She used line and colour to create this amazing piece of work!
Artist Award - Autumn Term 2021
Autumn Term 2 (2021)
As part of our art lessons in Year 1 children have been using a variety of textures to represent different objects. Jessica thought carefully about the textures she wanted to use before creating her final piece. Well done Jessica!
Autumn Term 2 (2021)
This half term, Year 3 have been exploring Art through our Asia topic. The children have learnt how to sketch elephants and also use print-making to create a border for their final piece. Here is Arya's amazing sketch of an Asian Elephant. She has used sketch-marks and shading to make her elephant come to life!
Artist Award - Summer Term 2021
Summer Term 1 (2021)
In Hedgehogs Class our topic this term is all about Australia. We have been exploring Aboriginal art and took inspiration from some spectacular designs to create our own pieces. Evangeline took time and care in her work, used bright colours and was very patient to be able to create this bold and wonderful turtle. Fantastic work!
Summer Term 1 (2021)
Eden looked at the work of L.S Lowry, thinking about the ‘Urban Environment’ Eden then created an observational piece in the style of Lowry focussing on ‘our school’. Well done Eden an incredible piece using water colours!
Artist Award - Autumn Term 2020
Autumn Term 1 (2020)
During our Totally Tropical topic, Year 3 explored using watercolour to create still-life artwork of the fruits that they tasted. We also explored using pen to outline our paintings which we think makes our artwork really stand out! Well done Felicity!
Felicity
Autumn Term 1 (2020)
Riley enjoyed learning about snails as part of our Minibeast topic. She practised drawing spirals on a whiteboard and then she drew and decorated a spiral using oil pastels. Riley was inspired by The Snail by Matisse and created her own artwork in a similar style by sticking paper into a snail shape.
Well done, Riley! We love your gastropod artwork!
Riley
Artist Award - Autumn Term 2019
Autumn Term 1 (2019)
In Seahorse class we have been thinking about autumn colours by recognising them and mixing them. Harrison has used this to inspire his autumn collage of a squirrel where he has used different textured materials to form his picture.
Harrison
Autumn Term 1 (2019)
As part of our All About Me topic we asked the children to draw a picture of their family. Dorothy used sketching and coloured pencils to a fabulous picture of her family to include her pets.
Dorothy
Artist Award - Summer Term 2019
Summer Term 2 (2019)
Explore Keith Haring Art Children looked at the bold and simple illustrations and designs of Keith Haring. They thought about different sports and created eye catching designs using felt tips and three or four colours. They simplified the human body, creating thick outlines.
Summer Term 2 (2019)
Jaelen was asked to design a sculpture of a polar animal using a pencil, he used shading techniques to sketch a penguin chick for his design
Jaelen
