This week, Toucans have enjoyed looking at lots of paintings of the Great Fire of London. The class realised this was another way in which we have learnt about the past. Although the pictures were all of the same scene, they were very different! We talked about which ones looked the most realistic and which were the most effective. Toucans then got to work to make their own interpretation of the same event. They created silhouettes of the roofs by using black card. Well done Toucans! All the pictures on display in our classroom.

Toucans found out all about the French artist Paul Cezanne this afternoon. They realised he was alive during the Victorian time period, which meant he was alive at the same time as Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole!

Toucans thought his work was a bit dull and boring at first but once he began to paint nature, his work became more colourful, warm and cheerful. Karly said he was inspired by nature. The children studied a variety of pictures he had painted with acrylics and watercolours. Did you know he painted 1,300 paintings?!

On Friday, Toucans experimented with chalk and charcoal to create their own portraits of Florence Nightingale. They looked at a range of images of Florence beforehand and really enjoyed the lesson.

Today in Art we learnt how to use primary colours to make secondary colours. We learnt that red and blue make purple, yellow and blue make green and red and yellow make orange. We then practiced adding white and black to colours to see what happened. Finally, Miss Williams challenged us to find out which colours would mix to make peach, cream and brown. We thought it was great fun!

Today in Art we learnt how to draw a polar bear. We concentrated really well! We practiced adding texture and shading.

Today we painted our pictures in the style of Paul Cezanne. We learnt how to use watercolours and then tried our own.

Today we learnt about different art that tribes living in the rainforest produce. We learnt that they use the materials of the rainforest to make different sorts of art. They use wood, feathers, body paint and leaves to decorate themselves and their houses. They also make things they can use like baskets and blowpipes.

We learnt they use clay from the ground to make coil pots then we practiced making our own. It was great fun and very messy!

Today we have had a very arty afternoon! We have been using lots of different media to make arctic animal pictures.

In Art today we learnt about primary and secondary colours. We learnt that the primary colours can’t be made but can be used (along with black and white) to make many more colours.

We experimented for ourselves using the watercolours.

Today in Art we practiced a learning objective we have focused on before; drawing with texture and shading. Miss Williams taught us how to draw a polar bear focusing on breaking down the shapes. We then tried our own and added detail using lines and dots to add texture. Look at our photos to see how we got on.

Today we explored printing as next week we are printing our own tablecloths for our healthy food restaurant. We experimented with how much paint to use and how to do patterns.

We think printing is fun!

In Art this week we have been learning how to draw and paint fruit. We have taken inspiration from Paul Cezanne and Guiseppe Arcimboldo to make our own Art. Look out for our work on display because it is fantastic!

In Art yesterday we learnt how to do a line drawing focusing on size and shape. Today we learnt how to add texture to our drawings by using lines, dots and shading. We explored different textures first and then drew some fruits that had different textures. We tried hard to use the different methods. Some of us even learnt about some new fruit we hadn’t seen before!

Our Little Masterchef display is finally finished in our classroom! We worked really hard on our portraits and made a frame from pasta. We think they look fantastic!

Today we had a wonderful day welcoming our new Toucans. We starter by sharing our news and things we were looking forward to. Our teachers were very impressed with how good we were at listening!

This afternoon we started some self-portraits for our masterchef gallery display. We started by having a close look at ourselves in the mirror. We learnt some skills we needed for drawing our faces then had a go ourselves. Some of us started to use pastels to colour them in. They are going to look fantastic when they are finished!

Today we finished our clay pots by painting them. We think they look wonderful!

Today we made clay coil pots, just like they do in the rainforest! We learnt a lot about how to roll and joining clay making ‘slip’. It was also great fun!