LS.Lowry Inspired Drawings
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Our Year 5’s have been doing some amazing drawings inspired by the fantastic artist, LS. Lowry. Check them out below.
Year 6 Valerie Ganz Art Work
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Year 6 have been using charcoal and learning about the artist Valerie Ganz. Beautiful detail and shading achieved from these talented young artists. ❤
Year 5’s Science Plants🌼
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Flowers aren’t just beautiful, they’re actually complex reproductive systems! Y5 had the opportunity to dissect a flower to get an inside look and some hands-on experience.🌼
FS2 Exploring Electricity⚡
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The children enjoyed exploring electricity today. We talked about switches on devices and how these work. The children used fantastic partner talk to think of some electrical devices that that use at home. The children experimented with circuits in their play to work out how electricity travels.
The Wonderful Weavers of FS2
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Today we have been learning about the artist Anna Ray. Children have enjoyed creating their own interpretation of textile art that was inspired by ‘Capture’. ‘I enjoy weaving. It was tricky but I did it’- Sophie ‘This is a circle like the Kandinsky calendars we did at Christmas’- Jacob
Vitality Park Run
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Year 4’s Kandinsky Print🎨
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Over the last 3 months year 4 have been enjoying trips to the local library , carrying out different activities in line with our topics in school. This week we learned about different artists and their style of work.🎨 We recreated a Kandinsky print for Miss Roper to hang in her office.
Forces with Foundation 2
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The children enjoyed experimenting with different forces today. We thought about how we could make cars travel down the ramps faster and slower. We realised that cars travelled faster down the taller ramps. We also built our own pulley system to transport the playdough on the fine motor table!
Year 4s Andy Warhol Art
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As artists in Y4 we have been studying the artist Andy Warhol and created our own pop art of our own self portraits!🎨 What amazing artists we have at Ashwood.
Year 4s Morning with Sile Sibanda
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Year 4 had a great morning working alongside poet and presenter Sile Sibanda. We immersed ourselves into the world of poetry. We used different concepts to generate different ideas. We can not wait to have our next session next week, leading up to our Poetry Slam and performance at Rotherham Civic.