Archive: 23 November 2016

Winter Term 2016 – week 4

Night Skies, Stars and Christmas Robins. Week 4: This week brought to a conclusion the night skies theme, as well as introducing Christmas into the mix – it was all about stars!! After spending the previous weeks looking at and drawing stars, the children were introduced to the ‘technical’ challenge of this workshop block –

Winter Term 2016 – week 3

Night Skies, Stars and Christmas Robins. Week 3: Continuing with the theme of night skies, we revisited the collaborative piece made during week 1. The painted collage background which we covered in beautiful marks creating textures and patterns by applying paint in different ways was used as the backdrop for our nighttime scene. We spent

Winter Term 2016 – week 2

Night Skies, Stars and Christmas Robins. Week 2: Continuing with the theme of night skies, we turned our attention to the beautiful sunsets (and sun rises) that we are blessed with around Angus and Tayside. Often my Facebook feed is filled with amazing photos of fiery skies and I wanted to take advantage of the