Art

At St Bartholomew’s, we have designed our own art curriculum. We have done this to allow for lots of organic links with other areas of the curriculum.

Each phase in school looks at a range of artistic topics over a two year cycle. Every year group covers key skills in drawing and painting and then cover a selection of the following: Sculpture, printing, collage and textiles. Year groups then have a range of key skills and understanding to teach the children to ensure they cover all of the objectives from the national curriculum.

Our children each have their own art sketchbook which follows them up through school, tracking their progress as they go through each year group. Children also have an art assessment file, where they produce a self portrait each year to show how much they are improving as they get older.  

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Curriculum - Art - Useful Links

Art for Kids Hub - Art lessons (How to draw for kids)

Tate Kids - Play free art games and fun quizzes, find art activities, read about artists and share your art.

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The children throughout school have all contributed to wreaths in church to mark Remembrance Day.  

 

Class 4 have been getting ready for Remembrance Day by making poppies. 

We used paper plates and coloured strips of paper to make our own poppies.

 

Class 12 have been working on a world war 2 inspired landscape this half term. 

They have used charcoal sketching skills for the landscape, then used watercolours to paint poppies as a remembrance piece too. 

 

This week in art class 12 have used water colour techniques to paint their poppies.

 

Class 12 have finished their war time landscapes this week ready to make the poppies to go on it in the coming weeks. 

 

This week class 13 have studied the war time landscape artist Jaqueline Hurley. They have created an artist focus page in their books and critiqued her work. Everyone’s was different and the children were allowed to be as creative as they wanted with the information given. 

 

Class 6 learnt about weaving through the artwork of Lucy Poskitt, experimented using barring techniques and learnt how to dye material to create a sea texture.

The children then learnt about repeating weaving patterns, before experimenting and practising the art of weaving.

The children then used what they had learnt to dye material and use it to weave a sea scene before adding detail by gluing and seas animals.

 

Class 13 have been drawing a copy of Greek Gods and Goddesses. They have produced some really lovely pieces that they should all be really proud of. 

 

In art pupils have created repeated patterns in weaving in the style of Lucy Poskitt. He are a few of their masterpieces.

 

Class 12 have learnt the skill of making a block print this week. We built on our theme of the Greek Gods, and the children were given an image of their star sign that they turned into a polystyrene block to print with. They then printed their image onto different coloured squares of paper in keeping with our artist Andy Warhol. Well done class 12!

 

In art class 6 have been learning how to weave. They made a loom out of cardboard, learnt to use paper to go over and under, making sure to alternate the layers. I think they did a fantastic job. 

 

This week as part of our art topic on the artist Andy Warhol class 16 learnt the skill of tracing that we will use in the coming weeks to be able to transfer and image onto a tile to print.

 

This is work from years 4,5 and 6 that's gone in display in church the blue display is sustainability based on making sea creatures from plastic rubbish. The green display is a brazilian art display based on the artist Borges.

 

Children in years 5 and 6 enjoyed building the sea creatures from single use plastic.

 

Class 14 researched their sea creature for their sculptures. They then drew each part of their sea creature to prepare for making their sculpture.

 

In art we have continued to learn about collage. Class 6 had a skills lesson practising their collage skills, discovering if cutting, tearing, single or mixed media made the best fire collage. They are going to apply this to their final piece but I think they did a fantastic job. 

 

Class 12 have been bringing in plastic waste for a couple of weeks. Today, in Art, they have chosen plastic waste to re-use to create a sea creature! 

 

Class 12 have been researching various types of sea life and the impact that plastic pollution has on it, as part of a topic on the artist Angela Hastletine Pozzi. Take a look at some of our fantastic work so far!

 

A pupil in class 14 made an amazing sea turtle sculpture inspired by our current art project. Brilliant work, well done!

 

Class 13 learnt about the work of sculpture artist Angela Haseltine Pozzi and her work with @WashedAshoreArt project. Over the coming weeks we will be creating a sea creature sculpture from single use plastic to highlight the impact single use plastic has on our oceans. 

 

In art year 2 have been learning about the collage artist Jesse Treece. They learnt about how his art was created with a background, focal point and foreground and then tried to create their own piece of art work inspired by this. I feel with have some budding collage artists in Class 6. 

 

Class 16 have begun their new art topic (sculpture) this week they have looked at the work of Angela Haseltine Pozzi (@WashedAshoreArt). Over the coming weeks we will be making our own sea creature sculpture from single use plastic. The children were amazed by the art and can’t wait to create their own. 

 

Class 10 have drawn some beautiful nativity artwork. We used a pencil and ruler to create shapes then colouring pencils to create the abstract scenes. It took lots of time and patience but the finished products are very effective. 

 

Today we went to the Yorkshire coal mining museum to learn more about our science topic on rocks. We learnt about how coal was made as well as mudstone, sandstone, limestone and ironstone and what life was like for miners years ago. We also learnt that children the same age as us worked and died down the mines. 

 

Class 10 have been working in the style of L S Lowry, they have used a picture of Victorian Armley as inspiration. First they sketched the street , then added a smoky sky and painted the buildings. Finally they added their matchstick figures. They worked really hard and enjoyed learning a new skill.

 

Class 6 have been creating art work inspired by Leonid Afremov, they painted a background, tested different media, learnt how to draw a castle, learnt how to add texture to wood and brick, before applying it all in a final piece. Class 6 have worked extremely hard and are very proud of what they have created.

 

As part of our Banksy topic, class 15 have learnt and practiced how to make a stencil along with how they work in preparation for their Banksy inspired piece later this term. We have had some fantastic work produced and the children enjoyed learning a new skill.

 

Years 5 and 6 have been practicing graffiti art today, they enjoyed trying different styles and all worked exceptionally hard.

 

In art year 2 children learnt about weaving through the artwork of Lucy Poskitt, experimenting using barring techniques and learnt how to dye material to create a sea texture. The children then learnt about repeating weaving patterns, before experimenting and practising the art of weaving. Class 6 then used what they had learnt to dye the material and used it to weave a sea scene, before adding detail by gluing seas animals. It was a long process and took a lot of patience, but they are all extremely proud of what they created. 

 

Class 14 have used flowers and greenery to make their own nature inspired picture. Thank you to Lenora Rose at the Asda Wortley for their kind donation of some of the flowers.