Our Local Area

As part of our topic on the local area, Sapphire and Silver classes used our sketching, painting, printing and photography skills to create our own Columbia Road!

First we went on a walk to sketch the buildings and features of the local area.

Then we made our own buildings, using colour mixing and printing to make them look real.

We took photos of each other and thought about how we wanted to look. Can you tell what some of us are doing or how we are feeling?

Year 3 Mural

Year 3 continue the work on their huge 3-D mural inspired by 'Bathers at Asnieres'. They have painted the 3-D models and the next step was to add the details to the background.


These children are working collaboratively to stencil small details of waves to make the water more realistic.

Latin Jazz Day

Continuing the celebrations of Black History Month, our brass, percussion, recorder and guitar students worked alongside leading Latin instrumentalists to develop our understanding of Latin music and its African roots.

The day culminated in a performance for parents in the top hall and a video of this for those who could not attend will soon be on our vimeo site.

Bhangra dance and drum workshop

As part of Black History Month celebrations, children in Year 5 have been working alongside a drum teacher and Bhangra dance teacher to learn new drum and dance skills. Children had a chance to use dhol drums as well as the school's djembe drums. 

The children worked with the specialist teachers over a number of weeks, learning new skills and enjoying themselves immensely.Finally, they performed their music and dance to other classes in the school.

Bridges and Figures

Year 5 are continuing work with Ann and Carina to make artwork inspired by Georges Seurat's Bathers at Asnieres. They have been doing detailed sketches of bridges, trees, 'street furniture' and figures.
Next they turned their images into stencils and practised stencilling them onto large sugar paper.

 

 

Bathers at Asnieres

 

 

Year 3 and 5 are taking part in The National Gallery's 'Take One Picture' project this year. They went to sketch the Thames and then went to look at Georges Seurat's painting, Bathers at Asnieres. The painting inspired Year 5 to make their own images.

 

 

 

 

Year 3 are making a wooden mural of the Thames inspired by the same painting. They are in the process of making sculptural images that will come together like a giant jigsaw. The pupils are excited that their mural will be displayed in the library.

 

 

 

 







On the Hungerford Bridge...

Yesterday, Turquoise and Coral went out on an Art trip. They were sketching on The Hungerford Bridge and a familiar face walked by. It was Mary!

 

 

She was very pleased to see that Columbia pupils were out and about sketching so near the beginning of the year.
Remember, her message to us was..."Keep sketching!"

 

There were some problems with the blog entries last year and some of you have said they didn't seem to be updating. So I'll attempt to keep on top of the technical things this year! PJ