A New Commission for the Office

Last term Olly approached Year 5 classes to  make a piece of public art for the new office area.
The classes were working with Ann and Carina to develop skills in fine painting so they decided to use these new skills for the commissioned work. They looked at images of Colombian animals and plants, sketching and making collage images as their preparatory work before painting began.

 

Next the children used their ideas and images as they painted wooden outlines of their animals and plants. 

The work is nearly ready to be installed in the office. Watch out for those prowling jaguars and slithering snakes when you visit! 

Coral Class Installation at Peer Gallery

Coral Class worked with artist and filmmaker Savinder Bual on a short animation project. Savinder and some other artists were exhibiting their work through the windows of a local gallery. Coral class made a series of short animations which were then projected through the windows of the Peer Gallery in Hoxton too.

You can see all the animations on our Vimeo site.
http://vimeo.com/columbiaschool

The National Gallery

The beautiful banners from the Top Hall have disappeared! They are going to be part of an exhibition at The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. A curator from the National Gallery visited the school and thought the work was of a very high quality. It has been transferred to a gallery space at The National Gallery ready for an exhibition which will run from June till September. The exhibition will be free. Do try to pop in to see the artworks.

Mayhem at VAFI 5

Coral Class were very surprised to hear that their film Wow! Mayhem in the Music Hall  is being screened at a film festival in Croatia! The film was chosen out of 100's of others to be screened and maybe win a prize. Well done Coral Class, we love your film.

A Squash and a Squeeze

Year 1 have been working on an extended piece of 3D art work with Ann and Carina. 

This supports the learning Year 1 have been doing  this term around their core book, A Squash and a Squeeze.

The children made houses for the old lady in the story and had to go through many different stages .

First they practised their colour mixing skills to paint the outside walls.

Next they printed the front of the house using polytiles.

 They made their own patterned wall paper, with repeating patterns.

   Then they used clay to model animals for their houses.

Finally, they made carpets and furnishings for the inside so their characters could be comfortable.

Beowulf

Year 4 have been studying the story of Beowulf as part of their learning about Anglo Saxons. The story is written as a poem and tells the tale of brave Beowulf who kills the monster Grendel. Anglo Saxons wrote in runes so the classes translated runes to find out about life in Anglo Saxon times.

Anglo Saxons made their own paints and pigments so the classes experimented with making their own paint to illustrate their story of Beowulf. 

The children mixed chalk, berries, ash or charcoal with PVA glue to make home made paints. I wonder which ingredient made which colour.

Transformation

Year 4 children have been basing some of  their learning around the book called The Green Ship during the spring term. Its a book set in an imaginary world. The children went into their classroom to find a green jungle-like world. They have used the book to support their learning about writing stories. They also worked in class to make green ship layered, 3-D type images.

First they made images of ships and then they transformed them by adding an overlay on tracing paper with green leafy and flowery plant images. 
The children continued thinking about transformations as they learned about how natural disasters can dramatically change an environment.They used the same techniques of layering their artworks to make powerful images of before and after destruction of Japan after the tsunami. You can look at the tsunami images on display along the junior stairs.