Big Draw 2014

The annual Big Draw event was a huge success as usual.
Children from every year group attended the installation in the Middle Hall and later Year 1 parents came to draw too.
We invited a musician and storyteller to inspire the children and Ann, Carina and Katy set up a magical stage area.

Detectives

Year 6 detectives stumbled across a crime scene in the Top Hall!

They immediately went into action just as their detective training had taught them and began to note down the evidence. 

Later they were able to interrogate the witness. By using all the information they had gathered, they were able to write newspaper reports and finally a short crime story.

Bulbs

School House children went to Jesus Green to meet with some people from the council. The year 5 children in the group had been learning about their local area with their classes. They had been using ICT and Literacy to gather information about the litter in the area before making films to evaluate what they found out. 
In Jesus Green they learned about another way to improve the area. They were shown how to plant bulbs. The bulbs will develop into plants called daffodils.

The waves are as dark night...

Year 4 published and illustrated poems using similes.

"Council Meeting"

A council meeting has been called 

tomorrow at 9:20 am in the Town Hall.

The issue to be discussed is:

Should graffiti and street art be made legal in certain areas of Tower Hamlets?

All local residents are invited to discuss this idea at the meeting. 

We hope to see you there. 

Year 6 classes used their thinking skills while taking part in a debate about graffiti. In the drama, they all took different roles in the debating chamber; there was a chairperson and a vice chair and the rest were local residents with differing views. I wonder what they decided.

Rivers

The banners in the top and middle hall have been put up and the river scenes from Year 5 classes look spectacular. Here's a preview of the finished banners.

 



The River as imagined by Year 5

Working with Ann and Carina, Year 5 have created stunning banners to hang in the Top Hall. The work has been part of a project called Take One Picture developed by the National Gallery.

The children were first inspired by Bathers at Asnieres by Georges Seurat. They sketched overlooking the Thames and developed their ideas back at school with Ann, Carina and their teachers. They drew figures and bridges in much more detail.

 

Then they tried all sorts of different ways of painting water. You can see different techniques and mark making representing the water on the finished banners.



It is interesting to think about how Year 3 and 5 looked at the same painting and have been inspired to create very different work in response to it.