Painting Apples in Reception

After examining various apples and discussing their characteristics, our Reception children used watercolour paints to represent their chosen apple.  They were encouraged to look closely at the object and consider shape, colour and unique features. 

Art Installations in Year 5

Our art topic this first half term has been about art installations. We were inspired by the Chinese installation artist Cai Guo-Qiang, who creates amazing installation pieces using gunpowder and stencils. We took inspiration from his work to create our own installation pieces, creating our own stencils and using different art medias to make our […]

Harvest in Year 3

This week we have been looking at Harvest and our school motto this harvesttime of ‘Don’t Just Stand There!’. Our focus is on actively doing something to help others in our school and community. We all made our own scarecrows and wrote some inspirational quotes to go with them. We are very proud of our […]

Autumn painting in Nursery

The Nursery children have created some lovely autumn pictures using pine cones, twigs and leaves to paint with autumn colours.

Roald Dahl in Year 3

As part of our Reading and Art topic, Year 3 have had an in depth look at Roald Dahl’s book ‘Danny Champion of the World’. We have really enjoyed reading the story in our classes and finding out all about what Danny and his Dad got up to in the first part of the book. […]

Christopher Columbus in Year 4

In History, the children learnt all about Christopher Columbus and his voyages around the world. We discovered that Christopher Columbus made several trips to try to find a quicker sailing route to Asia. In the countries that he explored on his journeys, he found lots of different foods that were not grown in Europe. Columbus’ […]

Colour Monsters in Reception

Reception had a fabulous week this week, learning all about emotions from the Colour Monster. They used lots of different colours and materials to create their own colour monsters. A fab week for everyone, well done!!

Art in Year 6

Year 6 having been exploring the meanings of paintings and this week we looked at Gassed by John Singer Sargent. The pupils recreated ‘The Imagine’ which allowed them to experience the human side of the imagine: being blind, supported, healed and the importance of companionship and support.  I think you’ll agree they did a really […]

David Bowie in Year 5

This week has been ‘Music Week’ at Lord Scudamore, with particular focus on movies in the 80s. In Year 5 we have had a fantastic week celebrating movies and creating our own trailers by composing the music ourselves. We had a showcase where children could perform to their peers using their own musical instruments and […]

Kandinsky in Nursery

This week the Nursery children have been creating art work inspired by the artist Kandinsky. They used oil pastels to draw circles then painted over the top with water colours. Great work Nursery!