St Mary's Catholic Primary School
Working Together for the Good of Each Other
Art
At St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Personal, Social, Health, and Economic (PSHE) education is embedded within our
overarching curriculum that prepares our children for many different aspects of their lives.
Our overall goal is to help our children to become well-rounded individuals with strong character, who will eventually go out into the world of adults and be actively and positively involved in society. In order to do this, we are striving to create a conducive environment around the school and this year we have created our own specific Personal Development Curriculum that is entwined with our academic curriculum.
Our curriculum aims to provide engagement and enrichment and through this, we aim for all children to have equal opportunities to thrive together.
What does Art look like at St. Mary's?
Our Art curriculum develops creativity and inspires children. Through challenges, we seek to equip our children with the knowledge and skills to explore and engage within a range of materials in order to experiment, design and create their own work.
Our curriculum aims to enable the children to reach and exceed their potential at St Mary's Catholic Primary School.
We celebrate children's achievements and showcase the skills and progress they have made when displaying and sharing the work they create.
Academic year 2024 - 2025
Art in Flute Class- The class went around the playground searching for different textures they could find.
Art in Bodhran Class
We have learnt about different lines including horizontal, vertical, zig zag, wavy, broken, diagonal and cross hatched. We have used different lines with a variety of felt tips, wax crayons, chalk, pencils and even string to create different effects with lines.
Accordian Class
Art in Harp Class
Autumn term: Seeing and drawing like an artist. Children have been learning how the use of shapes, shading, and texture in art, enhances their drawing skills. It emphasises developing a sense of light and dark, using frottage for texture, and experimenting with different tools to create expressive and abstract art. They have all enjoyed being creative.
Art in Saxophone class
Meeting a local artist
We were lucky enough to meet a local artist this week! They are creating a mural on Mount Street and they took time out of their day to talk to us about the Big Heart Project. This art work linked nicely with a mini debate in class as to whether mural art/street art is graffiti or art.
Art - Making my Voice Heard
In Art, our topic is making our voice heard. In particular, we've been looking at Mayan Art work. We've been experimenting with different textures using paint and other materials, we've used charcoal and we've also connected with our spirit character.
Academic year 2023 - 2024
Art Potter Class
Our Art topic this term is prehistoric paintings, we have been learning about why paintings are prehistoric and what makes them prehistoric. We have started this topic by exploring prehistoric art and identifying features. We have also started to create our own prehistoric art using animals as a key focus. We collected natural products to produce pigments to make our own prehistoric palette.
Lionni Class
In Robinson Class we have been exploring how our drawings can be developed by combining different materials for effect. We can identify the features of a self portrait and have developed ideas towards an outcome by experimenting with a range of materials and techniques.
Using all of these skills we have created our own mixed media self-portraits!
Lionni Class have been map making.
Art - Potter Class
During our art lessons we have been looking at Ancient Egypt. We have been making our own paper in the style of the Ancient Egyptians, staining paper, using the Egyptian patterns and drawing and painting in the style of an ancient civilisation.
Lionni Class creating a range of art through ICT.
Art
We have studies Maya Art throughout our topic where we've 'made our voice heard' and used different shading, tones and techniques. We've als learnt how to do chiaroscuro.
Ancient Greek Pottery Painting
Today, we painted our Ancient Pottery in orange and black, colours used to on the original Ancient pottery.
Ancient Greek pottery
Sendak class harnessed their pottery skills this morning to create a pot or bowl with an Ancient Greek theme. The aim was to use intricate patterns and markings to represent an aspect of Ancient Greek life that we have explored earlier in the topic. The designs are outstanding and we can't wait to show off the painted, finished pieces later next week.
Making sculptures out of natural resources, wool and play doh. Just look at our creations!
Rock painting in Holmes class as part of out Earth Art project.
This week King Class have been learning about impressionism, pointillism and Piet Mondrian's line art and creating our own using purple mash. What do you think?
King Class have been learning all about Henri Rousseau, making fact files and then designing their own portrait, landscape paintings and animal masks.
King Class-Super sculptures. We studied different sculptures of the human form. First the children made the human form with simple objects, then they made the human form with clay. Next they made sculptures with inside and outside surfaces. Finally the children used paint to make different effects.
Shelly Woods Class - Ancient Greek Pottery Painting
