OWLS CLASS DT DAY!

Owls class have had a day full of designing, creating and making today, as they made a moving toy with a cam mechanism as part of their DT topic.  They worked in pairs to design and make their toy by sawing, painting, gluing, drawing and fixing each part of their model.  We are NEARLY finished so watch this space for the final product.

Team Zebra's work is done...!

We are proud to unveil our contribution to the Marwell Zany Zebra project. Our Team Zebra have been working hard over the last few weeks and months to complete our art work before it's collection and display in Southampton. The theme behind our Zebra has been very much about learning at Bitterne Manor and the design features our 'Head, Heart and Hands' logo and the school colours. The children have suggested various names for the Zebra - Lulu, Deborah, Zebra McZebraface... and we will decide shortly. The Zebra has however been very much Bitterne Manor'd!

Team Zebra: Green going on...

Team Zebra are back at work after the Easter break. The green design is starting to take shape... some very careful brushwork is required now and we're having to scale back and refine some of our original ideas. It's looking very good though!

Pop this Art!

 We couldn't resist sharing some this rather cool looking 'Pop art' by Year 6. Very imaginative!

Year 4 Kathakali Workshop

Hello everyone, we are Natasha and Hannah - this term’s editors for the class blog. Welcome to Year 4’s section of the blog.

 

 

We have been learning about Kathakali traditions and made some masks. 

 

 

We made lots of fun and colourful masks and concentrated very hard on them.

 

 

 

 

The teacher was called VJ, he taught us some sign language. We learnt one sentence it was ‘I am angry because the strong wind destroyed my flowers.’

Once we came back from the workshop, Victoria and Natasha showed us a presentation they had made about Jehovah witnesses.       By Natasha & Hannah

 

 

Year 4 have been making Mayan Batiks

We have been looking at Mayan artwork and have been making our own Batik

We carefully drew our designs onto fabric before tracing over with PVA glue.
After it had dried,  we used clothes dye to stain each panel with bright colours!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy St Patrick's Day!

A special treat for assembly today as we were entertained by Katie and her superb Irish dancing! Katie has been dancing for many years know and has received countless awards for her efforts. She was also promoting her dance school and for more information about this please contact kjbmc21@aol.com at the 'Blair McCarthy School of Irish Dancing' or phone 07969 214290.

RE workshop for years 3 and 4

It was great to welcome Chris and his team back to school for another workshop. This time the theme was 'creation'. We learnt about THE MIGHTY ONE and made a comic strip of the creation story:

We made 'something out of nothing' too. First with clay then with junk modelling. An exciting afternoon trading in tokens for craft junk, with fabulous results.

Senior Citizen Concert

 Local senior citizens and grand parents were welcomed to school yesterday to enjoy the KS1 nativity and songs by our KS2 choir.

Let's Rock with Year 5!

Thanks to Year 5 for their excellent and entertaining Rock and Roll assembly. It was brilliant! I think they enjoyed themselves as much the audience did. You can see in these pictures how amazing they looked! 

Year 4 visit the Art Gallery

Our Art topic this term is portraits, so Year 4 decided to go and view a selection of original paintings and sculptures at the Art Gallery in Southampton. In addition to studying and making observational drawings of artwork in both traditional and modern styles, the class enjoyed a workshop session. They learnt how to draw a face with features correctly proportioned. Then using just one length of wire, they bent the wire following the outline of their drawings to create a 3D wire sculpture. Facial features were added with pipe cleaners, beads and ribbon. The finished sculptures look amazing!

 

Year 3 - Monet Art Day

Year 3 have been lucky enough to have local artist Iris Hill support and share their Monet Art day this week.

Taking focus on the work of Monet, Year 3 went on a creative journey through finger painting, mixing of colours, mood boards and  water colour techniques which led them to produce a gallery ready final piece!  

Iris Hill was very impressed with the enthusiaium and talent within the class "This was a really  inspirational day which allowed the children to express their own ideas and develop their creative skills".

ALL work will be displayed in Year 3's Monet Gallery this Thursday between 3:00-4:30.

Everybody is welcome to share in this experience with Year 3.

For more information on local artist Iris Hill visit http://irishill.wordpress.com  

Mixing colours

                                                                       Getting messy!

                                               Monet's Water Lily and bridge interpretation

                                                                     Colour mixing

                                                      A final gallery worthy piece!