Homerswood
Primary and Nursery School
‘A pathway to grow, be curious and discover’
Art at Homerswood
Art at Homerswood
From January 2021 Homerswood will be using the Kapow Art scheme of work. This is an exciting and fun scheme which reflects a clear progression of skills.
Children develop their creativity and imagination through a range of activities. They learn to investigate materials and control tools. They learn new techniques with colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. They develop their skills in drawing, painting and sculpture, using sketchbooks to collect record and evaluate their ideas. The children also learn about great craftsmen, artists and designers. There is an opportunity to evaluate work where the children can critique their own work and that of others.
Each term the children are encouraged to create piece of artwork for the school gallery. Prizes are awarded for the most creative ideas. Good luck and have fun!
Art Subject Leader Guidance
Our Gold Standards
Autumn Term 2022
Homerswood will continue to use the KAPOW scheme of work to ensure the coverage of the curriculum in to the second term of the academic year. This term the pupils of Homerswood will be learning a variety of new art skills through a theme selected for their year group. The range of techniques that will be covered are as follows:
At the seaside: Landscapes using different media | Exploring human form: Collage, portrait and sculpture | Prehistoric Art: Design, drawing,craft, painting, art appreciation | Every picture tells a story: Analysing famous artist’s work Paul Cezanne, Edward Hopper, | Every picture tells a story: Analysing famous artist’s work Banksy, Andy Warhol, Magdalene Odundo | Photography: Photomontage and self portrait |
Photos and further information will be added fortnightly so check here regularly to follow and celebrate the pupils hard work!
Impact Statements
Here are Year 5's reduced scale art galleries in the style of installation artist Cai Guo Qiang.
Year 5 had an amazing trip to the Tate art gallery. They were able to consolidate and extend their art knowledge.
We continue to celebrate the range of Art work taking place across the school.
Year 3 loved exploring tie-dye with some amazing results! 20/06/22
Amanda Morall the Art teacher from Sherrardswood School came to judge our Art work which we completed during Art week. 15/06/22
We loved celebrating Art week with a range of activities and techniques.
Year 5 have been developing a range of techniques and styles during their Art lessons.
Exploring Pre Historic art in lower Key Stage Two. 4/3/22
Year One have been exploring the meaning of "texture" and adding various materials to create this effect. 31/1/22
Reception have been exploring different art techniques to create their Humpty Dumpty pictures. 17/1/22
Autumn 2021
Art learning is well underway in classes and the children are enjoying exploring and developing their art skills and researching a variety of artists. This term, through a spiral curriculum, the children will be practising formal elements of art and design (Shape, line colour, texture, pattern, tone) to develop full appreciation for the subject and its form.
Remember to check here regularly to see exciting art updates and photos of work from across the school!
Year 2 creating firework paintings and decorating breadsticks to make edible fireworks
Year 6 have been working on emotions and feeling through art and were inspired by the artist Kathe Kollwitz. They used charcoal to draw a portrait of a person thinking carefully about what the facial features should look like for different emotions. A variety of vocabulary was used and the children explored the art skills of shading and smudging.
Year 2 have been painting concentric circles in the style of the artist Clarice Cliff
Year 5 have been working on collages using sweet and chocolate packaging as inspiration. They have worked hard on this and the results are fantastic!
Sokari Douglas Camp is a Nigerian artist who is famous or her sculptures. Her work is predominantly sculptured in steel. She takes a lot of inspiration or her work from her Nigerian heritage and culture. We were inspired by her work 'The World is Now Richer' which was made as a tribute to people who lived their lives as slaves. She shared the important message: 'We were brave, we were strong and we survived'. We created our own pieces of Art work in the same style. We thought of a word to describe an attribute that the consider to be important.
Reception have been using natural materials to make leaf pictures of people. Very creative!
Each class have created a display to represent their class artist.
Nursery-Salvador Dali
Reception- Claude Monet
Year 1- Henri Matiisse
Year 2- Banksy
Year 3- Bridget Riley
Year 4 - L.S Lowry
Year 5 - Andy Goldsworthy
Year v6 - David Hockney
Class Artists
The Royal Mail competition entries.
Year 2 have been studying the human form. Look at their amazing Art work. Did you guess who was who?
Knitting club
The Wheat Quarter Art Competition entries. The children have been invited to participate in an exciting art project to create designs to decorate the hoardings near the old Shredded Wheat factory in W.G.C. The theme of the project is Work, Live and Play.
The children at Art Club decorated watering cans and made flowers.
School Gallery work
The Big Draw - Year 3 and 4
Art Gallery Spring - Choose a character from a book to draw, paint or sculpt.
FUDGE Morning. Look at this fabulous Art work from our very creative dads.
Winter Wonderland gallery pictures
Haileybury Prep and Primary Schools' Festial of Arts competition 2015.
We are delighted to announce that the two winners of the competition were Louie Woodgate yr4 and Jamie Mills yr6. The two runners-up were Aadya Rajesh yr3 and Ana Barron yr6. These children have been invited to attend the award ceremony at Haileybury School on the 6th of June.
All entries will be on display to the general public on Thursday 4th June and Friday 5th June between 2.00 and 4.00pm.
See the wonderful entries from Homerswood below.
Competition entries
