This week, HFS students enjoyed a variety of Halloween-themed art activities.The upper-year students created different Halloween character masks, drew skeletons, and designed Halloween posters.The younger students expressed witches over their own face photos, made pumpkin baskets, and created 3D spiders and spider webs.It was a week full of fun and creative art lessons.Have a wonderful […]
Mr Dunn’s Class – Art Update – T1-W9
This week, HFS students enjoyed a variety of Halloween-themed art activities.The upper-year students created different Halloween character masks, drew skeletons, and designed Halloween posters.The younger students expressed witches over their own face photos, made pumpkin baskets, and created 3D spiders and spider webs.It was a week full of fun and creative art lessons.Have a wonderful […]
Mrs Sim’s Class – Art Update – T1-W8
This week, the children celebrated Halloween through a fun and colourful art project. They began by drawing spider webs, recalling what they had learned about primary and secondary colours to make their webs bright and creative. The children enjoyed experimenting with different colour combinations and patterns to fill their spooky designs. Next, they made 3D […]
Miss Staines’s Class – Art Update – T1-W8
This week, the children explored Claude Monet’s Garden and learned about his famous painting The Water-Lily Pond. They focused on how Monet captured light and colour in his work. The children used oil pastels to draw the bridge, carefully layering different colours to create depth and texture. In the next session, they will continue by […]
Mrs Temple’s Class – Art Update – T1-W8
This week, the children proudly completed their Self-Expression on Their Magazine project. They showcased their individuality by designing magazine covers that reflected their personalities, hobbies, and dreams, using a mix of drawing, collage, and typography techniques. We also began learning about the French artist Jean Jullien, known for his bold lines, humour, and expressive illustrations. […]
Mr Dunn’s Class – Art Update – T1-W8
We have been exploring the 7 Elements of Art — line, shape, form, space, texture, value, and colour — through a creative, leaf-inspired project. Each pupil selected a leaf shape and divided it into sections to represent each element visually. They experimented with a variety of techniques and materials to express the different elements, using […]
Y1-2 Art Class Update T1-W6
This week, our Year 1–2 children explored how colours can express emotions. We began by sharing ideas about what feelings different colours bring to mind. Then the children experimented by blowing paint to create imaginative patterns, which became the base for their very own “Emotion Monsters.” Each student added unique facial expressions and body parts, […]
Y3-4 Art Class Update T1-W6
Discovering Impressionism with Monet This week, our students began learning about Impressionism, an art movement that started in the late 1800s. At that time, the invention of the camera made many people wonder if painting was still necessary. But instead of giving up, a group of artists turned this challenge into an opportunity. They began […]
Y5-6 Art Class Update T1-W6
This week, we continued with our main art topic, “Express Yourself.” Building on last week’s work with self-portrait collages, students expanded their ideas by creating magazine cover artworks that highlight their identity. Using their own photographs, combined with images, colours, words, and design elements, they began to design covers that communicate who they are and […]
Y7-9 Art Class Update T1-W6
The Year 7–9 students first learned about light and shading before practicing how to draw spheres, cylinders, and cubes. They explored different hatching techniques to show value and create the effect of light and shadow. After that, they applied these skills to drawing trees, using both pencil shading and watercolours to experiment with how tone […]