The Big Draw 2014: Community Afternoon

On Monday 13^th October Robin Hood Primary School took part in The Big Draw.  The 2014 Big Draw runs from 1 October to 2^nd November across the UK and in twenty other countries, with 280,000 people expected to join in over 1000+ events. This year the theme is “It’s our World” and is a celebration of our environment – of urban, rural and coastal landscapes.

The children invited their family and friends into the hall to see their amazing drawing.  The hall was filled with people and many had a go at drawing their own pictures to add to the celebration of the world.

Banners in the Mall at Robin Hood Primary School

Yesterday Mr. Reynolds and Mrs. Mistry helped me (Mrs.Chin) take down the spacemen/robots that had adorned the mall for a while now and in their place three banners have been put up.

The banners have been made with fabric prints created by the children of Key Stage 1 and the Children in Reception and Nursery (Foundation Stage). There are prints on both sides so whichever direction you are walking down the mall you can see them.

During their topic “The Rainforest” the KS1 children learnt about printmaking and produced these fabulous prints by block printing. See if you can spot some animals hiding in the trees and the rain falling on to the forest.

The Foundation Stage children used some experimental techniques to create these monoprints.  As part of the “Animals” topic we looked at the patterns on some jungle animals and recreated them by ripping up paper, laying down wool on to a block and many children overprinted one colour on to a background.

It was great fun making the banners, choosing which prints looked good next to eachother.  Hopefully each time you walk under them you will spot something you haven’t seen before.

To see the prints being made go to http://artandcreativityrobinhood.blogspot.co.uk and click on the label Printing.

Printmaking Workshop - Key Stage1 pupils invite family and friends into school.

To celebrate all the lovely printmaking we had done over the last three weeks in class KS1 invited their friends and family into school to try their hand at printmaking themselves.

The hall soon was filled with people eager to have a go and our children were experts at teaching them what to do.

Printing with jelly was very popular…

As were other types of printing…

The children took home their portfolios of prints which they had been putting together over the past three weeks during the topic in The Rainforest.

They had experienced repeating patterns, monoprinting, jelly printing, block printing all of which can be seen on the Art and Creativity blog http://artandcreativityrobinhood.blogspot.co.uk

Nativity Backdrop for Christmas Productions

In the four weeks leading up to Christmas the Artclub painted a backdrop for four of the Christmas productions. 

It shows a stable in which there are many animals and a manger whilst in the centre your eye is drawn out to the hillside beyond.

It does not have any of the characters featured in the painting as it is to create a setting, and our pupils are the characters on stage.

Often the Nativity scene is pictured looking into the stable.  We liked the idea of looking out to the hillside, beyond.

We were fortunate to have help from Miss Jordan and Miss Campy who helped the children draw and paint their chosen animals or detailed part of the painting.

Once the background was finished we glued our detailed paintings on to it, making a fabulous backdrop, even adding some straw.

In the week before Christmas the two Nursery productions, Reception and Key Stage One productions played out in front of this scene.  It certainly added to the already magical atmosphere.