We’ve been learning about Henri Matisse and how his art evolved from earlier artists before becoming one of the most original and influential artists of the 20th century. Matisse was influenced by the Mediterranean Sea and we recreated an early painting before exploring his use of paper cut-outs later in his life.

Open Window, Collioure (1905)

Icarus (1944)

Les Bêtes De La Mer (1950)

We have been looking at the French Revolution and we made a piece of word art out of all the words and names to do with the Revolution.  It was huge!

We’ve been doing still life sketching today, using a range of pencil types from hard to soft to explore line and shading. But what to draw? To fit in with our science topic we’ve been drawing animals bones, particularly skulls. It was a bit strange at first but we’ve been able to study the shapes and the different teeth very closely.

Year 4’s Roman town is coming together with just the final touches needed before we can take a tour of our creation…

The past few weeks we have been looking at Roman villa.

We are making our own Roman villas and we are doing it in pairs.

At the end we are going to put them to together so it can be a Roman town.

We have been taking some pictures of our Roman villas.

These are just some of thirty different amazing  models of Roman villas.

Year 4 have had lots of fun making mosaics and now we’ve put them altogether to make one great big wall. We think it looks amazing!

4RF have been drawing with chalk, white pencil and charcoal on black paper to explore light and darkness. It was really fun to draw with something different from pencil.

We have been making life-sized pictures of Celts and Romans. We had to research what they looked like and then had great fun painting the different people.

4RF had fantastic fun making mosaics today. We created some great designs and then put them together to make one big “floor”. Now, how do we install authentic underfloor heating?  4RJ will be making their mosaics soon, so watch this space…