Class 8 really enjoyed their trip to see the author, Ele Fountain as part of ‘The Children’s Bookshow’, at The Bloomsbury Theatre, on Friday 29th September. Ele was a great speaker, and got the audience involved in a quiz. Everybody got excited, trying to work out the correct answers! Ele lived in Addis Ababa for several years, …
Class 5 have been observing their hands using magnifying glasses in order to draw their hand in detail. They then added some beans to their hand to see how they looked when they were holding something.
Topic: Sketching and DrawingRayyan, Victoria, Thasin, Alisha, Zakira, Junaed, Simrah, Zeshan, Amira We looked at a portrait drawing by Lucian Freud of his son Ali; pen drawings called Desert, City, and Hedge, by Phyllida Barlow; two very quick plant drawings by Ellsworth Kelly, called Water-Lily and Grass; Lifeboat, by Victor Pasmore and Harvesting Wheat in …
Topic: Working from our Imagination Scribe: Simrah We asked each other where our ideas come from: memories, dreams, thoughts, things we see and hear, things we like or find strange…and we looked at:Paris Through the Window, and Promenade, by Marc ChagallJoseph’s Dream, and Carlo Crivelli’s Garden, by Paula RegoFootprints, Double Self-Portrait with Bowler Hat, The …
