Year 2 have been reading ’The Beautiful Oops’…

Year 2 have been reading ’The Beautiful Oops’ and thinking about how we can celebrate our mistakes and turn them into something special. #smithdownart @SmithdownPrimY2

Before starting our new Art topic ‘Spirals’…

Before starting our new Art topic ‘Spirals’ – we had a quick practise drawing them on the playground with chalk. What do you think? Are we ready to start creating them in lots of different ways? #smithdownart

We have been learning to draw spirals

We have been learning to draw spirals. This superstar made a spiral using the Lego #smithdownart

Making some spirals out of play dough!?

After looking at spirals in art, these superstars decided to make some spirals out of play dough!?

Artwork inspired by Yinka Shonibare

Look at this amazing artwork inspired by Yinka Shonibare #smithdownart

Super start to our “Painting with Scissors” topic with a focus on Henri Matisse

Super start to our “Painting with Scissors” topic with a focus on Henri Matisse. Amazing inspiration applied to their own work? great work Year 3! #smithdownart #theartsatsmithdown

The children explored his life and paintings ?

4KM had a great afternoon completing their artist study about Paul Cezanne. The children explored his life and paintings ? #Smithdownart

4KM had a great afternoon creating their own still life artwork!!

4KM had a great afternoon creating their own still life artwork!! The children used a lot of different techniques to create their artwork???? #smithdownart

4KM had a great art lesson this afternoon?

4KM had a great art lesson this afternoon? the children started off by exploring the texture of their shoes and then explored textures in still life art work? #smithdownart

4KM had an amazing art lesson creating their own mood boards…

4KM had an amazing art lesson creating their own mood boards using different colours for positive and negative emotions. The children also discovered how they can portray a mood in still life drawings? #smithdownart

We’ve made such a lovely start to our new mixed media landscapes art topic!

We’ve made such a lovely start to our new mixed media landscapes art topic! #smithdownart

This afternoon 5EHD have been looking at different watercolour techniques…

This afternoon 5EHD have been looking at different watercolour techniques ahead of using them as part of a mixed media piece. #smithdownart ?

Today we experimented with different oil pastel techniques

Replication process of ‘Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge’ by Claude Monet

Stage 1 in our replication process of ‘Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge’ by Claude Monet – colour mixing. Impressionism for #smithdownart

Using Henri Matisse’s style, painting with scissors, Year 3 created poppies to show their respect for all the people who have lost their lives and our thoughts for their families.

Remembrance Day

We have created some beautiful poems after reading Flanders Fields and used watercolours/charcoal/pencils to create some poppy artwork to mark Remembrance Day.

Remembrance Day

For Remembrance Day, we read the poem ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and after discussing the content, we embellished the poem with images of poppies.

Year 2 have made remembrance poppies today

2GH made some beautiful poppies to help us remember today.

Remembrance Day – ‘We will remember them’

Diwali Lanterns

As part of our Diwali celebrations, Year 6 made lanterns displaying the symbols of, not only Hinduism, but other religions of the world too.

Year 1 celebrated Diwali and made some beautiful diva lamps.

Diwali candles in 2GH

We have enjoyed creating our own Diwali candles today

Impressionism

We were so blown away by this painting that we simply had to frame it! What a wonderful interpretation of Claude Monet’s ‘The Poppy Field’ by a very talented Year 6 artist ?‍?

Year 1 enjoyed making diva lamps to celebrate Diwali.

Today we have read I Like Trains!

We have printed trains with blocks and made marks to represent train track, trains and signals.

Hot air balloons

We are learning all about different types of transport. We have been making our own hot air balloons using different materials and decorating them.

WWII Liverpool Skyline ‘The Blitz’ Scenes

We created our own versions of the Liverpool skyline one night during The Blitz in World War Two.

The Wizard of Oz – our ticket designs.

We thought some of our ticket designs were just far too lovely not to share!

Hansel and Gretel Mural

A group of our artists are currently working on a mural displaying scenes from Hansel and Gretel, a story we read and worked with last term. Everything has been lightly sketched on and now the girls are applying the colour. We can’t wait to see the finished piece!

Mural update

A little bit more to see …..

We have combined our knowledge of Palaeolithic cave art with skills and techniques acquired from Laura McKendry.

RE: Geometric Patterns

After learning about Mosques, we followed step by step instructions to create our own geometric Islamic patterns. Now they are designed, we are going to colour. How symmetrical can we make them? ?

Matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs …

We have been sketching figures in the style of L.S. Lowry.

Lowry perspective paintings

Following on from our characters, we had a go at one point perspective street scenes in the style of L.S. Lowry.

Hansel and Gretel mural display completed.

How fabulous is this wall? !

Which colours compliment each other?

Painting – Impasto!

2GH have been painting using primary colours. We made sure that the paint was thick so that we could move it around the page and created our own ‘impasto’ techniques.

Expressive Collages! Titanic Art

We worked hard in art today to make expressive collages of the Titanic.

Chinese New Year celebrations

To celebrate the new lunar year, we have been getting crafty in class making representations of dragons using a variety of resources. Look at our fabulous dragons! We also made our own lanterns after learning about the significance of the colour red.

Year 5 pottery painting

Y6 Lowry Museum Trip

Since we have been studying L.S. Lowry, we took a trip to The Lowry Museum in Salford and took part in a portrait workshop after viewing some of Lowry’s famous paintings. We had such a fabulous day!

5EHD final pottery pieces

Our Lowry Gallery

We are so proud of the work our Year 6 have produced within our Lowry unit. Displays everywhere! 

Year 4 have been working hard as illustrators this world book day??!!!

We had an amazing day on world book day! We focused on #Goldilocks and created our own poems and naughty hashtags.

We started our new Art topic, which focuses on natural materials. We used sand and soil to mark make just as Frances Hatch does.

We looked at another artist who focused on natural materials. Anna Atkins used cyanotype to create one of the first books entirely of photographs. This was done with seaweed and without a camera! We used water colours to replicate the colours gain from the process.

Designing our own maps to add OS symbols.

In Geography, we have been designing our very own islands. When completed, they will show OS symbols and we will locate places using 6 figure grid references.

Cyanotype!

Year 3 had a wonderful afternoon creating cyanotype art pieces, influenced by the Artist we are currently exploring, Anna Atkins. The children collected a range of natural materials, placed them on Cyanotype paper, let it sit in the sun for 10 minutes, removed the design and rinsed the paper.
Don’t they look amazing!!!

Cyanotype Art

Year 3 used a very old way of producing photographs without a camera. We used light sensitive paper to create a cyanotype capture. The children created their designs using natural resources found around schools – similar to Anna Atkins.

Bell Beaker Pottery

Super work creating our Bronze Age Bell Beaker pots. We created a similar shape and added patterns to them.

What is a sculpture?

Primal Painting

Year 3 used the pigment from different foods and natural resources to paint and mark make.

Watercolour Skylines

We have started our watercolour skylines to link with our Walking Tour of Liverpool which we wrote in Geography.
not finished yet, but they’re looking good already.

Celebrating one of our Y6 artists

Look at the incredible sketch one extremely talented member of Year 6 has drawn!

Check out our sketches

Liverpool Skyline

Here is a FABULOUS finished skyline picture to accompany our Geography work on our ‘Walking Tours Around Liverpool.’ Amazing work from this young artist.

4KM had a great afternoon exploring and creating sculptures using different media

Our Mythical Creature Clay Sculptures…

Year 3 natural resources!

What a week we have had! Year 3 had a lovely trip to New Brighton to find natural resources so that we could create landscapes in the theme of Frances Hatch. We glued on things we found and used water to extract the pigment out of them to colour paper.

Trip to the beach!

Year 3 had a lovely day at New Brighton! We collected a range of natural materials from the woods and the beach, and used these to create a painting of the seaside. I think everyone’s favourite part was playing in the sand!!!!

Eid Mubarak!

Happy Eid to all our families celebrating! We had a lovely day and week celebrating with all our children and adults.

Volcanoes Eruptions!

We had an amazing afternoon erupting our volcanoes! We even had a very dangerous and violent composite volcano with thick magma which increased the pressure when erupting.

Year 3 Volcano eruptions!

Greek Pottery

We are starting to learn about all the different styles, colours, shapes and uses of Ancient Greek pottery here in Y6.

Our final musical instrument designs

Take a look at some of the fantastic musical instruments we have made in our Art lessons this term.

Painting with scissors

We used Henri Matisse as our inspiration for our art topic. We used his method of painting with scissors to make our collages.

Black History Month ‘24

Some AMAZING entries for the Merseyside Police competition! Children have worked hard creating lovely pieces of work with great messages as well. Well done to everyone who has submitted already. Last day tomorrow (Friday 13th September).

Impression: researching a painting

We have started our journey into Impressionism and after noting our observations, we are now researching one particular painting.

Year 4 Still Life

Year 4 had a wonderful afternoon exploring traditional and contemporary still life artwork. They produced gestural drawings for a piece of artwork by Giorgi Morandi.

Impressionist Sunrises Part 2

We are painting the next painting in our series of impressionist sunrises / sunsets. Using Claude Monet’s work as our inspiration, we will soon have our own two set collection of sunrise themed paintings.

Comparing Giorgio Morandi with modern day life artists

Year 5 Art Adventure: Exploring Perspectives!

Today in Year 5, our budding artists dived into the fascinating world of one-point perspective and atmospheric perspective! They transformed ordinary views into extraordinary landscapes, learning how to create depth and dimension in their artwork.

With guidance our students experimented with lines and shading, making their drawings come alive. The focus on perspective not only enhances their artistic skills but also encourages critical thinking and creativity.

Join us in celebrating their hard work and skill!

Applying Painting with Scissors

Year 3 had a great afternoon applying their painting with scissors skills to some Ancient Egyptian paintings. We discussed the pictures and what we could see, using our art vocabulary. We then had the challenge of focusing on a small part of these images and then had to recreate this.

Art and Nature!

Year 2 have made their own pictures out of natural materials that we have collected.

Observational Drawing

2GH have created some wonderful observational drawings of our leaves today! Check out the details in these images! Good job Year 2!

Sunrise Sunset

We are loving how are paintings are starting to look and how each piece has its own artist’s interpretation.Thank you Claude Monet for the inspiration through our ‘Impressionism’ unit.

What is a colour wheel?

We had so much fun painting our colour wheels and understanding how different colours are made. We discussed primary and secondary colours.

Oil pastel artists!

Today we having been using different oil pastel techniques (sgraffito, dry blending, cross-hatching and tinting) to figure out which ones we want to use for our landscapes.

In Maths,we reinforced our counting skills through finger painting!

Diwali lanterns

Today we are designing our Diwali lanterns for next week. We have learnt the story of Rama and Sita and thought about why Diwali is celebrated in Hindu religion. We are trying to focus on using Rangoli patterns.

Diwali celebrations

Today Year 3 looked at the celebration of Diwali and enjoyed watching how it is celebrated. We enjoyed looking at the different activities and looking at how the Rangoli designs are made!

Diwali Celebrations

Today,  year 3 had a workshop based around Diwali. The children enjoyed learning about this celebration. They learned how it called ‘the festival of lights’ and created their own pieces of art that candle lights are placed in. We got to dress up and took part in a traditional Diwali dance.

Diwali lanterns

We are having so much fun making our Diwali lanterns with rangoli patterns.

Diwali celebrations!!

Year 3 had a wonderful time learning all about the celebration of Diwali and how it is celebrated within the Hindu community. We had lots of fun using a variety of different coloured paints to make Diya lanterns. We looked at and talked about different rangoli patterns and made our own ones. We have lots of amazing artists in our class!

To celebrate Diwali, we made some Rangoli patterns!

Some superb still life drawings

We have been creating our faces using Autumn nature…

Marking Remembrance Day with poppy biscuits and poppy art.

Year 2 Artists

Come and look at our incredible leaves!

Painting with scissors

We used our skills and techniques we have been practising by replicating how Henri Matisse created his art. We applied this method to our Ancient Egyptian topic in History.

We have been busy making poppy art and poppy biscuits today to mark Remembrance Day.

Remembrance Day Poppy Art

After learning about Remembrance Day and importance of the symbol of the poppy, we had time to sketch our own poppies using pencil and oil crayons.

Our leaf drawings using wax crayons and Brusho

We are really proud of our drawings. Our sketching skills have improved so much.

Remembrance Day 2024

11:00 11.11.2024

Huge respect in our class to recognise the soldiers that have fallen in the past. We did a minute silence in the morning and then created amazing poppy art work based on our art topic ‘painting with scissors’ in the afternoon.

Some completed pencil poppy sketches

Some of this work is stunning!

RE: The importance of the mosque in Islam.

We’re now in the Islam section of our RE unit and we are learning all about the sense of community and how the mosque plays an important part in bringing the community together. We took the opportunity to utilise our artistic skills too.

We learnt all about Remembrance Day and made some poppies to help us remember

Mosque sketching

Some completed mosque sketches

We think some of these mosque pictures are incredible！We drew them as part of our RE unit which includes learning about ‘Ummah’ as part of the Islam religion.

A visit from B-Tales!

B-tales shared the story of Jonah and the Christmas twist.

Christmas Twinkly Nativity

Reception and Nursery B have really worked hard to deliver a magnificent performance, full of wonder and magical singing in front of all our wonderful families this week. I would like to thank all of you for your support in taking the time to come and watch the children, as it really makes the difference to your child’s growth, as it builds their confidence. We loved learning all about the twinkly story, and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed performing it to you.

Calligraphy with the Arabic alphabet

Today in our art lesson we looked at different examples of Arabic calligraphy and have had a go at our own.

Parent assembly and activities Year 3

We had a lovely morning with our Hands assembly and our DT craft activities. Thank you to all our adults who turned up to support us.

Glitter fun

Lots of fun today decorating our stars.

Christmas arts and crafts workshop

What a lovely afternoon! Thanks to all the parents that came and helped out with the winter crafts. They all looked amazing.

Parent & carers craft afternoon

A wonderful afternoon with our fabulous parents and carers.

L.S. Lowry

Our first lesson in our new art unit of an artist study: L.S. Lowry. We are finding out about his instantly recognisable style and most famous paintings.

Pottery making

We had a lovely afternoon starting our pottery. We followed our designs to make an object (bowl, vase, cup) and etched some designs in. We are looking forward to painting in the next couple of weeks.

Lowry figures

Today we had a try at sketching some figures in the style of Lowry. We think they are great for a first attempt.

Ness the nurse

Our story this week is Ness the nurse. We have been painting pictures of her.

Charcoal

We all loved exploring charcoal, mark making and smudging on our page. We remembered lots of information about the artist we are studying as well – Laura McKendry.

Lowry figures part 2

After trying Lowry figures in perspective, we had a go today at sketching a group of figures.

Who was Emmeline Pankhurst?

We have been finding out exactly this! Along with research and presentation, some of us sketched our own pictures of Emmeline too!

Complimentary Colours

Yesterday we created artwork using a colour wheel to discover complimentary colours. We then created mosaic patterns inspired by Gaudi’s Trencadis technique. The media we used was oil pastel.

150 Years of Smithdown

We created some designs that we may use for our 150 year bunting. We will practise stitching so that we can attached our designs.

Palaeolithic Cave Art

We all collaborated to create cave art using charcoal. Combining art skills and history knowledge means amazing work!

Imagining we are cave people!

Today, year 3 mixed their history knowledge on the Palaeolithic cave people with their art skills by recreating cave art with charcoal. The children worked like our artist Laura McKendry  and completed a group activity on the floor. This allowed them to work on a bigger scale and move around their work.

We have been mark making the skunk and elephant from our book.

We have been busy celebrating Luna New Year.

Art – mosaics

Year 4 designed their Roman inspired mosaics using technology before creating their own paper version.

We’re very excited to create our mosaics next week using tiles.

5JH Lion dance to celebrate the Lunar new year!

We had an amazing afternoon in our lion dancing workshop. Happy Lunar New Year!

Lowry inspired scenes

We tried our hand at creating street scenes in the style of L.S.Lowry today.

Creating our own mosaic tiles!

More artwork in our Lowry unit

We are really getting to grips with sketching and painting in the style if L.S. Lowry. Please enjoy some more of our work.

Palaeolithic Stone Age

We made art that we would find in Palaeolithic caves. We worked together and made our caves walls as realistic as we could.

Amazing Roman inspired mosaics by Year 4

Mosaics! Mosaics! Mosaics!

We made a ceramic mosaic tile in groups using glass tesserae. Our designs are stunning!

Our designs for our 150 Year bunting are really coming along. We are going to stitch “TOGETHER WE GROW” along with some pictures that remind us of school.

Superstars in Year 3

We love children doing work at home!

Art project

What an amazing start to our art project. The children created their very own paper and then decorated it. Next in our sustainability art project is to up cycle clothing. We can’t wait for the outcomes.

The Man with the Red Eyes

We started our own versions today of one of Lowry’s most famous paintings.

Getting creative with Supertato

We made some fantastic Supertato pictures using real potatoes to print with.

Y3 Sustainability Project with Metal

Y3 have been busy making their own paper out of pulp this morning with our visitors from Metal.

Visit from an artist

Year 3 had a great afternoon making their own recycled paper and adding their own designs to this.

Heart Art

To accompany our learning about the circulatory system and the heart, we have produced some of our own artwork and posters linked to the topic.

World Book Day

Year 6 have drawn their own versions of some books they have enjoyed reading for World Book Day.

Happy World Book Day

World book day

Today the children have had lots of fun dressing up as their favourite characters. We enjoyed learning all about the 101 Dalmatians and trying to find them around our school. We had lots of fun designing and decorating our own Dalmatian dogs with paint and cups!

The Dalmatians are safe once again!

Today we had a visit from Cruella De Vil who wanted to steal all of the Dalmatian puppies, luckily the classes were able to find all 101 of them and saved the school! What an amazing World Book Day 2025.

World Book Day 2025

Year 3 had a lovely day celebrating world book day. We read the story ‘101 Dalmatian’s’ and completed a book review on this. We also created our own dogs out of cups and black circles. In the afternoon, we learnt a new art skill in pointillism to paint our own Dalmatians.
All the costumes were amazing, thank you for yours efforts.

Scientist Study – Alexander Miles

To begin our British Science Week activities, year 3 researched a new scientist. We discovered that Alexander Miles invented automatic elevator door in 1887. We completed a research activity on the IPads and created our own art piece of Alexander using art skills of continuing the picture and shading.

Lowry murals

Some extremely proud artists of their work today, and why not, as it is absolutely STUNNING!

A new scientist to learn about for Y6

As part of our Science Week work, Year 6 learnt about Ibn Al-Haytham, the man credited with inventing the pinhole camera. As our Lowry portraits were so good, we couldn’t resist applying our artistic skills to this wonderful scientist too.

Art in English? So much fun!

In English this week, we were inspired by the character Willaim Beech’s love of art and painted some of the setting descriptions from Little Weirwold. some example examples to create imagery from our book Goodnight Mr Tom. 

Creating a beanstalk

We created a beanstalk using green ribbon and paper. We imagined it was leading up to the giant’s castle.

Ruth Wakefield – science week

For science week, we researched Ruth Wakefield. We learnt all about the temperatures needed and the variables that she changed. We then had a lesson in cookie making with our wonderful cook Monica and decorated the cookies with her face.

Lowry Digital Art

We are creating Lowry street scenes using digital imagery.

Painting sunflowers

We enjoyed painting sunflowers as we watched our own sunflower seeds begin to grow. We shared a story called Camille and the Sunflowers and looked at a famous sunflower painting by Vincent Van Gogh to help us with our painting.

Eid celebrations!

Today we learnt about Eid and took part in some 3D pop ups.