Crook Primary School
Crook Primary School
Over the last two weeks we have been studying George Catlin. Catlin is a portrait artist from Pennsylvania, who travelled America to paint and record the lives of the Native Americans.
We have been improving our observational drawing skills and using chalk and charcoal to create effective shading and highlights. We are going to finish our final piece using collage techniques.
Year 1 and 2 have spent the last 2 weeks designing and making our very own carriages. We looked at the different components needed for a carriage and learned the function each component has. We needed to include wheels, axles and a sturdy chassis to begin with and then we created a beautiful main body for our carriages. We can't wait to bring our carriages home to show you all!
Today we celebrated the end of a very hard-working term with a Halloween 'Monster-Mash up'. We all enjoyed dancing and games in the hall to some spooky tunes whilst the Voice of Crook judged our costumes and handed out sweeties during a game of 'Monster Statues'.
Well done to our 'Best Dressed' winners in KS1 - Hunter-James, Mason and Archie. You all looked incredible!
Happy half-term everyone!
It is safe to say that everyone had a fantastic time participating in our annual 'Muddy Mayhem' afternoon. Thank you for coming, cheering your child on, and in some cases, participating! We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
In art, KS1 have been exploring the work of Pablo Picasso. We have loved replicating Picasso's cubism work. We have greatly improved our observational drawing skills to make sure our artwork was as wonderful as Picasso's masterpieces.
Our objective by the end of a 2 week period was to create a print of a new coin, featuring King Charles' portrait. We developed our monoprinting skills and worked on both additive printing and subtractive printing methods.
We hope you love our prints of a Picasso inspired King Charles.
What a wonderful start to the autumn term! We are very impressed with how well all of the children in 1L, 1-2M and 2D have settled back into school life! We can see already that we have lots of hard working children and we can't wait to see what the year ahead has in store! Watch this space for regular updates of our learning and all of the fun things that we will enjoy.
Please can we ask that all items of clothing, both indoor and outdoor, are labelled with your child's name and class. This makes it much easier for us to get them back to the correct child. Many thanks!
PE will be each Thursday. We would recommend that PE kits are sent in and just left on pegs for the half term rather than you trying to remember them each week. Again, please ensure that these are labelled.
Miss Macieira
Miss Lywood
Mrs Dodds
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