Glebe offers pupils an array of enrichment activities to provide exciting, stimulating experiences that enhance our curriculum and children's individual learning.
Art at Glebe runs as a ‘spiral curriculum’ – using the six main forms of art (painting, drawing, textiles, printing, collage and sculpture) which develop as the children move through the school. So an art form eg. Painting will begin in Year 1 and then further developed again in Year 3 and 5. All art units begin by learning the relevant art vocabulary and focussing on an artist which will inspire our artwork. By completing an artist study, we aim to broaden the children’s understanding of art through history and key historical events.
Year 2 completed a drawing unit linked to their castles topic and studied the work of Paul Klee to inspire their own artwork. The children developed their drawing skills and produced some amazing artwork.
In Year 5, we completed a textiles based art unit linked to our topic ‘Not all heroes wear capes’. We began by learning about the textile vocabulary, completing a textiles timeline and learning about Faith Ringgold, a textile artist. Her work inspired us to create our own kindness quilts using various sewing skills we had developed during our art lessons.
In Year 6 topic of the Ancient Greeks, they children looked closely at mosaics and how they were created hundreds of year ago. They children used ‘paper tiles’ to imitate Greek style mosaic art and then designed their own mosaics inspired by their Ancient Greek topic.
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