Category: Art

The view from our window

Liss pupils from Year 2 have been taking part in a special activity along with Kafuro pupils from P1 & 2. The task was to draw the school – site as if you were looking out of your classroom window, swap the drawings over with pupils from the other school and then compare similarities and differences. The drawings the pupils in both schools produced can be seen below.

Once the pupils had been able to see the photos sent from their peers in the UK/Uganda then they were able to make observations about similarities and differences between the two schools.

Some of the similarities Liss pupils noticed were as follows:

‘I like how they drew people playing together.’

‘The children were playing games like football and skipping which we play

here.’

‘The children look like they are enjoying school.’

‘The children have drawn pictures of the outside and the school building.’

‘They have drawn lots of trees like we did.’

There were also a few differences that Liss pupils noted:

‘They have drawn the Ugandan flags in many of their pictures. We do not have the UK/English flag on display often.’

‘They are not in a school uniform or wearing shoes.’

‘Their play area looks different to ours at school. We have play equipment to climb on and a field.’

‘It looks sunny in all of their drawings!’

‘It looks like they have a large drinking tap outdoors.’

‘Our school buildings look different. They have coloured theirs in yellow/red. It looks like they have shutters on the windows.’

Liss children were really excited about receiving the photos. They had lots of questions to ask the school and wondered about their school day.

They wanted to know what time they began/ended, how many classes there were, how many teachers they had and if there was a school council like in our school. Perhaps, Mr Mukama will provide some answers.

African – themed bags

In Year 6 at Liss Junior School, the children have been creating African – themed bags. The children have researched African art and patterns before creating their own print template. This was then rolled onto the bag to produce the final print. We would like to share our designs with the our friends in Uganda.

Here are the photos of some of the bag designs.

African-style shopping bags

In art, Year 6 children at Liss have been creating their own African-style shopping bags. they looked at a range of African art and patterns before experimenting with their own patterns and creating tiles with which to print. The children then chose colours which they felt represented the vibrancy of Africa.  Some of the best designs are picured below.

African Printing

In art, Rowan Class have been looking at African patterns as we are learning about Uganda. The first thing we did was practise printing, as most of us didn’t know how to do this. We got into groups and worked on how to print different patterns. We had to roll acrylic paint on a palette until it was nice and thick and then we had to roll it on to a polystyrene tile on which we had created a design. The next step was to place the tile on black paper and push it down.

After that, we looked at different African patterns. We researched the patterns at home and brought in some examples to discuss which patterns would be best for our final design. We created an African design in our art books and traced it on to tracing paper, which was then put on to a new polystyrene tile. With a sharp pencil, we dug out the polystyrene on the design lines so it was deep enough. Once this was completed we created a pattern using several tiles on paper before repeating the process on fabric. We left the fabric to dry and in the coming weeks they will be turned in to wall hangings.

We would like to ask our friends in Kafuro whether you use printing techniques for art?

 

 

Welcome back to the new term!

Everyone came back to school after the long summer holidays, in very good spirits. We have enjoyed hearing all about everyone’s news and adventures of what they have been up to during August.

This week, we have introduced our new topic – The Anglo-Saxons. We have a new member of the class who happens to be a Saxon soldier and his name is ‘Bob’.

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This week, we found out that Bob and his community were invited to the UK to help fight a battle. They realised that the land was plentiful and of good quality for growing crops and farming animals, so Bob decided to stay! We will be hearing more from ‘Bob’ as the topic progresses. 

Also this week, we have displayed our work at the Alresford Countryside Show. We were presented with a ‘Highly Commended’ Award. We thank Christopher and his family for accepting this on behalf of the class. Here is a photo of our work on display in the Education Marquee at Alresford Countryside Show this year;

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Well done to all our children who have worked hard on this project and produced some lovely work.

Liss creates clay tiles to celebrate our bees

At the end of the summer term at Liss Junior School, Mr Burford announced there would be a special art project to celebrate the arrival of the bees at our school. This involved six children from every class in the school making special clay tiles with a bee design on them. The tiles are hexagonal shaped to mirror the structure of a real bee hive as shown on the photo below. This was completed before the long summer holiday. The next step was to fire the clay tiles and to glaze them. This has now been done and we will shortly be mounting the clay tiles on the side of the school building. We would like to ask our friends in Kafuro if they will do anything special to commemorate the arrival of their bees and bee hives?

Seven of the tiles that form part of our bee display to be mounted on the side of the school
Seven of the tiles that form part of our bee display to be mounted on the side of the school

Harvest time at Durleighmarsh Farm! – Part 2 with Class HG

On Monday, we visited Alison at Durleighmarsh Farm. We wanted to find out from Alison about the crops grown at the farm this year. We knew it has been a ‘Bumper Harvest’ this year with many fruits and vegetables growing particularly well. We wanted to find out which crops had grown the best and anything Alison had noticed about the farm in general during this ‘special harvest year’.

Alison told us that their best crops for produce this year were Strawberries and Blueberries. This was very good news for everyone in HG as these are our favourites! Alison thought this ‘Special Harvest Year’ was because the hard winter we had, had killed all the bugs that usually are a pest to the plants. With our glorious warm, sunny summer too, the crops had flourished and produced lots of fruits and vegetables. As we walked around the farm, we noticed the tall sweetcorn plants. Alison showed us how to harvest the sweetcorn cobs. We tasted the sweetcorn straight away – it was delicious and so sweet!

Here is our slide show of our visit;

You can find out more about Durleighmarsh Farm by clicking on this link – http://www.durleighmarshfarmshop.co.uk/

On this website you can see a calender of crops grown at the farm and when you can pick them.

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Alison gave us some varieties of squash to have a go at drawing. Here are some of our pictures we have drawn for display in Alison’s shop.

brandon's fruit Brandon’s drawings

Billy's fruit Billy’s drawings

Chelsea's drawings
Chelsea’s drawings

Charlie's drawings
Charlie’s drawings

 

 

 

 

PG in Petersfield

Well, despite the threat of rain and the occasional burst of rain, we had a productive and enjoyable day.  The train journey was speedy and after a snack in the square we were ready for action.

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IMG_1498 The children plucked up all their courage and asked people who were walking in Rams Walk why they were in Petersfield, where they lived and whether they would live in Petersfield or Liss if they were to move.

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Most people were friendly and helpful- they gave us some interesting comments.

We did  traffic survey in the square and were amazed at how many vehicles and pedestrians we saw, compared to the survey in Liss.

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We went to the Heath for lunch and sketched trees afterwards.

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The local wildlife kept us entertained…

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And then we went on a habitat hunt in the Physic Garden.

Thank you to Mrs Stirling, Mrs Gosney and Mrs Cuthbertson for accompanying us and making the trip smooth running- It’s much appreciated!

Now we will be in a better position to fulfil our role as Geography detectives an help the Black family decide which location suits their needs better- Liss or Petersfield?