Art
This term, in art, the children have been experimenting with
block printing ink to create monoprints. We are re-creating The Big Frieze by
Emma Yarlett. This piece of artwork is part of our ‘Understanding Christianity’
topic in RE, written by Stephen Pett. KS2 have been given panel 3-4: People of
God, which covers many generations of God’s followers. The panels hint at the
journey they travel referencing bible stories such as Moses and the Ten
Commandments and Joseph freeing the slaves in Egypt.
In order to replicate this Lowry-esque section, we have been
experimenting with different mediums from observational drawing of architecture
to monoprinting and photography. This week, the children enjoyed a walk into
Ledston village. They photographed interesting and important buildings and
architecture that we could use to replace the industrial buildings in the piece
and make our work more personal and relevant. They also had a chance to draw
Kirkstall Abbey from a to scale model provided by Artemis- the museum and art
gallery service run by Patsy Lyttle. The children have also been perfecting
their printing and font skills (writing must be printed backwards) in
preparation of the final construction over the next month.
R.E.
Artist Emma Yarlett’s wall frieze illustrates seven of the
eight core concepts that are explored in the ‘Understanding Christianity’
materials. It is designed to help make us aware of the wider context of the
concepts and indicates some areas of disagreement and diversity.
In class, we have been exploring the first panel of the
frieze: Creation. We have discussed our favourite things in the natural world
and things in the world that are good and creative. The book of Job offers an
extended metaphor as if God were an architect or builder which gives it strong
links to our work in art looking at architecture.
We have also been discussing what difference it would make
to believe that the universe is a creative project of God instead of the
universe just happening on its own.
All this has resulted in a beautiful display depicting what
our class believes are the most important and our favourite things in the
natural world.