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.