Year 4 – Collage ‘Dancing Figures’

As part of Year 4’s Art lessons, they have been learning about the famous artist ‘Henri Matisse’. The children have researched his work and his life to find out why he created his wonderful masterpieces.

Matisse became ill, ended up in a wheelchair, and was unable to paint in style he was use to, so he came up with a new style and called it ‘Painting with Scissor’. The children were challenged to create their own art piece based on the same style and used scissors, a variety of warm and cool colours to create a collage with a focus on dancing figures.

Mrs Meek sent Megan Coyle an email with all the children work and she has now replied and put some of the children’s work on her blog.

To view the blog visit the following link:

https://megancoyle.com/2020/03/13/still-life-collages-from-wolsingham-england/

Our teachers are working hard to ensure that learning can be continued at home.  We will be posting up daily work for children who may be absent whilst the school is still open and educational packs will also be provided in the event of school closures, which children can be working on whilst at home.  These are available on the class Work Pages a link to which can be found on each Class Page.

During one of our Eco Group meetings it was decided that we could link two important areas together – recycling and helping the homeless.  We discovered that a lady in London was recycling foil crisp packets to make into ‘Bivi bags’ – a sleeping bag.  Mrs Ashcroft, Ginny and Bea, kindly offered to go along to a meeting in Bishop Auckland to learn all about the scheme and to take part in making a bivi bag.  She then returned to school to feedback what she had learned to Mrs Lambard and Mrs Routledge.  Now Mrs Routledge has set up a team of helpers in after-school club who clean, dry and cut the foil crisp packets that we have been collecting in school.  She will then iron them together so that we can send the foil blankets off to London to be made into a bivi bag.  Each bivi bags needs around 150 crisp packets! 

The children had an opportunity to taste some of the food available on the new school menu which starts after the Easter break. Children were able to try vegetarian crispy tacos, chicken parmo and chicken chow mein as well as watermelon, chocolate brownie and peach shortbread.

Copies of the summer menu should have gone home tonight.

On our initial count we have raised an impressive £220 for Dogs Trust! Thank you all for contributing.

We would also like to give a special thank you to Miss Stoker for organising the event and the School Council members who helped to run the stalls!

Have a look at what our KS2 Arts and Crafts Club have been up to this week!

The school continues to monitor the latest information and advice from Public Health England and the advice for returning travellers remains as follows:

Returning travellers should:
Stay indoors and avoid contact with other people immediately, even if they do not have symptoms, if they’ve travelled to the UK from:
• Hubei province in China in the last 14 days
• Iran, lockdown areas in northern Italy or special care zones in South Korea since 19 February

Just a reminder, we are holding a fundraiser for our chosen charity, Dogs Trust, tomorrow.

In the afternoon there will be a range of activities and stalls for the children to participate in and win prizes, all for a good cause. There will even be a cake stall which have been baked and decorated by our School Council members!