Year 2 Art Week

This week in year 2 it’s Art Week. Over the week we looked at the abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky. We mixed primary colours and painted concentric circles in order to create our own Kandinsky style abstract art. Then we looked at the abstract artist Paul Klee. The children followed a video to create their own abstract ‘cat’ and used cool shades of water colours to paint it. Our next artist was Ted Harrison. He is a British painter who painted in Canada. He used tints and shades to make landscapes pictures just focusing on the lines and not the objects he could see. Our final Art lesson was based on Jackson Pollock who invented drip painting. As you can imagine, the children loved this style of painting as it was very inclusive and everybody could have a go. We made some fantastic collaborative abstract art! Fantastic work Year 2! #aspire #artweek #kandinksy #paulklee #tedharrison #jacksonpollock

On Friday 19th March, Carlton Road Academy celebrated Red Nose Day. The children had to wear as much red as possible and used a red balloon to make a red nose. They took their red balloon around the track to complete their ‘Red Mile’. We all had a fantastic day and raised lots of money for comic relief!

On Friday 12th March, we celebrated World Maths Day. We encouraged the children to dress up in anything mathematical and we completed lots of fun maths activities on the day! Some of the activities included solving escape room clues, making 2D and 3D shapes with mini marshmallows and cocktail sticks and solving puzzles. We had a fantastic day celebrating all things Maths!

Year 1 had a tasty introduction to ‘The Great Fire of London’ topic. The Owls and Hedgehogs had fun during their taster session of baked goods. This was a very suitable introduction to the topic because the fire started in a bakery. The children enjoyed tasting the different products and how they differ in texture and taste.