Hooray - we are up and running!

SEPTEMBER 25TH 2013
Hello! This is our blog for the Welling School Art Outreach Team aka. Jo and Rachael.

Over the coming year, we will be spending our Wednesday mornings at East Wickham Primary School, working with students and teachers in the classroom; looking at art,  thinking about art...and doing art!

After what seemed like ages planning and ordering lots of supplies...we finally started at East Wickham Primary School in Welling a couple of weks ago.

It was fantastic to meet the children at last, and I think everyone had a great morning.

Year 2 are looking at maps and started by making trails in the playground- look very closely!

Then they collected some interesting things they'd found along the way...

They thought about how they might sort their collections...

   

and made some really beautiful, detailed drawings of them.

In Year 5 we were looking at the Tudors:

This week in Miss McGuinness' Class

We began by looking at Tudor paintings like The Ambassadors by Holbein, and Elizabeth I Rainbow Portrait by Isaac Oliver.

We looked at the objects in the paintings and thought about what they might mean....

and we worked together to create a glossary.

Then we used viewfinders to look closely at details and colours in the paintings

and we mixed our colours....

to make some striking and colourful abstract paintings.