A Chicken's Tale!

Our Early Years Unit have had great fun over the last few weeks working with artist Fabric Lenny. They have created a vast array of mark making, prints, paintings, collaborations, stories, information texts a video or two and a short animation...phew!!!

Have a look at our awesome photo's and follow the links to Fabric Lenny's blog to see more of our project which was kindly funded by The National Lottery via The Big Lottery Fund. An amazing 32 families from our Reception classes have been involved. Fantastic!

My personal favourites! The 'Parent' and 'Child' chicken portraits!!!! Love these sooooo much!

Click on this link below to see the short film 'A Chickens Tale' just one part of our amazing project!

http://vimeo.com/81403801

http://kirkleesarts4all.blogspot.co.uk/

Mayan Self Portraits

Year 4 have more or less completed their Mayan style self-portraits in 2D. A3 in scale these designs have taken some time to complete as the pupils went on a lovely investigation in to Mayan cultural symbols, design preparations using photography, tracing and imaginative drawing. Sketchbook work helped us prepare our ideas, then away we went in a step by step process of creating portrait and glyphs (every one unique)!

I wonder from the gallery below can you guess at any of our Year 4 pupils????

However that is not all! As some of these images are now to appear on a tent like fabric covering that is being created for our reading area in the new Allen Lawton Learning Centre. So our design work becomes Public Art! Brilliant!

The pupils are now working on relief portrait images and we will soon post up further display work of the additional learning undertaken this term.