Batik in WillowWilllow Class have been looking at different types of batik and methods of resist. We even tried on some of the Indonesian batiks which are beautiful.
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Gorgeous Tudor photo frames in ChestnutWe have been honing our woodworking skills to design and create these supper frames into which we have inserted photos of ourselves on Tudor Day. We made the frame by cutting up wood to the correct size, gluing it and then using paper tubes to decorate them in a Tudor style.
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Baking biccies in Ash ClassWe had a lovely afternoon baking our designer biscuits. We formed baking companies, designed a biscuit recipe and then made the. The highlight of the afternoon was the tasting....Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm they were delicious
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Willow Class does Andy GoldsworthyIt was a beautiful afternoon so we spent the afternoon outside creating sculptures out of natural materials in the style of Andy Goldsworthy. Enjoy
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Lighting up Animal heads in ChestnutOur topic this term is habitats so we decided to make our lighting up project all about animals and their eyes. We investigated other things that light up to. We each made an animal's head out of head. Once fired and glazed we then inserted our electric circuits with two bulbs for eyes. Have a look at them
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Storybooks with Moving Parts in ChestnutWe have been making the Pie Corbett story of the Old Man, Boy and the story more exciting by adding a moving part to each page. We the shared our books with Holly Class who are making moving pictures. We think they were very impressed with our skills. We reckon we could sell our books in a book sho they are so good!
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We love our mumsWe have designed these rather lovely ceramic bead hearts for our mums on Mothering Sunday
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Willow Class have created a fantastic LowryThis term we have been looking at different artist and we were especially taken by Lowry and his Celebration of VE Day. We started our exploration by looking at vanishing points and lines of perspective - somewhat tricky. Each pair designed a building based on the painting which we collaged with magazine photos. This was placed in its correct perspective point on our wall. We then added bunting and finally created clay figures which were fired and then painted in colours in keeping with the painting.These were added to the painting one by one. We have also written letters as if we were a person celebrating in the painting. We are really proud of it and I am sure you will be impressed too.
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Using audacity to make radio adsIn ICT we have been learning to use audacity to create radio adverts. Would you buy these products?
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Initial cushion in Design Technology, Chestnut ClassWe enjoyed a really fun project this term looking at our intials, drawing illuminated letters, making clay letter, then designing our mini cushions with our decorated initials. Click on the photos to see the variety of creations we made and what fun we had.
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Design Technology bread making in Ash ClassThis has been a really enjoyable project wg=here we have investigated grains, medieval tenches, made salt dough loaves, tasted all sorts of bread, made our owm yeast, created advertising posters and finallt designed and baked our own bread. YUMMMMMMMMMMM!
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Andy Goldsworthy in Ash ClassAs part of our environmental week when our year fives were at leeson, we've been having fun exploring the art of Andy Goldsworthy. As you can see we have created fantastic art. Click on Damaris and Abigail to see more.
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Moving Monster ceramic masks in Oak ClassDuring the summer term we have been investigating how objects move using pneumatics. We then based our designs on mini beastds faces and created our masks out of terracotta clay. These were then decorated and we used either syringes as our source of air power or blow outs. Check out our photos and videos for the results of which we are very proud.
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St Andrews goes for GOLDArts Mark Gold Award
We are thrilled to announce that after many months of hard work and our continuing commitment to the teaching of the arts, we have upgraded our Silver award and achieved Arts Mark Gold status in June 2010, one of 871 new schools in the UK to have received the award this year.
Click on the link to read the full press release
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Getting wired in Willow ClassAs part of our rainforest project we have been making animals out of wire which is quite tricky. Check out our slideshow to see how we got on.
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Can we change places? in Oak ClassWe have been doing a super project which allow us to see if we can change our environment using outside art such as the beautiful sculpture of Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Andy Goldsworthy and Anthony Gormley. We designed a scultpure to place outside and made a sclae model firstly out of clay and then we carved it out of soap which was great fun. Click on Henty through his sculpture to enjoy our photos.
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Dream time Rainbow Snake in Chestnut ClassWe have been learning about Australian aboriginal art and the different techniques they use to create their art. We created this monster snake using different patterns and icons.
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Air power in Oak ClassWe have just started a new Design Technology Project about making moving monsters using pneumatics or air power. We decided to investigate how different every day things like pumps, squeezy bottles, straws,party blowouts and balloons can be used to provide air power. Our challenge was to move a ball across the playground using air power. Click on our winners who used their pneumatic frogs legs to push their ball the fastest, to see the rest of our challenge.
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Pavanes, Portraits and Farthingales workshop at Montacute HousePavanes, Portraits and Farthingales teachers' workshop at Montacute House
I had a fantastic day at Montacute House learning about Tudor dancing, investigating portraits amd making farthingales to plump up one's Tudor skirts. We practised our dancing in theGreat Hall in the main house.
We also looked at Tudor portraiture, learning about the materials they used and investigating the settings of the portrait. Portraits of The current Tudor monarch were copied or pounced using pin pricks to trace the outline of the head and you were nobody if you didn't have a portrait of your Queen on your wall.
In the afternoon we made farthingales, a cane structue used, with a bum bag, to support the heavy weight of the Tudor skirts. Watch our video to find out more. At the end of the day, wearing our farthingales, we performed the Pavane in the Long Gallery, much to the paying visitors amusement.
A super day, thanks to the Clare and Carole from the National Portrait Gallery and Montacute House.
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Willow Class have made slippers out of recycled materialsWe spent some time investigating slippers and then designed our own. As we are working toward becoming a silver Eco-school we decided to design our slippers using recycled materials. WE are lucky enough to have the support of our PTA who pay for our Scrapstore membership from where we get our recyclable materials.
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Sandwich tasting in Oak ClassAs part of our Design Technology project we have been tasting different breads and fillings in order to be able to design our own.
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Staff Animation WorkshopAt one of our staff meetings we learnt how to make stop frame animation using plasticene models, playmobil or wooden artists models and DigiBlue video cameras. Our results were remarkable. I am sure the children could do better. Which part of use only tiny movements DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!
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Baking biccies in Ash ClassWe have been investigating and designing our own biscuits. We really enjoyed the biscuit tasting although the pink wafers were majorely horrid. Click on Elen's biscuit and see our baking fun.
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Felt making in Chestnut ClassAs part of our Design Technology Money Container's project, rather than buy the felt we thought we would go back to basics and make our own from merino wool. The colours are abslutely stunning as are our designs. Click on our felt pictue to see our slide show.
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Willow class creating art in the style of Mackenzie ThorpeWe have been looking at the workof Mackenzie Thorpe and creating some gorgeous artwork. We have also been learning how to scale up and down using his characters.Click on Harvey's fantastic piece of artwork to look at the slideshow.
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Ash Class - making Toys which move using camsWe've been investigating toys that use cams to help them move. Click on Harvey to see our toys and on the links below to see them move.
Frazier's moving toy - Harvey's toy - Teddy's toy - Sophie's toy - Scott's toy - Sam's toy - Rebecca's toy - Owen's toy - Mattie's toy - Kim's toy - Jack's toy - Henry's toy - George's toy - Elliott M's toy - Elliott S's toy
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YEAR 6 STRUCTURESWe have been having great fun this term constructing structures only out of paper. We made towers 1m high, domes big enough to absorb 2 people, bridges to carry 2.5kg and span 80cm and finally a scale model of the Millennium Wheel. Click on the link below to see it spinning
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EASTER in CLAY CLUBThe Clay Clubbers have been creating some fantastic Easter eggs and creatures using some rather exotic glazes. Enjoy
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STORYBOOKS WITH MOVING PARTSYear 4 have been investigating books with moving parts (pop-up books). We have also been learning techniques such as mouthfolds, boxfolds and flaps so that we will be able to add them to our own books.
Our finished storybooks have an assortment of six different moving parts - flaps,mouth folds, box folds, rotators, sliders and springs. We then wrote our own stories and added moving parts to make them more fun. Enjoy watching our short films of our books.
NATHANIEL'S The Space Healers CALLUM's The Bunny, Carrot & Time Machine ELLEN's Koala Trouble THEA's The Family of Royalty SOPHIE's The Lost Home MICHAEL's The Kangaroo & Porpoise LEWIS's Star Wars 3 MEGAN's Spooky Night LUCY's The Fox & The Child KATIE's The Cow Muck Problem JOSIE's The Tractor Disaster JOSH's Hamsters vs Bunnies JESSIE's Fancy Dress Party JAMES's The Cat & The Mouse HOLLY's Lost Sparkle ELENA's The Invisible dog CHARLOTTE's The Cat, Dog & Child CALLUM S's The Bank Heist ELLIE MARIE's The Kangaroo & Porpoise Fight
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TUDOR PURSESClass 4 have been making beautiful Tudor purses out of sumptious velvet in rich colours. Click on the purses to see our slideshow
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OUR AFRICAN MOSAIC UNVEILINGFinally our African mosaic is finsihed and we had its unveiling by Bishop George and our African Arts Week sponsors, Rob Fox, from Porter Dodson. It was a lovely occassion and enjoyed by all.
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A Better WorldOur new display in the hall takes the words of our school song " Wake up each day... with happy hearts ..and make a better world for you" and illustartes them in the most technicolour artwork. Certianly something to cheer you up each morning.
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ANIMATION CLUBIn Animation Club Class 6 have been looking at animation software and making our own short films. We will be making still photos talk and using claymation to make animated films using the DigiBlue video cameras.
Click on the links below to have a look at some of our films.
Mrs NC's animation - Eccles
The Zoo by Ella
The road by Imogen
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AFRICAN ARTS WEEK MOSAICWe have jsut started the mammoth task of constructing our mosaic.
AFRICAN ARTS WEEK has be kindly sponsored by PORTER DODSON SOLICITORS.
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AFRICAN ARTS WEEK DISPLAY 2008In the run up to our exciting African Arts Week and to inspire the children we have created an African Arts display in our dining room with a mixture of authentic African Art and art created by the children and some teachers! BE INSPIRED ...BE VERY INSPIRED. Many thanks to all those who loaned us African artifacts for our display -they have been invaluable!
Look at the individual classes work under their own pages.
AFRICAN ARTS WEEK has be kindly sponsored by PORTER DODSON SOLICITORS.
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AFRICAN ARTS WEEK MOSAIC 2008As part of our very exciting AFRICAN ARTS WEEK we are creating a large mosaic using glas tiles, pebbles and ceramic pieces to be display at the entrance to our school. It will be a challenge but I know the children will be up to it.
AFRICAN ARTS WEEK has be kindly sponsored by PORTER DODSON SOLICITORS.
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MAKING VOKI WITH CLASS 6We have been making our own virtual image to say what is great about our school, St Andrew's Primary.
What is Voki?
Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… animals, monsters, animations etc. Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.
What's with the name?
Voki is a combination of "vox", which is Latin for voice, and "Loki", which, is a prankster character in Norse Mythology.
Click on any of the links below to play any of our voki.
Mrs N-C
Christina's voki
Mattie's voki
Jacob's voki
Bryony's voki
Poppy's voki
Natalie's voki
Katherine's voki
Maddie's voki
Jess's voki
Lizzie's voki
Barley's voki
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PICTURE FRAMING WITH CLASS 3We have been having fun in design technologyinvestigating, designing and making photoframes. We also drew our own portraits to put in them.
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BRIDGE BUILDING WITH CLASS 6Our latest challenge in our Young Engineers topic is bridge building. Our challenge was to build a bridge in 1 hour using A4 and A5 beams, in square based pyramids, to span 80cm and carry a load of 2.5kg. Our results were magnificent. Click on the boys to see more.
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DESIGNING AND MAKING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WITH CLASS 5This year our challenge was to design and make musical instruments out of clay. It is amazing how you can make something so beautiful - and musical - out of a grey lump of clay. Click on Savannah to view our masterpieces.
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WE LOVE YOU MUMMYWe spent a gorgeous morning making a gorgeous gift for our mums on Mothering Sunday.
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GUMDROP STRUCTURESThis term Year 6 have got the chance to become young engineers with an exciting new design technology project. Every couple of weeks they have to fulfill an engineering challenge based on building different structures. The first challenge was to build small towers, using only cocktail sticks and gumdrops, strong enough to support a dictionary. The challenge also was to see how many gumdrops the children could not be tempted to eat
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BAKING BICCIES WITH CLASS 5We had the delicious task this term of investigating (which involved a good deal of tasting), designing and then baking our own designer cookies. I have to say there was a common theme running through them. Can you get what it is?
Check this website out for all the facts you could possibly want to know (and those you don't) about biscuits.
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/
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Nous apprenons à créer le dessin-modèle dans le modèle de l'artiste français, Robert Delaunayavec Class 5 et 6This term Class 5 and 6 looked at the work of the French artist Robert Delaunay. He was a pioneer of abstract art in the early 20th century creating his own style called "Orphism". He concentrated on circular forms and bright colours. Enjoy our visual feasts.
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CLASS 6 BATIK MAKINGWhat fun we had using differnt types of resist and then design and dyeing our cushion covers. Click on the image to see more and on the link below to see the images of St Lucia that inspired us.
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CLASS 3's SANDWICH TASTINGAs part of the investigation of sandwiches process, we tasted 6 different kinds of sandwich. Some were yummy and some we just weren't sure about!
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LEESON ROCKSAfter a fabulous walk and scientific study at Studland Beach, Class 5 spent the afternoon creating some 3 dimensional art out of things we picked up on our trip to Arne.
We based our ideas on the animals found in the area in and around Lesson.
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CLAY CLUB's tropical fishesWe have been looking at the stunning colurs of tropical fishes and decided to make our own to show how they move.
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CLASS 4's MONEY CONTAINERSClass have been having fun deconstructing and then designing and stitching their own money containers.
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CLASS 5 AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTSWe have been looking at and investigating all sorts of different kinds of musical instruments.
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BRIDGE MAKING WITH CLASS 6The challenge was to make a bridge out of paper to carry the greatest load as possible without breaking, whilst be as light as possible.
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SPAGHETTI BRIDGESWe had fun comparing the strengths of the circular cored spaghettii to the flattened core of linguini. Which one do you think would carry the greatest load?
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EASTER HENSClay club has been making these really super ceramic hens
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"THE FIELD" of St Andrew'sOur "Field" comprises approximately 200
terracotta figures made by every child in Key Stage 2, Years 3 - 6, 7 - 11 year olds. The work is based on "The Field of the Bristish Isles" created by the English sculptor Anthony Gormley who won the Turner prize with his 40,000 figures in 1994.
We will be exhibiting them at the RAISE Exhibition in Sherborne House the week beginning March 5th for a week.
The whole "sculpture" is called the field because from a distance the differing heights of the figures look like the metachronal rhythm of grass moving in a field.
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CLAY CLUB's CELEBRATIONS OF OUR MUMSThis term we have been making clay wreaths to give to our mums for Mothering Sunday. Sssshhh dobn't tell them; it's a surprise!
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CLASS 6'S SUPER SLIPPERSClass 6 have been learning about how to make the perfect slipper. Have a look at our wonderful slippers.
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OLYMPIC TORCH MAKING WITH CLASS 4This half term Class 4 have been investigating Olympic torches as part of their design technology and Greek topic. This resulted in the children making superb models of Olympians holding the Olymic flame aloft.
willow warblers
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MAKING CERAMIC GREEK BOATS WITH CLASS 5Our history topic this term has been the Greeks and so following on from this theme we have been designing and buiding our own ARGOs out of clay.
Make your own pictogram with the Primary Technology Free online Pictogram creator>
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