PAN 2019 - ARTWORK
Our school is a founder member of PAN (Primary Arts Network). Each year a number of Warrington schools collaborate on a joint project based on an agreed theme and the children’s work is shared through an exhibition and a performance. This enables us to participate in exciting cross-curricular work and showcase work within the arts. This years theme is ‘We Are Warrington’ with the aim of celebrating the things that Warrington is famous for. Each school has been given an element to base their artwork and performance on, based on the things for which Warrington is best known. Our school element is 'Lewis Carroll'.
Nursery
We have been making hats for the 'Mad Hatter's Tea Party'. We have worked on lots of different techniques like paper folding, curling, threading, sculpting, sticking and cutting.
Reception
We have listened to the story and looked at the illustrations in 'Alice in Wonderland'. We have made masks of our favourite characters from the story.
Year 1
We have created writing and pictures based around 'The Cheshire Cat'. We have written character descriptions and made lift the flap pictures depicting the Cheshire Cat. We have also used our Design and Technology knowledge and made moving pictures of the Cheshire Cat mixing split pins, levers and imaginative ideas.
We have also been looking at the artist Romero Britto, who uses bright colours and patterns within different sections in pictures. We looked at the different patterns Britto used, such as hearts, spirals and stripes, and used them within our own pictures of the Cheshire Cat following our study of 'Alice in Wonderland'. We also used the bright colours in our work that Romero Britto used, like oranges, blues and reds. We have created three different pictures of the Cheshire Cat using this technique on canvas. We hope you enjoy looking our our Cheshire Cat creations!
Year 2
Lewis Carroll is a famous author and poet who was born in Daresbury in 1832, near to where we live. His father was the vicar at All Saints' Church in Daresbury and Lewis spent his early childhood there. We have looked at the church building and explored its shapes, lines and patterns. We know Lewis saw these too when he was our age and we wonder if the church and local countryside inspired his writing.
