Today we would like you to make repeating patterns at home using anything you can find in your home or outside. Here are some examples that you may like to use!
You could use anything you can find to make a repeating pattern – maybe colour a repeating pattern? Please send in any photos to our email address or upload onto Tapestry – we love to see your work and Golden Tickets will be awarded!
Creative 3-D Christmas cards were the order of the day, earlier this week – Below you can see some of the pupils designs and above you can see a video tutorial, should you like the idea of making your own (or another one).
Maths skills were needed, in the activity, to help the pupils measure each section of their creation, as well as appreciate the concept of 3-dimensions.
It was great to see so many nice messages to family and friends, too!
Great job everyone!
Last week, saw the whole phase continue to develop their historical knowledge, as they worked as art historians.
Above you can see pictures of the pupils, replicating images of Roman soldiers, whilst studying the armour and clothes that they wore when they invaded Britain in AD43. The pupils also had to think and work mathematically, as they were asked scale up the image.
The pupils started their impressions by folding a smaller image, into equal parts. They then folded a larger piece of plain paper in same way – This enabled the duplication at a larger scale, within each corresponding folded section: measuring key points and lengths (using a ruler) and then multiplying by three to achieve a scale of 1:3.
The beginning of this week saw Phase 3 pupils take to the field – the battle field – for a duel between each other and the houses: Water house took the spoils in the end, but it was a close battle!
Last week, the classes learnt how to draw Celtic knots (click here), a symbol of unity and love – these were something that the Celts, from the period before Christ and the Roman invasion of Britain, decorated their battle shields with. This week, the pupils took their designs and added them to shields, measuring up their braces (the handle of the shield) to fit their hand – before entering into a battle with a difference.
The battle itself was a silent and non-contact one, with pupils performing a dance: changing levels and speed to add drama without noise – silence is, after all, a menacing thing. The faces pulled were enough to fill their opponents with fear.
Fab job everyone.
This term we will be starting our new topic ‘Are the Arts what make us Human?’. Have a look at all the exciting learning we have in store for Phase3.
This week, in Phase 3, we’ve been finding out about each other – One activity saw the pupils capturing a profile of themselves on a 2-D shape net, before turning it into a 3-D cube.
The pupils set about cutting out a 2-D cube net – scissors skill were excellent! Then they covered the faces of the cube in things about themselves: words and drawings. They shared their favourites, such as food, along with there hobbies and the people they cared the most about. Once they’d finished they folded the net to form the actual cube.
Of course we could not miss the opportunity to mathematically explore the parts of a cube as well – Do you know the difference between faces, edges and vertices?
Piet Mondrian was a Dutch artist who created paintings that described the world around us. Interestingly, his later artworks described the world using coloured rectangles and squares which are also the basis of an interesting mathematical puzzle.
Read this document to help you understand how maths and art can be combined.
Then, either create your own grid based on the rules or print out the Mondrian colouring sheet below
and create your own piece of abstract art which has combined maths and art. Watch the following video to help inspire you.
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