Belonging Art work.

We were inspired by the beautiful collaged illustrations in the book Belonging to create some of our own artwork. We used oil pastels to make pictures of the view from our own bedroom windows (like Tracy in the story). Before we began we looked at this colourful painting by Henri Matisse for inspiration.

Source: Henri Matisse.net

Here are some of the finished works, which were also displayed in our school Art Exhibition.
Emily

Francis

Sirous

Blessie

Daniel

Venus

Rory

Lily

Kenan

Esther

Mia

Isaac

Sol

Kiara

Nicholas

Vanessa

Maria

Sophia

Chidera

Alex

Owain

Erhun

Darcy

Recycled pictures.

We were inspired by the brilliant pictures in Belonging so we decided to have a go at making our own. Each child took a photo of the view from their bedroom window and used this to make a relief collage using recycled materials. Here are some of the collages.

Blessie

Sophia

Emily

Erhun

Bella

Sol

Belonging

We are starting our new Literacy book this week, it's a picture book by the Australian author Jeannie Baker.

The story is told in pictures showing the view from a girl's bedroom window through the years. Jeannie uses recycled materials to make her interesting and detailed pictures.

We will be making our own versions of the window-view pictures in class- photos to follow.

Don't forget we will be needing materials in order to make our own pictures so please raid your recycling box!