Year 4 had a brilliant Art day, focusing on sculpture, creating our own ‘Anglo Saxon’ themed sculpted shields. We studied famous sculptors, including Salvador Dali, and then looked at the symbolism of animals and shapes in ‘Anglo Saxon’ lore. We designed our own versions and then used paper mache to build our sculptures. Following drying time, we then used muted colours to decorate our sculptures.

What a lovely printing focus day in Y4!

The Year 3 and 4 after school drama club performed a superb mini production on Thursday for their parents. The children showed off their developing oracy skills, performance ability and flourishing self-confidence. It was fabulous to see how much they’ve gained from attending this club. We’d like to say, on behalf of the parents and children at Raddlebarn, a massive thank you and good luck to Rob who had received a well-deserved promotion at the REP meaning he will no longer be an in-school artist. He will be greatly missed and we wish him all the best. Thank you Rob!

Y4 have thoroughly enjoyed investigating stable structures. They made simple 3D shapes out of card and load tested them to failure (using books). They then strengthened and reinforced the shapes and carried out another load test to see how many more books their structures could now hold. They also made geodesic domes.

Y4 had an absolutely amazing drawing art focus day. They looked at the work of Shania Mcdonagh (hyperrealist drawings) and Paul Cezanne (still life drawings), recapped their knowledge of line and tone and learnt a variety of drawing techniques such as cross hatching and contour hatching. Look at their fabulous work! Keep an eye out for their still life drawings (to be completed).

Year 4 have had great fun making their versions of stained-glass windows today. They looked at some examples in different places of worships and then created their own.