VITAL EXPRESSIONS OF NATURE IN

WATER AND LANDSCAPES

Term 2 Booklet, January - March 2013Loatlands Primary School, Desborough, England

Contents

• Natural resources in Art – Clay

• Using natural materials

• Loatlands Art Gallery:-

• Nursery - Castles

• Reception – The Lighthouse

• Year 1 – Turner’s England

• Year 2 – Lowry – England during the Industrial Revolution

• Year 3 – Tales from the Riverbank

• Year 4 – Beside the Sea

• Year 5 – Canal Art

• Year 6 – Canal Art

Natural resources in art - Clay

Loatlands welcomed clay teacher Victoria Houghton to the school for two days. Each class were taught how to model with clay.

Using natural materials

Loatlands Art Gallery

The sculptures were displayed at ‘Loatlands Art Gallery’ – a whole school evening where each class displayed their art, stories and sculptures for parents and families.

Nursery - Castles

The Nursery children wrote their stories

about a castle and made one of the

characters in clay.

Reception – The Lighthouse

Reception created art and stories explaining how a shell

had landed on a beach. They created clay boats.

The Lighthouse

Year 1 – Turner’s England

Year 1 recreated Turner paintings and wrote a story

about the castle in the painting. They created a clay

Sculpture of one of their characters.

Year Two – Lowry – England during the Industrial Revolution

Year 2 recreated art by Lowry who painted

Scenes of England during the Industrial

Revolution. Their clay characters have the

Features of a Lowry figure.

Year Two – Lowry – England during the Industrial Revolution

Year 3 –Tales from the Riverbank

Year 3 looked at nature around the river and

wrote stories about the animals and people

who lived there.

Year 3 – Tales from the Riverbank

Year 4 – By the Sea

Year 4 created their art, stories and sculptures around two

sea paintings.

Year 4 – By the Sea

Year 5 – Canal Art

Year 5 were inspired by the art of canal

boats; they created a jug in the traditional canal

art style of bold, colourful floral prints.

Year 6 – Canal Art

Year 6 looked at the natural landscape surrounding the

canal locks in Northamptonshire.

Year 5 and 6 visited Foxton Locks to look at the art of canal boats.