VITAL EXPRESSIONS OF NATURE IN WATER AND LANDSCAPES Term 2 Booklet, January - March 2013 Loatlands 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.