Last week, class 11 visited TOPPs (The Old Police Station) in Heywood centre. Whilst there, we took part in two activities. First, we painted large rocks in bright colours as part of a rock hiding activity which has been taking place around Heywood. People have been hiding their rocks for Read more…
As part of an environmental project to bring people’s attention to the damaging effect of our over use of plastics, we at Harwood Park have been creating a new display for our hall. Over the last week Mrs Short has designed and painted a mural of sea life. Soon we Read more…
A huge thank you to our alliance schools, who have attended our cluster meetings this year. Today we met for the final time this school year, to celebrate each school’s achievements and the positive impact they have had. We also took the time to share what we had been up Read more…
During a busy week of assessments, class 11 had some wind down time creating colourful and patterned landscape pictures. First they drew the outline trying to show different aspects of the landscape such as background and foreground. We think they look great.
Over half term, Class 11 were asked to design and make a boat which would both float and have a streamlined shape. This was part of our investigation into how certain animals and man made objects are designed to move quickly through both air and water quickly. We discovered the Read more…
As part of our linked learning theme of Mexico, Class 5 have been finding out about an important Mexican festival ‘The Day of the Dead.’ We learned what is celebrated at this time and typical traditions. We found out that skulls are a significant part of the celebrations and in Read more…
Class 6 were asked to investigate castles over the holidays. This is our new topic. They could create a piece of art work or complete some research and present it in any way they wanted. As you can see from the photos, they certainly enjoyed themselves and many children took Read more…
Class 13 have been researching the art of African masks. They did observational drawings from real masks and then designed their own by collecting ideas from a variety of reference materials. The children then etched their designs into polystyrene blocks and used the blocks for printing. The results Read more…
As part of our learning about the firework-maker’s daughter, we have been studying traditional Indonesian art. The children were really interested in the masks and we decided to make our own. We used collage to create scary symmetrical masks. What do you think?
Children in Reception have created some beautiful artwork inspired by our Space topic. We have used a marbling technique to create a swirly colourful planet which we have stuck onto our starry backgrounds.