The arts company Every Picture Tells came to work with the Early Years children to produce some art and craft work related to traditional stories. Firstly, the children listened to an alternative version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. A storyboard was used to help to tell the story and afterwards, the children had the opportunity to produce a baby bear picture. To finish off the visit, the children took part in a mini quiz: Guess the traditional story. The children were excellent at the quiz and guessed all the answers correctly! A fabulous time was had by all.

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Key Stage One and Foundation Stage children have enjoyed a fantastic arts themed week based around the continent of Africa.

The week was planned and designed in order to enable the children to gain an insight into different cultures and customs of the African people. The children learned about the geography of the continent, foods, animals, clothing and jewellery, music, singing and dance, as well as the different forms of African artwork.

Read on to find out more about our visiting artists for the week, see more photos and find out more about the types of activities that took place.

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After six months of hard work, the Year six pupils finally staged their performance of Disney’s Jungle book at Heworth Grange in the summer term and it was an outstanding performance from the children, who put all their effort into the show.

Read on to find out more details and see more spectacular photos.

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Wardley Primary School has been working in partnership with Heworth Grange Comprehensive School Arts College staff to develop the skills of some of our pupils here at Wardley.

Mrs Park, the art teacher at Heworth, came in one morning per week for six weeks, to work with our gifted and talented artists from Nursery to Year Six. The children looked at and discussed artwork by Henri Matisse, as a stimulus. The children did still life sketches, painted; sponge printed and did collages of various fruit and vegetables, for a Healthy Eating Display now situated in the dining hall.

Mrs Park also worked with all of the Year Two pupils in order to support the children with their transition from the Infants to the Juniors, by producing artwork to be displayed in the Junior Hall. The children looked at multicultural art and used aboriginal style techniques to re-create a map of Wardley.

Thank you to the children and to Mrs Park for their hard work producing the wonderful displays.

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Several visits to Laing Art Gallery have been organised throughout this year. Year 1/2, 3/4 and 5 have all been on visits to Laing Art Gallery to develop their artistic skills.

Year 1/2 and 3/4 have been to see an exhibition called Work, Rest and Play at the gallery. The exhibition has a series of artworks by famous artists on the theme of Work, Rest and Play. This visit involved the children looking at and analysing the works of art, hearing stories from a storyteller, developing collage techniques and making props and using them in drama performances.

Year 1/2 photos below:

Year 3/4 photos below:

Year 5 worked on The Bard Take One Picture project in January(further details of which are posted on this website in the Year 5 section).

Everyone had a fantastic time and more visits will be planned for next academic year.

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Wardley recently hosted its second hugely successful art exhibition.
The event involved every single child in the school creating their own piece of artwork to display in the exhibition. This allowed all of our budding young artists to showcase their artistic and creative flair!

The children created their art work on a canvas using a variety of different media- paint, chalks, crayons, etc. This was then framed and displayed in the junior hall over the two days that the exhibition ran for.

Parents were invited in order to view and potentially purchase their children’s artwork. The event proved to be hugely successful in terms of celebrating children’s artistic achievements and raising money for the school's art fund.
An enjoyable time was had by all!

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Year One and Two have been learning all about the Easter story. Throughout the week, the children developed a greater understanding of the events that occurred in the last week leading up to Jesus’ death and resurrection. The focus was predominately on role-play and drama.

We began the week by re-enacting Palm Sunday. Each of the children made a giant palm leaf and waved them as Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the donkey.

As Jesus rode in, we sang ‘We have a King who rides a Donkey.’

The following day, we studied the events of the last supper. We broke and shared the bread and wine (blackcurrant juice) and washed each other’s feet, just as Jesus’ did with his disciples.

Finally, we read the final part of the Easter story and discussed the symbols that remind us of Easter. This led us to produce an Easter card using either religious or non-religious symbols.

All the children visited Priory Court to give the elderly residents the card that they had made. This helped the children understand that Easter is a time of celebration for Christians in the wider community.

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