As part of the ‘Enchanted Woodland’ topic, class LH have been studying the environmental artist, Andy Goldsworthy.
Mrs Lucas introduced the children to his style of work on
Tuesday but unfortunately due to the inclement weather, the children were
unable to make their creations outside.
However, they created a great gallery of pictures using natural
materials (leaves, twigs, fir cones, conkers, horse chestnut cases, feathers
and heather) in the classroom.
Luckily, the weather improved during the week and the
children had the opportunity to experience being an environmental artist outside
and created artwork in the style of Andy Goldsworthy up on the field. The whole class were amazing working so well
together in creating their pieces.
The children described the difficulties that some of them
faced and talked through how they resolved their problems - these ranged from
making a circle with straight twigs; creating a 3D model and trying to find
ways for the sticks to stay upright and also one group shared how they had a
lack of ideas but once they started laying out some of the twigs, their design
started to evolve.
Mrs Hall, Mrs Morgan and Mrs Rolfe and were so proud of how
well the children worked together. It was
so lovely to see the problem-solving skills that the children applied – such a
lovely, convivial learning experience.
Follow this link for more photos on the gallery.
