CORAM HOUSE
Art Club In the Year 3 to 4 Art Club, we have enjoyed gathering autumnal finds: pine cones, acorns, leaves, dried grasses, seeds etc... We used those to create natural sculptures. We experimented with the glue gun and liquid glue to create 3D sculptures. We used some of the leaves to create prints. On very wet paper, we applied watercolours, laying the leaves flat and letting them dry. The colour pools around the leaves and dried forming patterns. The moment of the great reveal was the following week, when leaves were peeled away. It was the highlight of that project! Finally, Years 3 and 4 wove wool around sticks to create a spider’s web, making sure to have enough tension in the thread that it would hold. They designed some spiders to sit on their webs using their own initiative.
Garage Band Year 5 students were given the very special opportunity of experiencing and performing in an iPad Band, using the software program Garageband. Despite most of them never using the software before, they got to grips with it quickly, and learnt how to set up the chords they needed to play, learnt how to perform musically, and in time together in a group containing acoustic guitars, keyboards, drums, bass guitar, organ and electric guitar! We were very fortunate to have had David Kirtlan, the Apple Education trainer to deliver the workshop, and we all learnt a lot about Music and Performance; Mrs Hussey learnt some things too so hopefully she can continue to take iPad Bands in Music lessons in the future.
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