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King's Hedges Educational Federation

Excellence, achieved through care, creativity and challenge.

King's Hedges Educational Federation

Excellence, achieved through care, creativity and challenge.

Children's Work

Art from around the school

Winter Wonderland

Congratulations to year 5! We are proud to announce that their art work has been selected to be exhibited in the Fitzwilliam Museum as part of the “Take one picture” project, based on a painting of “Cupid and Psyche” by Jacopo del Sellaio. The children created beautiful 3D models of meadow plants. These were assembled together to form one large piece of work depicting “Psyche’s bower”.

We are one of only a few schools in Cambridgeshire to be nominated for the exhibition. This display runs until March. It is free entry, so please, go along to admire their hard work!

To commemorate 100 years since the end of World War 1, every pupil in the school has created a poppy. We made them as a mark of respect and remembrance for the people who gave their lives during this conflict.

So2Speak

Pupils in So2Speak are given the opportunity to experiment with a wide range of materials and construction techniques. Whilst enjoying these creative processes the children are always encouraged to talk about what they are creating and explain how they are making it.

Nursery

The children in Nursery have access to a wide range of creative activities which explore an exciting variety of media and materials. They are given opportunities to participate in adult led projects but also to develop their skills through play and personal exploration. In addition there are cooking and baking challenges set each week too. The work of famous artists often acts as a stimulus for Art projects in Nursery but everyone can become an artist as their work is prominently displayed and clearly valued by being beautifully exhibited throughout the room.

Reception

To celebrate Chinese New Year, Reception have create some colourful, neatly cut lanterns to decorate the classroom in the style that people in China decorate their homes for this celebration. They make detailed drawing of natural plants and flowers using pencil, pen and the iPads as well as closely observed painted portraits of each other too.

Year 1

Year 1 study many different types of shoes and discover that there are shoes to suit all shapes, sizes and tastes. They come up with their own designs for shoes and then make bags for carrying them in.

Their artwork complements their topics by making wonderful marble pictures and patterns for teacups.

Year 2

As part of their topic on dogs, Y2 design collars for their canine friends. This is linked to Art by printing up versions of the collars using repeated patterns from the motifs they create. 

They also have the opportunity to experiment with creating fabulous new fillings for wraps then to sample and evaluate the success of their peers’ creations.

 Year 3 

There are some monstrous emotions in Year 3! The pupils learn sewing skills to design and make a stuffed, appliqued Emotion Monster. They learn how to adapt a design to make a pattern and then master a variety of sewing stitches to attach their fabrics together. Can you tell how their monsters are feeling?

Inspired by the work of Georgia O’Keeffe, Year 3 also try their hand at closely observed flower pictures that positively explode from the page.

Year 4

Year 4 read ‘The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane’ where a character named Bryce plays a harmonica for Edward to dance to which entertains his poorly sister. The pupils then make their own harmonicas and learnt how to vary the pitch of the sounds so that they can play their own tunes. This makes a great link with their science topic on sound and helps them to understand how instruments like their ocarinas work too.

As part of their science topic on electricity, Year 4 makes wire loop games to help improve the hand eye co-ordination of their friends. Everyone designs an exciting wire loop shape such as a hand, Batman logo and even a dinosaur, and then creates an electrical circuit to attach it to. They then play the games to test how tricky and effective they are and how much fun they are to play. Much buzzing and a lot of laughter indicates the testers enjoy playing them as much as Year 4 enjoy designing and making them.

The Moths class was inspired by the work of textile artist Mr. Finch. After studying the delightfully weird and wonderful creatures he makes, they have combined different techniques and materials to great effect and created their own soft sculptures of moths.

Year 5

Year 5 become Bread Heads! They research the wide variety of bread eaten by different cultures across the world. The pupils then go all out to design and bake the ultimate celebratory bread. Their mouthwatering loaves can be smelt throughout the corridors of the school making everyone feel hungry. In addition to evaluating the success of their bread, they write some exceedingly good adverts to accompany them.

Year 5 also try their hand at designing and engineering prototype bridges. Each group creates then explains ideas for how to adapt their prototype and make predictions as to whether a (rather brave and reckless) toy car will be able to cross the bridge successfully.

When studying their Space topic, Year 5 make pictures of rockets blasting into space. They use a variety of techniques with chalks to create imaginative solar systems and galaxies far, far away.

Year 6

Pupils who do not go on the School Journey are thrown into the Dragon’s Den! This means they are engaged in ambitious projects such as inventing and selling new biscuits. After extensive market research and some careful sampling of existing products, Y6 create a brand new product. They need to ensure it appeals to their market and will make them a profit. In addition, adverts are made to help sell their products and a PowerPoint presentation to persuade the ‘dragons’ that their design is the finest. The dragons award prizes for a variety of categories and Y6 evaluate their own success against the design criteria too. Overall, these projects are regularly judged to be ‘delicious!’