'The Pirates of Rabbit Doll Island' - Battyeford's Film goes global!!!!

 

This weekends top story in the Huddersfield Examiner! Click on the link to find out more!

 

http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/mirfied-kids-set-sail-adventure-6106550

We are so lucky to have had this opportunity to work with Yvonne Roberts and Fabric Lenny through First Light ...the legacy continues, look out for more news soon ....

Life Drawing is a Breeze for Year 5!

Year 5 have been exploring drawing the human form from first hand experience, linked to their World War II theme and studies on the role of the War Artist (in this context Henry Moore)...

 

I always say that if we learn one thing in this project it is that 'curved lines suggest form'. We have been exploring this concept drawing with a range of materials and techniques. I tell the pupils that I was 17 the first time I encountered 'life drawing' and mostly they give a little gulp, before rising to the challenge and showing me the full range of their capabilities!

 

 First of all we started by capturing the figure using the wax resist technique and then over drawing with Biro's. Next we have moved on to drawing with erasers into a charcoal ground, then layering additional marks over the top. Lucky pupils (yes you Tom!) got to basically lay down and have a little nap for half the lesson whilst we drew them! They enjoyed this! Whilst our beady eyes went from paper to subject, we  captured the effect of fabric draped over the 'sheltering' bodies. This lesson has been a great success and you can see the results below....

 

 

Our boys are deep in concentration...

 "I am getting better at this!" says William
"I have been practising drawing at home with my Gran Mrs Deane, I really want to improve!" says Alex (Wonderful stuff)

       

 



The Mayans are Coming!

 

Loving this new Year 4 project! 

Having worked in our sketchbooks over the last two weeks studying the mark making and structure of Mayan imagery we are now working towards creating our own Mayan style self portraits.

 

We started today with an A3 photocopy of ourselves and used tracing paper to trace an outline of our heads. We furthered this with adding Mayan features. All the pupils loved it when Mrs Deane created a demo of a child 'Mayan Style'! Very amusing! The lesson was lapped up with extreme positivity by all of Year 4 - a really super morning! In fact Mrs Deane was hugged by a new school pupil who expressed his supreme love for the activity...

 

Please don't look at the pictures below and think this is actually what our Year 4 look like from their prep drawings! They are very clever and have been able to use their knowledge of Mayan imagery and adapt their own portrait! More to come in future weeks...

See the progression in action...

 George!

 Olivia!

 Bayleigh!

 

William!

 

 

 

 

Back with a BANG!!!!

 

Our Year 6 pupils have been taking lessons learnt from initial sketches in the last two weeks and furthering their ideas on a large scale. Now working in pairs on a background of brown paper of various shapes and sizes they have been pretty much left to their own devices to create their artefact imagery based on Ancient Greece. Now working towards or at Level 5 they are successfully selecting their own mediums to suit intentions. A brilliant start in just 1 hr. today everyone! Can't believe how much you achieved in such a short time...