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To begin our new Art unit (Architecture)

01-11-2023

To begin our new Art unit (Architecture) the children researched our focus artist, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. He designed buildings such as @LivCathedral and @BatterseaPwrStn , along with the red telephone box. #RPArt

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Year 5 have worked extremely hard on their sketching in art.

01-11-2023

Year 5 have worked extremely hard on their sketching in art. Look at some of the amazing work they have produced. They are so proud of themselves and very impressed with the outcome after learning new skills. #RPart.

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After reading our story about ‘Leaf Man’…

01-11-2023

After reading our story about ‘Leaf Man’, the children had a go at painting their own Leaf Man in our art area! How fantastic! ??? #RPArt

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In art we have been looking at different types of line, shapes and also colour.

01-11-2023

In art we have been looking at different types of line, shapes and also colour. Starting with shape, we then moved onto lines and then combined our learning to create abstract art made up of overlapping shapes, colour and a variety of lines!

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YR Art

01-11-2023

In Art this week, we practiced our shading, smudging, cross hatching and line drawing using different sketching pencils and charcoal to then apply onto our own self-portraits!

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Y5 WATMO Project

17-12-2023

Checkout these space pictures we created with oil pastels during our WATMO after school club. #RPEnrichment

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Our Mural at Huyton Train Station

29-01-2024

A mural capturing everything the community loves about #Huyton has been unveiled at Huyton Train Station.

@luke_crump worked with Huyton schools to create the fun artwork which can be found on platform 4 at the station orlo.uk/C9etk
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YN Superheroes Topic

29-01-2024

WOW! After launching our topic of ‘Superheroes’, Nursery were set the challenge of creating their own superhero shield at home! Look how fantastic they are!  #RPEYFS #RPArt

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Y5 Forest School

29-01-2024

Working collaboratively to tie knots, create art and get into a shelter. The cold certainly didn’t stop Y5 learning outside with @Littlefoothq this week. #RPForestschool

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Y6 Art

29-01-2024

During Art, we have been exploring the work of @IanFennelly. We began our unit by researching our artist and his style. We sketched iconic Liverpool buildings, and practiced our use of watercolours. This allowed us to create our own piece based on the school building. #RPArt

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EYFS Craft Club

04-02-2024

This week Nursery and Reception worked collaboratively to create this amazing superhero city! They all worked very hard and supported each other. They made sure to include people, towers, trees, vehicles and obviously some superheroes! 

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Y4 Art

04-02-2024
In art, we learnt how artists create texture in their paintings in a variety of ways. To do this we added sand and salt to our water colours. Next, we painted over wax and finally we used tissue paper to apply the paint  #RPArt
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Y3 Art

04-02-2024

In Art this week, we have been experimenting using watercolour to mix different Earthy tones. We also practiced three different type of washes – flat, variegated and graded.#RPArt

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EYFS Craft Club

24-02-2024

For our final craft club session we created our own mini-me superheroes! 

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Y3 Art

24-02-2024

In Art, we used our learned skills of watercolour washing and relief printing to create our final pieces inspired by the Stone Age cave paintings in Lascaux. #RPArt

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Y4 Art

24-02-2024

In art today we continued our topic of abstract art. We sprayed water onto our paper, then dropped drawing ink and used our palette knives to spread and the combine colours  #RPArt

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Y2 Art

24-02-2024

In Art, Y2 have been recapping their knowledge of primary & secondary colours while also experimenting with a range of different painting techniques used by Claude Monet in his impressionist paintings Haystacks. They can’t wait to use these in their final piece. #RPArt

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Y5 Art

24-02-2024

Year 5 have used William Morris’ designs as inspiration to design their own wallpaper. Firstly, we have planned and created a printing block. #RPART

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Y1 Art

24-02-2024

In art we have been looking at printing and painting. After exploring primary and secondary colours, we collected natural objects around school that we could then print with using a mix of both primary and secondary colours and the new skills we had learnt  #RPArt

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Y6 Geography Trip

24-02-2024

To end our fantastic trip to @MuseumLiverpool, we took the opportunity to sketch the water front in the style of

@IanFennelly We enjoyed taking in our surroundings and looking at the buildings in detail. #RPEnrichment #RPArt
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Y4 Art

25-02-2024

The children really enjoyed using their painting skills to create abstract artwork, inspired by global warming. #RPArt

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Y5 Art

25-02-2024

Patterns planned, printing blocks created, colours chosen. It was now time to load up our rollers with paint and create our wallpaper #rpart

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Y5 Dot Art Competition

25-02-2024

Year 5s @dotartschools entries have been selected and uploaded. Watch this space for the next part of our journey. #RPART

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YN World Book Day

09-03-2024

Look at our fantastic paper plate characters for #WorldBookDay2024  So creative!

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YN Art

31-03-2024

Today we have explored colour mixing.  We discussed what happens when we mix different colours together. We also talked about making colours lighter or darker! The children enjoyed exploring the different paints and creating their own colours!  #RPArt

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Y5 Dot Art Competition

13-04-2024

Can you spare a moment to vote for your favourite piece of Art work from Y5? Vote online for your favourite shortlisted piece in April and then the shortlisted entry from each school with the most votes wins a place in the public exhibition in June

Click on the link to vote: https://t.co/Abk3WrsoUt 

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YR Picture News

04-05-2024

Our @HelpPicture this week was one Reception could really relate to, they love being artist. We discussed leaving art in different places and how we value each other’s art. It links with our British Value of Respect and Tolerance.

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YN Forest School

04-05-2024

Nursery had a fantastic time at Forest School with @Littlefoothq We enjoyed collecting natural materials to create our very own clay faces! We then practised our rope skills by making different shapes and tying them around trees! What a great day! #RPEnrichment

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Y1 Art

04-05-2024

We have started our new art unit where we will be creating a collage depicting a season by using weaving and a variety of materials. We began today by colour sorting various materials and fabrics! Well done Year 1  #RPArt

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Y6 Forest School

08-05-2024

This week, we had a fantastic time in forest school with @Littlefoothq! From fire lighting, matching colour with natural materials and flower printing, Year 6 enjoyed exploring the first sights of spring. #RPForestschool #RPEnrichment

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EYFS Craft Club

08-05-2024

We had a fantastic time in club tonight making sea themed sun catchers. Children couldn’t wait to get home and put them in the window.

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YN Art

08-05-2024

We have been learning about different countries and exploring their flags. Nursery have been very busy painting different flags from around the world!  #RPArt

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Y4 Art

08-05-2024

In art we have been looking at how to create a mixed media seascape. In preparation of our final piece we experimented with a variety of materials to see which would be the most effective for our seascapes  #RPArt

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Y2 Forest School

08-05-2024

Year 2 had a great forest school session with @Littfoothq. The children worked together to create natural prints while also practicing their knot tying skills. #ForestSchool #outdoorlearning #RPEnrichment

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Y3 Art

08-05-2024

In Art we were experimenting with the medium of air dry clay. We practiced making shapes and even had our first try at a torso. #RPArt

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Y3 Forest School

19-05-2024

In Forest School, we pitched our own shelters and practiced knot tying. Then, we had to create our own clay animal using decorations and imprints from natural resources! #RPForestSchool #RPEnrichment

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EYFS Craft Club

19-05-2024

In craft club this week, we created a fish bowl with a moving fish. Children used a slider to enable the fish to move. They loved decorating the tank and showed great resilience with their cutting skills. #RPDT

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Y5 Art

19-05-2024

In art this week, children were challenged to make a sculpture of a figure using only a length of wire and tin foil. After a bit of trial and error……..Success! We will now use these figures and a light source to create shadows for us to sketch. #RPArt

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Y5 Forest School

19-05-2024

Working collaboratively and using natural resources to create a natural picture frame brought out the creativity in year 5 this week with

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Y4 Forest School

19-05-2024

Year 4 had a fantastic forest school session with @Littlefoothq. We focused on achieving our blue and brown badges. To receive the blue badge you need to create a range of natural art pieces and to get the brown badge you had to identify natural materials #RPEnrichment

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EYFS Craft Club

19-05-2024

This week children went outside to paint and draw. We enjoyed being outside and creating collaboratively.

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YR Forest School

19-05-2024

Children enjoyed using flowers to make natural perfume. We made some art using a rock to transfer flowers on to the fabric. We ended with some creative rope skills.

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Y2 Art

19-05-2024

This week in art we have been learning about the artists Anthony Gormley and Andy Goldsworthy. The children loved working collaboratively to create their own piece of land art inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. #RPArt #creative #art

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Y3 Art

19-05-2024

In Art, we created our final sculpture out of clay which was inspired by Anthony Gormley. We had a great time learning different techniques to make our proportionate torso and head. #RPArt

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Y5 Art

19-05-2024

The final stage of our art unit. We created shadows of our sculptures using shading techniques #RPArt

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Y2 Forest School

15-06-2024

Y2 had a fantastic forest school session that led to lots of badges! We worked on our fire lighting skills before working collaboratively to create a piece of artwork using natural materials. We also used potato peelers to develop our whittling skills. #RPEnrichment @Littfoothq

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Y6 Forest School

24-07-2024

We had a lovely session of forest school with @littlefoothq. We worked on our team building skills, practiced fire lighting and made natural art! #RPForestschool #RPEnrichment

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Y2 Art

12-10-2024

In art this week we practiced and developed our sketching techniques by exploring the effects of different pencil grades. We can’t wait to apply these skills to our final piece next week. #RPArt

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Y3 Art

12-10-2024

During Art this week, we began using sketching pencils and charcoal to blend, smudge and cross hatch. Then, we experimented with facial symmetry in our first attempt at a portrait. #RPArt

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Y4 Art

12-10-2024

In Art we have exploring how to draw shadows using tone. We began by exploring how a light source effects shadows and experimented with using the cross hatching technique  #RPArt

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Y6 Art

13-10-2024

During Art this week, we have started to explore architecture and how the

was designed and created by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. We have practiced the skill of sketching using two perspective points and are looking forward to designing our own cathedral! #RPArt

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Y3 Art

22-10-2024

In our Art unit this term, we created self portraits. We used our learned skills of blending and smudging with both charcoal and sketching pencils to create our final piece. #RPArt

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Y1 Art

23-10-2024

In art, we have been looking at marks and exploring the use of line, shape and colour. We looked at work by Sarah Morris and have since been experimenting with shape and different lines!

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Y4 Forest School

24-10-2024

We had a fantastic forest school session with @Littlefoothq

We worked collaboratively to put up our own shelter, created a natural paint brush and attempted to get our first fire lighting badge  #RPForestSchool #RPEnrichment

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Y5 Art

24-10-2024

We’ve really enjoyed our art lessons this week. We began by researching famous fashion designers and creating factfiles and then we learnt how to draw a correctly proportioned human body!

#RPART

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Y1 Art

24-10-2024

In art, we used what we have learnt about shape, colour and lines to create our final piece. We overlapped shapes and then added colour and line in an abstract way. You have worked so hard year 1, well done!

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YN Forest School

11-11-2024

Nursery had an amazing time at forest school. We searched for bugs and we made faces using natural materials. We also used rope to make shapes and even got to see how to start fire!

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Y5 Art

11-11-2024

Year 5 have been getting creative in art this week and have become budding fashion designers! Some fantastic looking clothes in here!! #RPART

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Y3 Forest School

21-11-2024

We had an amazing @Littlefoothq Forest School session this morning. We created shelters, made art with leaves and practiced our knot tying skills. #RPForestSchool

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YR Home Learning

29-11-2024

Reception have done an amazing job at creating their telescopes for their home learning! They are all ready for our star gazing night walk tomorrow! #RPEnrichment

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KS2 Craft Club

29-11-2024

KS2 craft club has seen us make exciting festive creations. Last week we created stain glass Christmas cards and this week we built upon those skills making stain glass lanterns. Next week we look forward to making a Christmas wreath each

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Y3 Art

25-01-2025

In Art, we have been researching and analysing the Stone Age cave paintings from Lascaux, France. We looked at many different examples and annotated the things we could see, our opinions and why we think the artist created each piece. #RPArt

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EYFS Craft Club

26-01-2025

On Friday we had our first EYFS Craft Club! We worked very hard to design and create superhero masks! #RPEnrichment

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EYFS Craft Club

26-01-2025

This week we have created our very own Supertatos! Well done everyone! 

#RPEnrichment

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Y3 Art

26-01-2025

In our Art lesson today, we experimented creating earthy tones inspired by the cave paintings. We used watercolours to blend different primary and secondary colours. #RPArt

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Y4 Art

26-01-2025

In Art we have been focusing on the topic of abstract painting. We developed our understanding of texture, experimented with drawing ink and created a abstract piece based on climate change  #RPArt

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Y5 Dot Art Competition

01-02-2025

Members of @Year5RobyPark have been lucky enough to work with local artist @ChrisConlinArt on their mixed media self portrait

 @dotartschools entries. We look forward to seeing the end results.
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Y1 Art

01-02-2025

After looking at printing work by Andy Warhol we found natural objects we could use to print with. After planning our work, we used what we had collected to make prints of natural objects and used what we had learnt about colour mixing for the colours we used! #RPArt

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Y2 Art

01-02-2025

Y2 had a creative afternoon where they practised and developed a range painting techniques that they will use in their final piece later on in the week. They also revisited some key knowledge from Y1 on how to use primary colours to make secondary colours #RPArt

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Y3 Art

01-02-2025

In Art, we completed our paintings inspired by the caves in Lascaux. We used watercolour washes for our background and we printed our animal on top. #RPArt

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EYFS Craft Club

01-02-2025

Today we each made a superhero mini-me!

#RPEnrichment

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Y5 Art

01-02-2025

Also this week in art, we designed and created our own William Morris inspired wallpaper using repeated patterns and created using our choice of printing block. #RPArt

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Y5 Art

01-02-2025

In Art, we have learnt about William Morris and his use of repeated patterns in his designs. We then experimented with different types of printing blocks to create patterns. #RPArt

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