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  • Graffiti Workshops

    Published 28/06/24
    The Year 5 & 6 children took part in Graffiti Workshops last week! Professional street artist, Leon, led the children through a workshop that involved them creating their own individual boards as well as a collaborative class board. Leon taught t
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  • Just Talk Week at William Ransom

    Published 21/06/24
    This week, William Ransom pupils and staff engaged in a range of activities focused on promoting positive mental health and encouraging discussion about feelings and emotions. Miss Swinburne led some sessions around economic education, explaining
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  • Art Club

    Published 11/06/24
    Based on the art of David Hockney children in Year 2 art club have been creating their own swimming pools … complete with swimmers! When David Hockney arrived in Los Angeles in 1963 he fell in love with the city and it’s swimming pools.
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  • Animated Drawings in Year 3

    Published 30/05/24
    During the first half of the Summer term children in Year 3 have been exploring animated drawings in art. The children were introduced to the idea that animations can be made by sequencing drawings. They gathered ideas in their sketchbooks by looking
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  • A Busy Half Term in Holly

    Published 22/05/24
    The children have been learning to use their sketchbooks to practise and develop ideas. At the end of the series of lessons the children had created their own bird sculpture using all their own ideas. A Busy Half Term in Holly
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  • Rousseau tigers

    Published 21/04/24
    As part of our Art unit in Year 2, we have been looking at the work of the artist Henri Rousseau. As part of this work, we looked at how we can draw a tiger in his style while also designing a background of our own choice and style. The childre
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  • Carbon Printing Golden Fish!

    Published 07/02/24
    As part of our printing work this term Maple class have created these amazing paintings based on The Goldfish by Paul Klee. Children used carbon paper to print fish. Throughout the activity children used their sketchbooks to experiment and explore th
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  • Year 5 Still Life Drawing

    Published 23/01/24
    Our current Art topic is Objects and their Meaning, where we have been looking at a variety of different artists’ compositions, and discussing the objects they have used, and what they might mean. We have also spent time thinking about our own
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  • Art In Our Community

    Published 06/12/23
    Following a meeting with Tom Hardy, the Bid Manager at the Hitchin Bid Team, we asked what we could do as a large Hitchin school to support the town and our local community. As a result of this meeting we were tasked with filling the windows of the o
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  • Transient Art in Reception

    Published 10/11/23
    Transient art is something we do a lot of in Reception. You may or may not have heard the term before. It literally means “moveable art”. It is any creative work that does not stay fixed in its position. You may ask, why is it importan
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  • Sketchbook Wednesday in Maple

    Published 11/10/23
    Wednesdays in Maple Class are Sketchbook Wednesdays: this means that we start off the day with ten minutes of drawing in our sketchbooks. We listen to peaceful music and have a lovely calm start to our day. Today, the children were given a copy of Ch
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