After losing a day in the studio due to the Bank Holiday, 1BN had a really busy week getting everything finished in time for our Arts Celebration on Friday. We began the week by reading the story Bog Baby and then went for a walk down to the Nursery Lane gate to look at the bluebells. Once we were back in the studio we designed our own Bog Baby or creature, deciding if we ere going to give it different features such as wings, horns or a tail.

The children then used clay to create a 3D sculpture of their Bog Baby and once it had dried we painted them. Finally the children used a polystyrene tile to draw their Bog Baby onto and then used a roller and ink to cover the tile in a single colour. The tile was then placed onto a piece of paper and a clean roller was used to create a print of their creature.

We finished our Arts Fortnight this afternoon, welcoming lots of parents into school to celebrate all the children’s achievements with us and have a go at some of the activities themselves. The children performed their dance, that they have spent the last two weeks working hard to rehearse and perfect then we split into groups and went around our three different activities. In the studio, we did some more observational drawings of tulips, in the classroom we used Plasticine to make some more Bog Babies and in the library, Miss Whiteley read the story of Bog Baby and then the children had to hunt around the library with their adult to see how many Bog Babies they could find.

A big thank you to all the parents who came to see the children share their work, they were so proud to show you everything they have achieved during these busy two weeks!