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Category Archives: Art

Super Sewing in Class 6!

Thursday, 18th Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What a wonderful afternoon of sewing we’ve had in Mrs Graham’s class today! The children absolutely blew us away with their amazing sewing skills, showing incredible concentration, determination and patience. […]

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Art, News and Events, Year 4

Y3S Pastel Sketchbook Work

Monday, 15th Marchby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today Class 4 worked in their sketch books to blend primary colours to mix brand new colours – also known as: secondary colours. We then used base colours, black and […]

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Art, Year 3

Fabric Work in Class 6

Wednesday, 10th Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What a wonderful start Year 4 have made to their fabric artwork this week! We can’t wait to see these on display!

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Art, Year 4

In school afternoon Art lesson with Miss Sare

Wednesday, 10th Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today Miss Sare’s bubble had a screen free afternoon and continued to develop our sketching and shading skills. We looked at how to create tone to our learning. We look […]

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Art, Well-being, Year 3

Roughwood’s Spring Art Competition

Monday, 1st Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Do you love being creative and using your imaginative skills? Do you love expressing yourself using many different art techniques? If so, create a unique piece of art using ‘Spring’ […]

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Art, Distance Learning, News and Events

Y3S – 2D Shapes Top Trumps

Monday, 1st Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Y3S were set the task of designing and creating their own 2D shaped top trump game. They had to use key mathematical vocabulary that they had learnt in their live […]

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Art, Maths, Year 3

Year 5 begin their embroidery – Lockdown 2021

Thursday, 28th Januaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

After making up the art packs for the year 5 children at home, the children in year 5 had their very first live lesson on embroidery from home. We learnt […]

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Art, Year 5

First Attempt Sketches in Y3S

Thursday, 21st Januaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Class 4 were given a task to research some following Art vocabulary and then apply them to their sketching attempt number one. They then had to follow some step by […]

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Art, Year 3

Observational Drawing in Y4

Monday, 18th Januaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 children have been using their resilience skills in Art this afternoon, carefully observing and drawing what they see. Take a look … Well done everyone!

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Art, Year 4

Our first day learning from home

Friday, 13th Novemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Today is the first day the KS1 bubble have spent at home. We had our first zoom meeting so that we all know what to expect on Monday and we […]

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Art, PSHCE, Year 1, Year 2

Evacuee Art Y6

Thursday, 22nd Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children in Year 6 have been focusing on the proportions of the human boys while drawing evacuees. We have used pencil and markers to draw the outline and we are […]

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Art, News and Events, Year 6

Pastel Art Year 3

Wednesday, 14th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Year 3 have been creating tones and textures with pastels linked to our topic about steel. Our scrap metal art is looking fantastic.

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Art, Year 3

Zentangle leaves

Friday, 2nd Octoberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Year 4 learnt a new art skill yesterday and practised zentangle patterns. We tried some in our sketchpads first and then went onto our leaf pictures. It took a lot […]

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Art, Year 4

Lovely published learning in Year 3

Thursday, 1st Octoberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

The children in Class 4 have done a fabulous job at achieving Miss Sare’s super high expectations. Their ‘Dear Diary’ pieces of writing looks beautiful in our Classroom and both […]

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Art, Literacy, Year 3

Creating art with nature in year 4

Tuesday, 15th Septemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

As part of our Survivial/Robin Hood topic, we looked at how people have used nature and natural surroundings to create artwork. We then created our own, making weavings using resources […]

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Art, Year 4

Class 4 are learning new colouring techniques

Friday, 4th Septemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Class 4 have been practicing some new colouring techniques that they will now be able to apply in their future illustrations. We have learnt new techniques such as gradate, layer, […]

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Art, Year 3

Striking blitz silhouette artwork in Y6W

Thursday, 3rd Septemberby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Children in Year 6 have started using their creative pastel techniques as we start our new topic.

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Art, News and Events, Year 6

Y5 pen and ink astronauts

Monday, 6th Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Phenomenal artwork in Mrs Miller’s Year 5 bubble today! It took the children a lot of patience and resilience but the results are outstanding.

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Art, Year 5

Year 5 solar system pastel artwork

Thursday, 2nd Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Year 5 created some stunning pastel artwork based on the solar system.

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Art, Science, Year 5

Year 5 colour wheels

Thursday, 2nd Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We learnt about primary, secondary and tertiary colours and practised our colour mixing skills

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Art, Year 5

Year 5 colour wheels

Monday, 15th Juneby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Class 7 and 8 produced some fantastic colour wheels at home to show their understanding of primary, secondary and tertiary colours

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Art, Distance Learning, Year 5

Andy Warhol

Friday, 5th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Since completing our topic in Y6, we didn’t get a chance to look at the post-war history and the wonderful things which followed. Today we have studied Andy Warhol and […]

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Art, News and Events, Year 6

Year 5M Earth Collages

Friday, 24th Aprilby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

It was back to distance learning on Monday and WOW! Class 7 were certainly ready and raring to go. Look at these outstanding collages they produced at home – the […]

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Art, Distance Learning, Our learning, Science, Year 5

Poppy Art in Y6W

Wednesday, 26th Februaryby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Our watercolour poppy artwork is progressing well. We are looking forward to the finished product.

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Art, News and Events, Year 6

Class 4 – developing our sketching and drawing techniques

Monday, 24th Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today Class 4 continued to work on editing and improving their sketching skills. They worked really hard on drawing to scale and getting a good level of detail using different […]

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Art, Year 3

Y3S Sketching

Wednesday, 12th Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today class 4 were working on a variety of sketching techniques including cross hatching and stippling. They learnt how to create tone and texture too. We will be attempting to […]

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Art, Year 3

Dragon pencil artwork in Class 7

Tuesday, 4th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We have been learning how to use our pencils to create effective artwork, using shade and tone.

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Art, News and Events, Our learning, Year 5

Art

Wednesday, 29th Januaryby Miss Pepper Leave a comment

Mrs Robbins has been in class 2 today teaching us some key skills for painting using water colours. First we painted primary colours and then mixed these to make secondary […]

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Art, News and Events

Creating Tone with Pen

Wednesday, 8th Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Using our tone skills in Year 1 with different pens and pencils ready for our picture this work based on our wonderful local city Sheffield. Looming forward to the outcomes.

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Art, Year 1

Setting Descriptions

Tuesday, 7th Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

In year 1 we have been creating some pastel art to help us with our literacy where we are writing setting descriptions.

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Art, Literacy, News and Events, Year 1

Art🖋

Thursday, 21st Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

This afternoon Y3D have been learning how to use Pen and Ink, using different techniques such as: Hatching, Cross-Hatching and Stippling.

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Art, News and Events

Creating our Remembrance wreath in Class 7

Tuesday, 12th Novemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We worked together to create our wreath, which is now proudly on display in our classroom.

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Art, Philosophy for Children, Year 5

Pen and Ink

Friday, 25th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children have used their knowledge of hatching and cross-hatching to great tone in these fantastic pen and ink images of Tudor homes.

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Art, Year 5

Harvest Festival Assembly

Featuredby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Roughwood Primary school perform beautifully for the Harvest Festival. We are incredibly proud of all Roughwood learners. Thank you to all parents and carers for attending. We are so very […]

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Art, Music, News and Events

Superhero Craft- Family Learning

Tuesday, 15th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Thank you to all the parents that engaged in our family learning session on Monday. It was a great event, which the children thoroughly enjoyed! We hope you enjoyed it too.

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Acorns, Art, Family Learning, News and Events

Archimboldo designs

Thursday, 10th Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Class 6 are busy creating some portraits in the style of the artist 👩‍🎨 Arcimboldo, using images of harvest produce.

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Art, News and Events

Class 4 – Applying our colour mixing skills

Wednesday, 9th Octoberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today class 4 applied their new colour mixing skills to complete a rainforest inspired painting! As you can see the children thought hard about what colours they would need and […]

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Art, Geography, Year 3

Colour mixing in the puddles

Friday, 4th Octoberby misshsingleton Leave a comment

In Chestnuts this week we have been exploring colour mixing. We learnt about Primary colours and mixed them together to make secondary colours.  

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Acorns, Art, Chesnuts, News and Events

Creating colour wheels in Y3/S

Thursday, 26th Septemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today class 4 experimented with mixing powder paints to create warm and cool colours. We learnt how to mix the primary colours plus black and white to create new ones. […]

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Art, Year 3

Pastel and Paint Puffins

Wednesday, 25th Septemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Today we have been using pastels and paints to create different tones and strength of colour. Our puffins have turned out fantastic.

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Art, Year 6

Tudor pastel art

Monday, 16th Septemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

In Year 5 we have started our large pastel pictures, looking at Tudor patterns. We have only just started these but, as I’m sure you will agree, Class 7 have […]

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Art, Year 5

Art in Year 3

Thursday, 11th Julyby Mr Williams Leave a comment

We have been learning about different tones of colour in year 3 to make some brilliant images of leaves from the jungle and rainforest. We have used pastels, watercolour and […]

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Art, Geography, Year 3

Pen Potions

Thursday, 6th Juneby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Class 7 rose to the challenge to beat the teacher in creating intricately-patterned Potion Bottle Zentangles. Can you spot which one the teacher did? They are all fantastic!

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Art, News and Events

Using Indian Ink

Wednesday, 22nd Mayby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

In Class6, we are using Indian Ink to draw potion bottles with Mrs Robbins. A lot of us haven’t used this media for and it can be tricky but it […]

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Art, Year 3, Year 4

Balbir Dance

Thursday, 4th Aprilby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children have had a special visitor today in school. Children in Years 5, 3 and 2 were able to watch a professional dancer to support their performances with Balbir. Children […]

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Art, News and Events, Social Innovation, Sports, Year 2, Year 3, Year 5

Pastel Masterpieces

Tuesday, 13th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Once again Class 5 have been lucky enough to have an art session with Mrs Taylor! We have been learning how to create texture and tone using pastels. We learnt […]

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Art, News and Events, Year 3

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