Being sculptors at Leeds Art Gallery (live blog)

Class 3 have spent this morning investigating sculpture at the Art Gallery. We then created our own sculptures from card, elastic bands, string and paper clips.

In the afternoon we went into the Gallery and looked at a range of pictures. These showed us how artists could chose not to produce "photo-like" pictures, but instead represent things in different ways to express their own views of things. We used these paintings as the inspiration for our own art works.

World Class Sculpture!

Class 3 have been gaining inspiration from a world class source this week. We were lucky enough to visit Harewood to see the new sculptures by Antony Gormley. The two pieces, named 'Two States' are the latest work by the sculptor that created the Angel of the North.

The class were treated to an interactive workshop designed by the learning team at Harewood led by Anna Wiseman. Anna allowed us exclusive access to the Terrace Gallery to see the sculptures.

Due to photographic restrictions we can not show you any pictures of our visit. Luckily our Class 3 artists have created pen and ink drawings inspired by the work they saw.

This drawing by Alana shows the blocks of rusted iron that Antony Gormley used to build his sculptures.
When we returned to school we were all very keen to produce some art work of our own. We used collage, clay and ink to make our own pieces.

This is Luke's work; you can see the strong lines and angles used by Gormley.

Eve has also used the pen and ink to show the strong shapes she saw in the sculptures.

The children really enjoyed the workshop. The Learning Team at Harewood had obviously put a great deal of effort into designing the session for us.

Look out for more Gormley inspired scultpure work coming soon! Or pop in to Class 3 to see our work in progress.

Amat Ur-Rehman

Amber Bennett

New Apprentices on the Job!

Class 3 were treated to a sneak preview of the new building this week. Our three competition winners were chosen after being set a task to design a classroom of the future. Our winners had fantastic ideas ranging from a time machine to assist with history lessons to a holographic teacher to free up more of Miss King's time - genius!
Dave, our site manager, very kindly gave up his time to give us a tour. We wore our hardhats and high visibility vests to comply with the site safety regulations.

"Wow! The new classroom is huge!" said Eve. "I can't wait to start working in here!"

The children were all impressed with the new facilities, it certainly will give us a lot more room to learn.

The children tested out the new carpet. "I love the colour and it's so comfy," they said.

Dave showed us inside the magical cupboard which has the stairs to nowhere! As the building is so old many of the features had to be kept, including this flight of stairs. It makes a very handy cupboard!

We are all very excited about moving into the new part of our school, it is the start of a very exciting chapter in the long history of Harewood.