On South Site there is Wren's(Year 2) Peace Bridge. They considered how much busier, noisier and more chaotic the cities of the future might be before creating their bridge - a peaceful, calm place to stop a while on your way from A to B. The rainbow design shows the hope and love they have for the future.
Year 3's 'future houses' made from recycled plastic bottles. Swan went for a 'modern round house' having been inspired by the traditional round hose structures that saw on their trip to Celtic Harmony. Swallows when for a futuristic Art House, with individual Art messages in each bottle.
Buzzard, Year 4 created a pyramid inspired by their last topic on the Ancient Egyptians, but they gave it an 'arty' twist as each side reflected the differing styles of Peter Blake, the British pop artist. Peter Blake used to teach at the Walthamstow School of Art and this year also marks the 50th anniversary of his famous Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover design for The Beatles.
Meanwhile on North Side Year 6, have transformed their whole building into the futuristic Tetris Towers, with pixellated pictures all over their windows. Pictures to follow.
Year 5,recognised the inventiveness of the Vikings, who designed and built longships that got them all the way to America, nearly 500 years before Columbus. Here the varnish on their shields is just drying in the longboat and their Viking oarsman is yet to arrive.
Year 4 went even further back to the amazing engineering feat of the pyramids, putting their own artistic twist on the iconic design, including a shout out to Keith Haring, himself influenced by the art of the Egyptians.
Year 3 celebrated everyday design - houses, with their Mini Holland ones. They took their inspiration from the famous Dutch painters Van Gogh and Mondrian, as well as the great wall/graffiti art of Walthamstow.
Year 2 looked at bridges and how that amazing technology links places. Each class taking a different style and using different materials - natural, man-made and recycled. Waxwing did a totally recycled bridge using old boxes, plastic bottles and scraps of tissue and foil; Woodpecker used wood, lolly sticks and paperclips; Wagtails used rocks, wire and scraps of ribbon.
Year 1 have given a nod to the River Lea and the canals of London, by creating their own barges made from lolly sticks; acknowledging the importance of our waterways and the technology used to harness them. Their barges sit on some woven water, with a woven natural backdrop created by Year 1 Art Club.
So this was Monday, aside from Reception's cars on NS, their space ship on SS (it was so windy, we decided to put theirs out the next day) and Year 1's barge on SS which needed a bit more varnish....everything was out. Then on Monday night British Summertime fought back! The wind and rain were horrendous - far, far worse than anticipated. So this was Tuesday on NS:
The Mondrian house was beyond saving, Waxwing's bridge, Van Gogh's flower house and the midnight pyramid went to Art A&E for major restorative work; a couple of the barges and Woodpecker's bridge needed a bit of TLC. On SS the Peace Brige held firm as did the plastic houses (until a 2nd bout of awful weather on Tuesday) but the Peter Blake Pyramid need some TLC.....as did everything else by the end of Tuesday!
By Thursday, the weather (although still a tad windy) had improved and we began getting things out again....not quite its former glory but hanging in there...
More bits were added on both NS and SS on Friday and with a fine weekend of weather before us, will hopefully hold up for the weekend - pictures of all the final exhibits in situ to come next week, so check back then!
And here they are....the final pics.
Year 6 - Tetris Towers.
Nursery's woven rainbow.
Everything else out on NS
Everything else out on SS - in glorious sunshine too! What a difference a week makes!!
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