Year 6′s fundraising efforts continued this weekend at the Craft Fair. The Best Banz stall raised £66 thanks to the joint effort of a huge team of workers who had helped prepare a dazzling array of Friendship Bands for sale. Crafty entrepreneurs in the company also realised a further profit could be made by demonstrating the technique as an activity at the fair, enticing customers with the promise of making their own bands. Meanwhile, a further band of Year 6 took it in turns to sell chocolates and sweets that we had made. This also made a profit of over £50. Well done to everyone who helped or supported over the weekend.
There are some talented artists in Year 6, although many of the children need convincing that they “can do it”. Recently, we have been looking at the work of Thomas Barnardo, using photographs he took in the nineteenth century of street children. We used pencil, watercolour and ink to create our own versions of the haunting black and white images. Having looked at the photos, we studied some similar portraits submitted by Year 5 children for an exhibition at the National Gallery, in London.
Click here to see the ones from the National Gallery
On first viewing these, Year 6 were doubtful of their ability to produce such high quality work ! Some of the comments heard ranged from disbelief to total denial that they too could do it. Now, a few weeks later, we are finishing our paintings and reviewing what we have learnt about ourselves as well as our ability in art !
This shows what happens when you believe you can achieve something great.
Please pop into class to see our paintings and read why we are so proud of what we have learnt.
