New Prologues to the Lady of Shalott

We have been writing our own new prologue verses to the Lady of Shalott, following the pattern of the poem.
Here are our efforts:

Bethan:

'T'is the fairy' the whispers sang,
And the blue-bells simply rang,
The diamonds in the sky they hang,
Above the witch and her gang,
In for Camelot.
She's the mother of Lancelot,
She maybe good or maybe not,
She trapped her there, left to rot,
In the tower of Shalott.

Eleanor:

One year her mother went away,
Her dad went missing the next day,
Her prison was where she had to stay,
Strict rules she must always obey,
Locked away from Camelot,
Her life was gloomy all her time,
She hath no lover she lived to pine,
She never had her time to shine,
The child of Shallot.

Cassie:

There was a lady called Daisy,
All the people called her crazy,
She couldn't see things she was hazy,
She was sleeping being lazy,
Stood there in Camelot,
She's the lover of Lancelot,
Another made her jealous she had planned a plot,
She decided to leave rot,
The lady of Shallott.

Iwan:

Huge anger gripped amongst the king,
As a concerned child did sing,
She had done a very dark thing,
Terrible trouble that she bring,
Trapped away in Camelot.
They dragged her out while she was asleep,
Prisoned in a tower she did weep,
All the secrets she would keep,
The Lady of Shalott.

Ryan:

One year her mother rode away,
Her dad died the very next day,
Her dad in a coffin he lay,
Now locked in a tower dark and grey,
Away from Camelot.
Scared she now felt sick,
Thinking and knowing its a trick,
All the tower was made of brick,
Around about Shallot.

Eliza:

There once was a crazy sister,
She had a horrible mister,
Her mum and dad had missed her,
Sir Lancelot kissed her,
Away from Camelot.
Her sister she had hated,
Him she wished she had dated,
If only sir Lancelot had waited,
Down in old shallot.

Charcoal portraits

As we continue our study of all things art in our Gallery topic, today our pupils have been experimenting with charcoal. They were challenged to draw a portrait of a friend in the class.

Here were their efforts:

Stencil Graffiti

After reading up on Banksy we experimented with graffiti by making stencils out of card. 

Here are some of our efforts:

Gallery home research project information

Autumn 2 Home research project – Topic - Gallery

You are to compile a research project on a famous artist (classical, modern, sculpture, photographer). This can be typed or hand written. It cannot be a set of text copied and pasted from a website – it has to be your own work in your own words. It should have a mixture of writing/typing and pictures. These pictures can be copied from the internet; printed out or drawn. I am quite interested in artists I do not know much about – surprise me!

Your research project could be given in the form of a file if wanted. It could also be in the form of a PowerPoint/Prezi/Keynote slideshow presentation, a leaflet or a video.

How long does it need to be? How long is a piece of string?

It would need to have the following:

Personal information about the artist and his family

·        Name

·        Where born

·        Date of birth/death

·        Family life

·        When they started painting and why?

·        Where he lived/lives

Pictures of the artist’s work

Picture of the artist

Awards/prizes

Most famous/valuable piece

Who were they influenced by?

Who have they influenced?

This research project will need to be in by Friday December 4^th

Good luck!

Year 4/5/6 self portraits

 
To kick off our Gallery topic we looked at articles of the most famous and most expensive paintings ever. We then decided to design our new topic front covers by drawing self portraits using oil pastels. Here are our results. 

The Lady of Shalott - video of the poem

Next half term we will be studying the Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Here is a video of the poem for you to watch and read in preparation. 

Scream Machine - paper roller coasters

We have been studying the topic Scream Machine this term, looking at the science of roller coasters. We have researched roller coasters, rode them 'virtually', written poems and made carts to name but a few of our activities. The culmination of this topic was for our thinking groups to plan, design and make their own paper roller coasters.

Each group had to come up with a theme for their ride and were all given the same sized wooden cuboid frame (however, unfortunately Gwyrdd's broke so an emergency K-Nex one was built!). 

We researched how to make curves, loop the loops and other paper roller coaster features and got busy making!

Here are our final efforts:

Porffor: Jurassic World

Oren: Space Mania

Gwyrdd: Coral Reef

Melyn: Despicable Doodles

Pinc: Ultron

  

We invited Year 3/4 to come and evaluate our roller coasters. They were given four questions to consider when viewing each one:

1. Which is your overall favourite?
2. Which one would you like to ride?
3. Which was the most attractive?
4. Which one worked the best?

The results were:

1. Which is your overall favourite?
Porffor - Jurassic World - 12
Gwyrdd - Coral Reef - 7
Oren - Space Mania - 6
Pinc - Ultron - 3
Melyn - Despicable Doodles - 1

2. Which one would you like to ride?
Oren - Space Mania - 8
Porffor - Jurassic Park - 7
Pinc - Ultron - 6
Gwyrdd - Coral Reef - 4
Melyn - Despicable Doodles - 2

3. Which was the most attractive?
Melyn - Despicable Doodles - 6
Oren - Space Mania - 6
Gwyrdd - Coral Reef - 6
Porffor - Jurassic World - 5
Pinc - Ultron - 5

4. Which one worked the best?
Gwyrdd - Coral Reef - 9
Porffor - Jurassic World - 6
Oren - Space Mania - 6
Pinc - Ultron - 5
Melyn - Doodles - 2