This year The Big Draw took place on Monday 14th October at Robin Hood. This is the third year we have taken part and we wanted to create the "wow" factor that you get when you first walk into the school hall and it looks completely different to usual. The past two Big Draw events we have held had white paper covering the hall's floor, to create a blank canvas on which we could draw. This year we turned the hall into "outside." There was a green floor, a stream, a path and a wall, all ready to be drawn onto...
...and this we did. Throughout the day, each class visited the hall and were inspired to draw and make marks all over the floor, imagining what they would see in the grass, stream, on the path and on the wall.
We had lots of fabulous mini-beasts, fish, frogs on lily-pads-even a fairy at the bottom of the garden from our Foundation stage and Key Stage 1.
Whilst Lower Key Stage 2 drew us a fantastic allotment with vegetables, scarecrows and even pumpkins for Halloween. Upper Key Stage 2 designed us a skate park, drawing skateboards, graffiti and the Robin Hood Primary School tree in the brightest neon colours.
Throughout the day every child in each class was drawing in some way, be it pencil, paint, creating line and form with collage, oil pastels, glass paints, powder paints, glitter, felt pens....
....Nursery made us a massive caterpillar collaged with recycled plastic bags, plastic lids, pipe cleaners and coloured foil paper.
Reception made the most beautiful giant butterfly that had been collaged with a myriad of coloured paper.
Key Stage 1 created abstract birds, fishes and frogs which they put together in fabulously interesting ways.
Lower Key Stage 2 produced three large paintings which they had studied and divided into equal parts. They then each worked on a section and pieced it back together.
They also painted some great colourful skylines on acetate. Upper Key Stage 2 designed graffiti and artwork for the wall which certainly added a splash of colour.
At 3pm we opened our hall doors to proudly show off all our fantastic creations.
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