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Easter Art in the Afterschools club

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The Afterschools clubs finished up their 4 week block this week.
3rd/4th classes had great fun learning tunes on the tin whistle and doing sports with Mr.Gallagher.
5th/6th class have been getting crafty the last few weeks with Ms. Leonard. They produced some lovely ribbon weaves. They finished off this week showing their creativity by producing a lovely range of Easter Art – from translucent coloured Easter Eggs, to origami rabbits, inventive Easter characters and mixed material Easter Eggs.

 

Look out for more clubs after the Easter break.

4th and 5th Class Sculptures

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We were inspired to construct these after viewing pictures of sculptures by 20th century Swiss artist, Alberto Giacometti. Giacometti sculpted hundreds of stick people in different poses.His sculptures varied in sizes, from larger than life figures to figures that could fit inside a matchbox!!

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We first used pipe-cleaners to create the basic shapes we wanted. The next step involved márla, which we used for the base of our figures. The weight of the márla allowed us to stand our figures upright. It was quite tricky to find a suitable pose to allow them to balance properly. For the final stage we used strips of tin-foil to entirely cover the figures. This gives them a nice polished finish. We hope you like them!