Art at Acocks Green Primary School

Art in all its forms is at the centre of our curriculum.

Christmas Card Art Competition 2022

Children based their card designs on the painting Squares with Concentric Circles by Wassily Kandinsky. Here are the fabulous winning designs from each class.

Whole School Art Day

Each year group focused on the work of a different artist from around the world. The children then took inspiration from the artist and their style of work to produce their own piece of art work. Look at what great artists they are!

Nursery - Work in the style of Wassily Kandinsky

Reception - Work in the style of Yayoi Kusama

Year 1 - Work inspired by the work of by Frida Kahlo

Year 2 - Work in the style of Paul Klee

Year 3 - Work in the style of Vincent van Gogh

Year 4 - Work in the style of Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Year 5 - Work in the style of Pablo Picasso

Year 6 - Work inspired by pop art and the work of Andy Warhol

Christmas Card Art Competition  2021

The children based their designs on the painting Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh.

Here are the winning artists with their amazing work.

2020 - 2021   

Nursery - Painting in the style of Kandinsky

Rainbow - Collaborative Art

Reception - Representing music and sounds through drawings

Year 1  Sunset Paintings

 Wax crayon rubbings of leaves

Year 2 - Clay Leaves

The Great Fire of London - Paper Art

Year 3 - Clay Vases

Block Printing

Egyptian Vase Drawings

Year 6- William Morris Inspired Relief Printing

 William Morris Inspired Block Printing

2019 - 2020

Nursery

Norah - Police Officer

1ES  - Aavai - Fireworks

1MR - Alisia - Self Portrait

2CS - Aisha - Blakesley Hall Sketch

3MJ - Meenu - Clay Pot

5JS - Winter Scene

6LP - Arvin - Portrait of Rosa Parks

6TK - Talah - Victorian and Film Character Costume Design

2018 - 2019

Nursery

Rahma and Atif  - Forrest scene

Bea and Raheem - Forrest scene

Reception

Buttercups - Miriam - Rocket

Buttercups  Alex - Space

1ES - Viren - Andy Goldsworthy (using natural materials)

1ES - Karen - Under the sea (using natural materials)

Year 2

2ES - Vehicles using junk modelling

Year 3

3EY  Blake - Flower sketch

3EY - Lorelai - Dancing Elvis

Year 5

5JS - Eid Card

Year 6

6CP - Fatima - Cubist Portrait

6CP - Hassan M - Cubist Portrait

6LP - Fearne - Cubist Portrait

Spring 2019

Nursery

Annya - Tiger

Mussa - Under the sea wax drawing

Reception

Buttercups - Adam - Clay Bird

Buttercups - Munraj - Paper Plate Snake

Snowdrops - Brie - Walrus - Cork printing

Snowdrops - Joe - Fox painting

Year 1

1ES - Amritpal - Tissue paper butterfly

1ES - Anum - Seasons collage

Year 2

2CS - Divya - Mural

2CS - Finley - Mural

Year 3

3EY - Ayaan - Landscape painting

3EY - Daniel - Plant drawing

Year 4

4GK - Roman jewellery

Year 5

5JS - Camouflage hand

5JS - Perspective drawing

Year 6

6LP - Rebecca - Headdress design

6LP - Zakiyah - Stained glass window using tissue paper

6TK - Cassie - 

6TK - Ibraheem - Stained glass window using tissue paper

6CP - Hamza - Stained glass window with tissue paper

6CP - Kyra - Stained glass window with tissue paper

Nursery 

Reception

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6