This week, the children have worked hard to produce a first draft of their chosen mini beast art work to go along with their non chronological report. Together, the artwork and the writing will form the children’s final product for their expedition. In order to draw this, they needed to use and apply the skills they have been taught previously; thinking about aspects such as tone, shading and shape. After producing the draft, they critiqued each others work where they will use this feedback to attempt the second draft next week. If it’s anything to go by the first piece, then the results of the second attempt should be even more outstanding than the first. Well done to all!

The children have worked very hard on drawing Emperor Moths. When working on their drawing, they used shading skills, tone (both light and dark) as well as different stroke techniques to create the finished result. All children worked hard and showed a great amount of resilience and effort.

To launch our first term’s expedition all about mini beasts, we had a mini beast expert visit NJS. She bought in a variety of creepy crawlies from across the globe for the children to look at and handle. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience which was had by all!

At the beginning of our expedition, we had some ‘special guests’ visit NJS…