Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Tuesday 7th July - Robins
Date: 6th Jul 2020 @ 8:09pm
Happy Tuesday everyone!
How are you all today? I hope you all had a super Monday and are ready for another busy day. Did you manage to complete your gratitude journal yesterday? I have been keeping one too and it has really helped me to wake up and go to bed in a good mood!
REMEMBER: Today, you can pop into school between 9am and 11.30am to see me, collect your end of year report and pick up a new home learning pack if you would like one! I would LOVE to see you all J
This morning Mrs Elson has read a story for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnUdvdAfS_k
In case you missed it yesterday, I have attached this week’s Challenge Booklet, as well as our new and updated home learning timetable.
I have also attached a pdf document with some No Outsider’s lessons for you to complete at home. They are all based on the story ‘Dog don’t do ballet’ that I read for you a couple of weeks ago. You can either listen to me reading the story again (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5h7VQfaGQo&t=7s) or the author Anna Kemp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7BoyAJOYcE). When you have listened to the story again, there are 9 lessons and worksheets for you to complete. You could choose one or two to do each day this week J
For maths and writing today we will continue with our Oak National Academy lessons looking at word meaning and our 6 times tables.
English: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/reading-comprehension-to-find-word-meanings
Have a brilliant day Robins! Please do share what you get up to with me on Twitter or over on our Class Discussion. I love to see your amazing work and lovely smiley faces. Sending you all big hugs,
Miss Beattie and Mrs Esling xxx
Message from Mrs Powell:
Good morning! This week, we are going to find out about amazing people who have done amazing things. As you read the stories, just imagine what you will do when you are older… all these amazing people once sat in a classroom just like you!
Gillian Ayres
In the 1970s, she became the first woman ever to run an art department in a British Art School! When she was older, she moved to North Wales. In Wales, she started to use oil paint again rather than acrylic paint to make her artwork. Oil paint is really thick and sometimes she would apply the paint so it would be inches thick! While she lived in Wales her artwork became even bolder and more joyful.
Gillian Ayres wanted people to be happy when they looked at her art and the world around them. Does her art make you feel happy? What other emotions do you feel?
Gillian Ayres was obsessed with painting. She is one of the most famous British abstract painters. Being an abstract painter meant you didn't care about artworks looking like real things, like people or buildings, but you care about shapes, colours and emotions. Someone asked her once what her artwork was about, and she just listed random things like ice cream, cakes, seaweed, shells and hats!
L.S Lowry
L. S. Lowry (Laurence Stephen Lowry) was born on 1st November 1887 in Stretford, Lancashire.
Lowry had an unhappy childhood. He wasn’t very popular at school, didn’t have a very close relationship with his parents, and he had few friends.
The Lowry family moved to the industrial town of Pendlebury in 1909. The landscape was dominated by textile mills and the chimneys of factories, and this imagery left its mark on the young L. S. Lowry.
Lowry had taken art classes as a child and he went to the Manchester School of Art and then Salford Royal Technical College.
In 1932, Lowry’s father died and he looked after to his mother. After his mother fell asleep, Lowry started to paint, often finishing at 3 a.m.
Lowry’s paintings often featured industrial Pendlebury and they captured scenes of life in industrial England. His landscapes are often populated by stylised ‘matchstick men’ figures.
Lowry didn’t complete many paintings of London. However, his 1960 painting of Piccadilly Circus sold for more than £5 million in 2011.
Some of his most famous works include: Industrial Landscape, going to the Match and Coming from the Mill, The Viaduct and The Football Match.
Lowry became an official war artist in 1943 and he was the Official Artist of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
Lowry was a massive fan of Manchester City Football Club just like Mr A!