Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Tuesday 7th July
Date: 3rd Jul 2020 @ 12:32pm
Hello Team Goldfinch,
I am really looking forward to seeing you pop into the school car park today to pick up your next packs and reports and most of all to have a chat. You can pop in between 9-11.30 am. See you soon!
Storytime: Mrs Elson reading Silly Billy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnUdvdAfS_k
Discussion: Today is a chance to discuss your thoughts about moving to Skylarks class in September.
School Jobs:
Science: Continue to learn about changing state using the links on the Home School Weekly Plan then choose an experiment from the attached files.
Message from Mrs Powell
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 alseep, 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!
