Showcasing creativity for the Bedford Park Festival

Headteacher Sally Daniell with some of the art work

A display of art and crafts from over 200 children of Chiswick & Bedford Park Preparatory School was part of the Bedford Park Festival.

The children had been busy for weeks, painting, stitching and modelling as well as showing off marvellous examples of millinery skills in their Mad Hatter hats.

They used inspiration from the school subjects across the curriculum as well as school trips, ranging from a visit to the Canal Museum, to the Chihuly Glass sculptures at Kew Gardens. Science, geography, English, and Maths were all used as a basis for their creativity.

The eye catching colours of a science mural, depicting the life cycle of a flower, was one of the star attractions of the show and was inspired by a chromatography experiment.

Nursery classes created a velvet blue ocean teeming with mystical sea creature and shoals of exotic fish.

Year Three children and staff used the Chihuly Glass Sculpture exhibition at Kew Gardens to recreate their own versions of hanging glass, using everyday objects such as coffee filter paper painted with Sharpies. Andersen shelters were also on display, inspired by a history lesson on the Second World War.

Year Two had visited the Canal Museum and painted mugs with their designs and some had also used their sewing skills to make very fetching patchwork waistcoats. Year Four sewed sailing boats on a blue sea.

The Victorian Houses were made by Form Five, with details and designs of a high standard.

Year Six, in preparation for their annual Mad Hatter's Tea Party had gone to town with a collection of eye-catching hats.

English classes had inspired the Senses Books of Year Six. During the autumn term the pupils had searched in their novels for passages that reflected the five senses. They then copied an appropriate passage and illustrated it. Those illustrations relating to 'smell' released aromas ranging from spices to perfumes.

Headteacher Sally Daniell commented; "It wonderful to showcase the art in school and the high standards achieved by the children. I'd also like to pay tribute to the wonderful diligent and inspirational staff. This exhibition shows how much we value art as part of the curriculum."

Geometry lessons inspired the above optical illusion art

Mad Hatters (above) while below, a Lion from the Senses book shows the use of texture

Mugs painted after a visit to the Canal Museum with waistcoats in the background

A display of the Senses books

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June 23, 2019