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Continuing with our Islamic Art, this week Year 3/4 continued their exploring of geometric motifs.  Using instructions provided, the children had a go at using a compass, set square and a ruler to produce their five or seven circle motif.  Although using a compass was certainly a tricky challenge, a huge well done for showing such incredible resilience. The final pieces produced were beautiful 🤩 

In History, we have been learning about Ancient Civilisations. This week we had to understand some of the notable achievements of the Sumer Civilisation and explain how they influence history.  As a class we held our own Sumerian Inventors Fair. The children each created their own Sumerian artefact using clay that would have been a new invention during the Sumerian Civilisation.  These objects consisted of: A Cuniform writing tablet A wheel A sundial  A plough Once we had completed our artefacts, the children presented their items to the group explained why they believed their item was most significant. 

This afternoon, year 3 and 4 were introduced to Islamic Art. We discussed the significant qualities and intentions of Islamic Art. The children had time to explore  geometric shapes, tessellating patterns and motifs more closely by using a range of 2-D geometric shapes to make symmetrical and repeating patterns.  After exploration, the children took to their sketchbooks to create their own patterns. We analysed each others work and discussed the use of symmetry and they ways we had made our shapes tessellate.