Design Logo in Art

Over the past few weeks, 7sh have been designing logos in art. We first had to find the design process and then make a plan of things that we like or facts about us.

 When finished, we had to draw about a few sketch ideas in black and white.  After we had decided what we were doing, we drew it on google drawings, saved it as a j.peg, and turned it into a stencil on Photo Shop.

I couldn't get on to photoshop so I had to turn it into a stencil on google Drawings

This was my logo...

Mosaic Art History

Mosaics have a long history starting in Mesopotamian in the 3rd millennium BC

What is Mosaic Art?
Mosaic is a form of art that is similar to collage in the fact that it is putting different materials together to make a picture or pattern. These materials are often tiles, types of rocks or pebbles.

When was Mosaic introduced?
Mosaics have been around for about 4000 years starting with the use of terracotta cones pushed point-first into a background for a bit of decoration. It was first introduced in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium By the eighth century BC people started using different coloured pebbles and stones to make patterns. It was the Greeks in the fourth century BC that raised the use of Pebble Pavements as an art form. By 200 BC, people started using tesserae to make a more colour detailed effect to there art. They used tesserae that were sometimes smaller then a millimetre to make replicas of paintings.

The expansion of the Roman Empire took Mosaics to the next level. If you compare Mosaics from Roman Britain and Italian you can tell that the British examples are simpler and had less technique. Roman subjects were scenes celebrating their gods as well as domestic themes and geometric designs.

Who made the first Mosaic?
The Greeks. They elevated pebble mosaic to an art of great refinement, and created the "Tesserae Technique"

Gymnastics

This week in P.E, we did Gymnastics. There was a load of equipment set up like low beams, high beams, trampolines, single and double bars and more. 

The first thing was learning how to hold our selves up using just our hands which then turned into a headstand. 

We then learnt how to do forward rolls and cartwheels. My first attempt at a forward roll wasn't very good but it got better.

After that we had free time to use the beams, single and double bars and the mat we used for learning cartwheels and forward rolls.

Jump Jam 2016 Competiton

Today, the year 7 students had the 2016 Jump Jam competition in the gymnasium. We had an introduction, then two songs for the warm up, our competition song and then finals. Our class 7mg's song for the competition was "I gotta feeling" 

The two warm up songs were "Boom Boom Pow" and "I gotta feeling" and our finals song was ALSO "Boom Boom Pow" 

Two people from each class got a chocolate for outstanding performance. The two people from our class were Jireh and Dylan.

Our class 7mg won! 7rc was second and 7bk was third. Our class won a trophy for our performance.

Beep Test

For PE today, we did the 20 meter Beep Test. The beep test is where you have to run from one place to another repeatedly before you hear the beep. This is to test your fitness level/ how fit you are. If you don't get to your destination before the beep goes off you are out and you check the charts too see how fit you are. There was a results table for boys and girls, plus all different year levels. The fitness levels were 

• very poor
• poor
• average
• good
• very good
• excellence 

My score was 28 which was still under the poor fitness level. Only two people (Dylan and Mathew) managed to get average because there scores were around . I managed to almost get to the very end of level 3.

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