Week 5 (WB 1st June)

Please try to complete at least two of the tasks below to a high standard and email them to your teachers using the year group emails: y5@njsch.uk or y6@njsch.uk.

Task 1 - Research a famous landscape artist

We are very lucky here at NJS to be surrounded by beautiful countryside. Therefore this week, tasks 1 and 2 will focus on landscape art.

For this task, we would like you to research a famous landscape artist. Find out about their life, their work and the inspiration for their art. If you can, include examples of their work. You can choose how to present this work. For example, you could write an information text with subheadings, create a mind map including facts and images or produce a PowerPoint. It's up to you!

Here are some artists that you might choose from and an example of their work. You can however, select your own.


Vincent Van Gogh

Claude Monet

David Hockney

John Constable

Task 2 - Create a landscape of the local area

For this task, we would like you to select one of the photographs of the area surrounding NJS and create a landscape picture using a medium of your choice (pencil crayons, paint, pastel).

It is up to you which artistic style you choose for you picture. You may decide to create a realistic image in the style of John Constable. Or, if you are feeling creative, you could create a more impressionistic piece like Hockney using more vibrant or unnatural colours and shapes.

You can leave the fence out of the image if you wish as this may produce a better result.

Task 3 - What was NJS like in the past?

Did you know that Norton Junior School opened just under one hundred years ago?! However, it was a very different place than it is today.

We would like you to find out what life was like for primary school children in the 1930s and 1940s. You can present this research as you wish (information text, PowerPoint, mind map). Try to include images in your work.

Here are some areas that you may want to research:

  • Lessons

  • Experiences of boys and girls

  • School dinners

  • School buildings

  • Classrooms

  • Playtime

Task 4 - A day in the life of a 1930s/1940s school pupil

Now you have found out what primary school was like in the 1930s and 1940s, we would like you to put yourself into the shoes of a school pupil at that time.

Write a diary entry describing a day in the life of a 1930s/40s school pupil. Include information about your uniform, games you played, teachers and lessons.

Remember the features of a diary:

  • Past tense

  • Chronological order

  • First person

  • Feelings and emotions

  • Informal/chatty style

Task 5 - Create a map of the local area

It's time to develop your geography skills! We would like you to create an accurate map of the local area including map symbols to mark specific locations.

You may decide to just focus on Norton, Campsall or a larger area. Use the Google Earth link below to find a satellite image of the locality. Then draw this as a map with map symbols like the examples below.

Google Earth link: