Art is a vital part of every child’s education at Horfield Church of England Primary School and it has a significant and valuable role in the curriculum. We aim to provide an Art curriculum which enables all children to reach great heights whilst appreciating and understanding our vibrant and creative city - and world that we live in. As part of The Linking Schools project, we have been thinking about who we are as people and celebrating our similarities and differences - with each other and with our linking school. Our art topic for the term was Portraiture and we learnt about its important place in our history. We looked at the portraits and self-portraits of artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Frida Kahlo and Johannes Vermeer. After learning about the basic proportions of the human face we moved on to look at our own faces, starting to create self-portraits, trying to capture our own unique features – and realised how difficult this was! Building on our drawing skills knowledge from last term – shading, line and tone, – we then added these to our self -portraits. We also looked at the work of Sandra Silberzweig, a contemporary artist who lives in Canada whose art is fun and colourful. She inspired us to create our own abstract self portraits using line, colour and pattern to try to capture our own personalities and unique characteristics in our art.