We would love to know about all the exciting Arts activities that classes will be taking part in this half term. At our meeting today we have put together a survey for each class to share what they will be doing. Watch this space for a summary of results. Can't wait to hear about all the exciting learning taking place!

At today's arts council meeting we have discussed lots of exciting ideas and events that we would like to organise this year. The first job this half term is for us to find out from our classmates what kind of exciting arts activities they would like to take part in. We also quite like the idea of a whole school doodle competition as it has never been done here before. Just to give a bit of an update. Mrs Longden has submitted our Arts Mark case study and we are now just waiting for the repsonse. Fingers crossed.

The Arts Council are very pleased to announce that all the current Year 6 pupils have successfully achieved Arts Award Explore. There will be a special assembly soon where children will recieve their certificates. The children worked with artist Louise Wright to complete a commisioned piece. Well done guys!

The Arts Council would just like to say a huge well done to everyone for putting up such amazing work at the Summer Fayre. The interfaith artwork was amazing. Well done everyone. Have a  look at the photos on the gallery. Wow!

During today's Arts Council we have made some exciting plans for Arts Week 2018. Mrs Longden is making arrangements for Peter Swidrak to bring an exhibition of portraits to school. Our Key Stage 1 children had the brilliant idea of setting up an art gallery. We thought it would be great for other year groups to do this too. As the World Cup is just around the corner we thought each class could chose a World Cup country and find out about an artist from their country. Members of the Arts Council are going to collect more ideas from their class mates.  We might also ask Mrs Allen to plan in some dance, drama and music into this year's Interfaith and Philosophy Week. So watch this space for more brilliant ideas.

After thoroughly enjoying the performance by Kinetic Theatre as part of Science Week The Arts Council collected feedback from their classes. It was reported that the children and grown-ups in school thoroughly enjoyed the performance. The acting was really good and the action was fast paced. Of course we learnt lots about science too!
The Arts Council are currently talking to their classmates and collecting ideas for this year's Arts Week.

Miss Garratt presented an assembly today all about mutual respect and tolerance for other people. These are very important British values. Mrs Longden set the Arts Council a challenge to see if we could find any evidence in school to show that our school thinks these values are important. WOW! We found loads of evidence and lots of it was very arty and creative. We found art work from Interfaith week. Creative wiriting D&T work and information all about Chinese new year - Alan and Ben's mum kindly provided us with some authentic Chinese decorations. We found lots of evidence of classes celebrating other languages. There was artwork inspired by other cultures. We spotted classes learning about music from around the world. We found work in classes celebrating why children at our school are special and what makes them different. When we spotted examples of thes values we tagged them with a label. Keep your eyes peeled around school. We had fun and talked to the children in our classes about what we found out.

Following on from the huge success of last terms Artwork from Home Gallery we would like to introduce the new themes. So if you fancy getting creative and displaying your artwork on our Galley in the hall please hand in your masterpieces. Please place any completed artwork in the box in Reception and children from the Arts Council will update the display. Don't forget to add your name and class.
 
Themes to base your art work on

Theme 1
to be handed in Friday March  16th
Easter - depict part of the Easter story, draw an Easter egg or design an Easter card. The choice is yours

Theme 2
to be handed in Friday 23rd March
Nature and Woodland – As Spring is beginning to arrive why not create artwork based on plants or animals.

Easter Holidays

Theme 3
to be handed in Friday 13th April
Mythical Creatures – you could draw your favourite creature from a story such as the Gruffalo, hydra or Minotaur. If you are feeling really creative how about designing your own crazy creature.

Theme 4
to be handed in Friday 20th April
COLOURFUL – so long as its bright and colourful the choice is yours

Theme 5
to be handed in Friday 27th April
Special places your house, classroom, favourite holiday destination, garden, fantasy settings, imagined other worlds

Theme  6
to be handed in Friday 4th May
Portraits Why not have a go at a self-portrait? Or maybe paint your best friend or a family member. How about someone famous? The queen, Simon Cowell, Theresa May – the choice is yours!
 

Good luck!

 The Arts Council met this week to judge the winners of the Christmas Art Competition. Well done to Dom and Lola-Mai who were chosen as our two winners. Thank you to the children who entered - there were lots and the standard of the art work was brilliant.

DRAMA CHALLENGE: The whole school is getting really excited about this afternoon's performance of sleeping beauty. the Arts Council have set a challenge for each class to try out a drama activity linked to the story. Your challenge may involve hot-seating a character, creating a tableaux of a scene, re-enacting a bit or even putting on your own mini panto. We can't wait to hear how you get on. Drama rocks!