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!