Welcome to the Creative Art's page

On here you will find out about all exciting projects involving the arts within school.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Year 3 and 4 have just put on an amazing show of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Dancers wowed us with their super moves, and actors learning their lines and bringing their characters to life.

Many children took part in the creative arts groups, preparing for the performance, learning new skills and gaining confidence. I am astonished at how well the kids performed and showed real dedication.

Year 5 have completed their 3D Goose fair model. They used various materials and techniques to create them.

F2 have had fun learning about dinosaurs with Zoe the time traveller. They have been looking at different dinosaurs and how they look, sound and feel. They have been putting sentences together to describe a dinosaur.

Year 4 creative arts group, have just completed their block on movement and dance linked to sound. Today they had the opportunity to work with their peers and teach both classes some of the skills they had learned. The creative leads lead all groups to success. High focus and concentration from all groups. Staff commented on the confidence increase and ability to lead a group effectively. Well done year 4.

Year 1 had an unexpected visitor today, Stick lady love. As part of our creative collaborative we are exploring mantle of the expert. Stick lady love has been looking for her husband. The children who are the experts have the job of finding stick man through exploration of geography. They were very excited to meet stick lady love today and help her on her journey over the next few weeks.

Year 6 have been studying sculpture for their curriculum driver. Henry Moore was the main artist. This has been linked to their work on world war two and evacuees. They have used inspiration From different techniques that Henry Moore used and have carefully looked at the work of Bill Brandt during World War II times, especially within the tube stations in London. The children created amazing sculptures some abstract or realistic.

Year 5 Creative arts group visited Goose Fair to look closely at the structures and design of the rides. They spent time taking photos and drawing the ride they are going to create and looked carefully at patterns. Finished of with some treats from the fair.

Year 4 have been using mantle of the expert to explore life as a refugee. They have been reading the book, boy at the back of the class, and have used this to lead and inspire some of the work. They have created Podcasts and adverts. Through being in role they have developed their imagination and experience of what life may be like. They shared their work with year 3 who were excited to take a peek into another world.

Year 2 have been blowing paint to create the flames of the fire of London.

Year 5 have been looking a the structure of 3 D buildings exploring different shapes and how they can be connected together.

Year 4 explored different shapes sand would make on a speaker. They looked at different movements and transitions.

Year 2 created the buildings in London and how the fire might of travelled through them through movement today they shared this later in the term with their year group.

Today the children used colour mixing and primary colours to create the great fire of London. They also made the Tudor houses from strips of black paper looking carefully at the shapes and styles of the houses.

NEW YEAR...NEW PROJECTS

This week we have come back keen to get started on lots of new exciting projects which have started this week.

This Autumn year 5 have an Arts Award group running which will link to Goose fair, We hope to visit Goose fair and bring the fair alive with our imaginations through art.

Year 4 are developing a project around sound, they are developing their focus, ideas and listening skills. They will run workshops for their year group at the end with the ideas they have developed.

Y2 will be doing a mixed project of art, drama and dance this will be based around The Great Fire of London.

LETS GET CREATIVE.....

Year 3/4 Performance Alice in Wonderland

This term years3 and 4 have been working incredibly hard on their performance of Alice in Wonderland.

A group of year 3/4 practiced hard to create their dance pieces incorporating their own ideas. Actors learnt lines and developed their acting style and expressions and singers put their kick into the songs.

An amazing job done by all.

Year 5 Project Goose Fair- Creative Collaboratives 

Year 5 were involved in a really exciting project working with Graham Elstone.

We were looking how to develop childrens' curiosity through creativity.

The children's were developing their own ideas about how to bring a 3D model to life through appearance and using sound scapes.

Very early on they looked at how to make 3D models and experimented with new materials. They also visited the fair to try and get a real sense of what they wanted it to be like.

They developed their ideas through pictures and creating designs and then they played with materials to achievev the affect they wanted. They explored the sounds they had heard and could hear and then worked with Graham to do this. Finally they created the display together using their ideas and choices.

Year 2 Lakeside project the singing mermaid

A group of year 2 helped to create a piece of coral for the set of the singing mermaid, it was made out of Different recyclable  materials. They had a go at creating their own ideas at first. Then they all had a go at creating a sea creature. The piece combined different skills of layering and the result was amazing.

It was then displayed at Lakeside.

Creative Collaboratives Year 5

Year 5 worked on a project with Graham Elstone designing Viking shields which told a story through sound.

The children enjoyed working together and developing new skills and taking risks. They got to use new materials.

Year 4 Boy at the back of the class

The year 4 creative arts group have been waiting to perform their Boy at the back of the class.

Today they performed to their year group. The children were amazed at the performance. They managed to convey the story through dance and brought tears to the adults eyes. Well done for a brilliant performance.

Year 1 Creative arts group

The group today performed what they had been learning about London. They created still images of important places in London; London Bridge;London Eye;Buckingham Palace and Big Ben.

They got on the big double decker bus and travelled around as Paddington Bear. They also performed a dance using umbrellas as props to Singing in the rain. They did brilliantly and shall perform to F2 tomorrow.

Art Week

This week we are having our Jubilee art week, lots of different areas and British artists are being covered across the school. Year groups have paired up to make some super pieces together. Year 6 and 4 have been studying Banksy. Year 3 and one have being looking at pop art and Peter Blake.

Year 2 and 5 have been looking at costume design and the work of Vivian Westwood.

Here are a few sample pictures of the work so far.

Year 1 project- London

Today I started a new and exciting project with a year 1 group. They are currently finding all about Paddingtons bear adventure to London. We did lots of getting to know you activities and begun our teamwork tasks. We also began to create some still images of the places in London Paddington may visit.

The Great Big Dance off

Today the year 6 dance group attended the Great big dance off at the Nottingham Royal albert Hall.

The children were really excited and nervous. We had the opportunity to watch secondary schools also which the children loved. 

Our children performed brilliantly, they gave it their all and we were incredibly proud of them. They showed great teamwork and support for one another. They all can't wait to dance again.

Charlie and the Chocolate factory

Today we looked at emotions and created our Oompa Loompa moves. We put this together and created a movement piece.

Charlie and the Chocolate factory year 3

This week we have started a new and exciting project. Year 3/4 are going to create a performance of 

Charlie and the Chocolate factory.

Year 3 Creative arts group are going to create some of the dance movement pieces.

Today we began by exploring the story and characters and put ourselves into the roles of the characters.

We also listened to some of the music and created a sound scape attached. We have begun to create our first movement piece, the children explored using their own movements.

Year 4 performances

Year 4 have been doing lots of different performances this week to different groups they finished with a performances to parents. They did brilliantly and worked as a team. Below are clips from the dance. They all shared after how much they loved doing it and how it helped them feel more confident in themselves.

Year 2- Van Goh project

Today we have completed our scene for the Lakeside using Van Goh as an inspiration. 

We also had the opportunity to begin our final Van Goh art work. We each choose a landscape from 

pictures and developed our own ideas using a night sky inspired by starry starry night or a day scene.The  children are independently using the techniques they have used. They will complete this next week.

Year 2- Van Goh

Today we explored Van Goh, we looked at the type of art he did and about the artist. We spoke about colour and reminded ourselves of primary and secondary and began to explore tints which we used in our work today. We looked at how he created his skies and had ago using water colouring and lots of water to make it glide.

Year 4 dance

Today we created our own piece in pairs we looked at mirroring and martial arts move. We explored how the dragons may move and we also showed what special things we could do.

How to train your dragon- year 4 group

 Today we began a new project with a group in year 4. We are creating a piece about dragons using dance and movement. The group today looked at working as a team and how to create dance phrases. they worked in small groups. We worked together to start the story that we wanted to tell about the dragons.

Greek Mask Sketching

This week with year 5 we have been looking and exploring different types of pencils. We then looked at pictures of different greek masks and discussed how expressions were over exaggerated.

We then had a guided drawing session which we will complete next week with shading and independent sketching and shading.

Gingerbread man project- Lakeside-year 1 group

This week I introduced the children to the story of The gingerbread man. The children joined in on the repeated phrases, next week we hope to bring it to life. We then created salt dough gingerbread men which will be individually decorated by the children and added to our display for the art gallery piece. We then through guided drawing drew a gingerbread man which we are going to try independently and develop our own style for decoration.

New year, new projects

This year we are very excited to be starting our new projects.

We are going to be working with 3 different year groups.

Year 4 are going to start an exciting dance project.

Year 5 will be working towards the arts award on an art project, involving creating 3D sculptures.

Year 2 and KS1 will be getting involved with an exciting project linked to Lakeside based on a new version of The gingerbread man. They will be involved in workshop, and creating artwork to be displayed at Lakeside.

Graffiti artist visit 

Today year had a visit from graffiti artist James Mayle Imageskool- who gave the children the opportunity to create their own piece of street art using spray paint and graffiti pens. The children loved it and enjoyed exploring different materials. All the children’s final pieces were so different and varied. Great job year 5.

Year 5 Graffiti project

The arts award group in year 5 have been designing their ideas for a large mural representing Southglade school.they came up with some super ideas, See below.

We then asked Mick to create a large frame and stapled fabric to it. The children took it in turns to draw out parts of the final design we agreed on.we then used acrylics to paint it and outline in black markers. Some children also created their own smaller canvas of their Southglade mural.

Aidy the Awesome

Today years 3 and 4 watched The Gramphone Theatre, performing online Aidy the Awesome. The children really enjoyed the show which was about finding your own super hero power within.

We were very lucky as the shows producer and director Hannah and Becky came in after to work with the children and get some feedback. Please see the video below they created.

Here is some of the children’s feedback.

• I loved how it was funny and granny danced all the time
• I was kind of surprised how the granny danced, surprised because someone so old can dance like that (lol)
• I liked it because all the actors knew what they were doing and it was pretty funny 
• I liked it because it was about good and evil 
• I liked how they had string behind them to help them fly 
• I liked the music because its Rockstar music and it fit in with what was happening in the scene 

ED

Grandpa’s Great Escape

We have started an exciting new project with year four. We are exploring the book Grandpa’s great escape by David Walliams. So far we have immersed ourselves into the book by reading chapters and exploring the characters. We have used different drama tools to explore deeper into the characters life’s. We have used role on the wall, hot seating, conscience tunnel, still images, improvisation, small role-play, still images and thought tracking. The children have been practicing filming short clips due to current circumstances. We have also created a small trailer using green screen which we hope to use more. Next week we will be exploring all key moments and putting a timeline together we’re we hope to create a script and create a bite size edition, the children are really looking forward to do this.

Shine a light project 

This term we had the opportunity to join in a project with Shamila Chaddy. The key workers in year 4 and 5 were fortunate to take part in the project. The children spent a day making a lantern with florist wire, it was highly challenging but also a lot of fun and all children showed perseverance and resilience. We then took park in a virtual workshop based around cultural identity, within this the children created silhouettes which represented their lives and cultural heritage. The lanterns were lit up and were shared with their adults. 

Arts award year 5

A group of 12 year 5 pupils have just begun their Arts award journey. This project will be focused around street art with an emphasis on looking at Banksy. This was inspired through Banksy ‘s recent addition to his work in Nottingham. We will also look at other graffiti artists such as Pinklady and other types of graffiti, snow graffiti. We will be looking at the techniques used and trying out the different styles before the children create their own piece. 

Celebrating Diwali 
 

The children in Foundation and KS1 were very excited to find out all about Diwali. They created different types of lanterns and to brighten the community up we hung these on the fence for the community to share.The parents and children loved looking and sharing their work and knowledge.

Shine a light

We are delighted to be involved with Ruth Lewis Jones who will be working with year 5 on this project. They will be creating lanterns which will be covered in silhouettes retreating things which are important to them in their culture. The staff have currently been trained to teach the children how to create these lanterns and are keen to get creating with the children. Pictures to follow in spring one of this exciting project.

ARTS AWARD

I am so excited to get started doing creative arts again. To start it is going to look quite different. Therefore we have started with year 2. These children are going to be working on the ARTS AWARD. We will be creating portfolios with the children's work in. They will find out about the different arts, study an artist and then share their work with their class. We are very excited to get started and will post some work.

New project for all- Elefriends

How are we all? Here is an new creative project for you all to get involved in. I would love it if you shared your work with me just send to my email address or your class teacher, with creative arts projects as email heading.

You can draw with hands or paper. This fits in wonderfully with our empathy week.

https://www.treehuggery.co.uk/elefriends?fbclid=IwAR2tRJrOvGdzjrSgur0O5ifJfNK3CznwPPsQ2PIxbrsT3grzLBZg1qyqyF8

Year 3 and 5 exciting Lakeside project- Undiscovered  island

We have some really exciting news we have teamed up with Lakeside to start a new project, which can be done remotely at home. The work the children complete will be sent to a theatre company who hope to create a play with the children's ideas. Which they will go and watch perform next year, if we have enough participation. I have attached all the documents and work can be sent to me or your class teachers. I think it would be amazing for so many of you to get involved. we would love to take you to the theatre.

Scavenger hunt art

This week get searching in your garden, or on your daily walk for fallen flowers, twigs, leaves.

See if you can make an insect, a butterfly 🦋 perhaps or go one step further and create a picture, see one we made a home together.

Weekly creative challenge

This week we are making paper flowers you can make these out of any patterned paper.

Follow the link for instructions, I look forward to seeing some.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XQuFKou4cGA&feature=youtu.be

Creative arts challenges

Hi everyone, I'm missing you all. While off I thought we could start doing some creative challenges. Last week I sent the big dance challenge, which I just about managed to complete with a lot of practice. Would love to teach you it when we go back.

I also sent a worry dolls challenge and below you can see a brilliant one which has been completed. I will send one each week. Please get involved if you would like.

Mrs Dowse

Dress Rehearsal

Despite being a few members down we performed at dress rehearsal to KS1 today and the children did brilliantly. Enthusiastic and helping each other out. Here is the link to the video.

https://southglade.primarysite.media/media/into-the-unknow-creative-arts-performance

We cant wait to perform it when we are all back together as a team. 

Year 4 Creative arts

We worked in a small group today looking at ' colours of the wind,' and the beauty of the Earth. We created movement and worked together as a team to begin to perform a sequence, toward the end we explored how we could use ribbons in our performance.

Year 4 creative arts

The children wished to explore spirt, this was an idea given by a child who had recently been to se Frozen 2. We had used the song 'Into the unknown, ' in the warm up and the children were very enthusiastic about it. The child spoke how the elements like sky/Earth and water were liked together and the spirt element was the magical element. Therefore we started to put together some choreography for this song.

Year 4 creative arts

This week we have been exploring different techniques in dance and exploring what the children can do. We wrote poems entitled shine and began to work on our first song, circle of life, which is going to represent the sun rises over the Earth. We looked at stillness and synchronised steps.

The main think we looked at was working as a team to help with timing.

Year 4 Creative arts group

I am currently working with year 4 children. We began the block by discussing their topic 'up, up and away.' We came up with lots of ideas and started to explore things in the sky which shine, the sun the stars and then other things such as the sea. the children made a connection of the sky earth and water and wanted to base their performance around this. So we listened to different pieces of music and settled on different tracks which suited the piece and so happen all to be Disney.

Year 6 WW2 performance

Today, year 6 during Rememberance week got to perform their WW2 piece. Which was a mixture of drama and dance. Styles from the time such as swing where they improvised their own pieces. We also used contemporary music to show emotion of wanting to leave and how upsetting it is when members of the family during WW2 had to leave. Use of still images and mimes brought the piece alive and let the audience get involved with the piece.

It was a super performance and they brought lots of watchers to a few tears. Well done year 6.

Art work at Lakeside

At the end of last year, year 4 now 5 had an artist visit to create some prints. These prints were based on things that could fly. They were turned into a huge print with other schools and next week this will be displayed at the Lakeside arts exhibition.

We were also asked to create some art work for a display board and the children who were involved in the printing this week created some new artwork based on things that could fly.

They used a watercolour wash and then pencil drew an insect followed by ink. As you can see from the pictures they came out beautifully.

The children have been invited along with parents to see the display of their work next week.

Year 6 project

We are a couple of weeks in and really enjoying getting stuck into our new project, we have been creating dances and having drama sessions based around emotions.

In drama we have been creating still images and short silent pieces how the war effected families.

We have then been trying to potray these emotions through our dance.

We have just began to look at diferent styles of dance and having a lot of fun trying the style of swing.

New term new projects

Last year finished with a bang with year 6 celebrating their time at Southglade, they performed dances, song and poems to such a high standard.

New year new year 6, we are about to start a new project with year 6, they soon will be learning all about WW2 and Evacuees, their current project is going to be based around this.

We are hoping to create a dance and drama piece around the family looking at how each person played a role and how emotionally it may of affected them.

Hopefully we may take this piece out to other schools. I am really excited to see what we can create.

Summer 2

We are buisly getting involved in lots of thing this half term. Year 6 are getting ready for leavers assembly and we are preparing some performances- with a whole year 6 performance. Year 5 dancers are finalising their dance to perform during judging at Southglade's got talent. (Not an act.)  Year 4 and 6 children have been helping with the yarn bombing and children have been buisly creating wonderful work on our Southglade tree.  I have more exciting projects in mind for the rest of this term so keep your eyes peeled.

Bestwood Cultural week

Next week is Bestwood cultural week. Our school is involved and we have been getting ready to decorate our fence- yarn bomb.

The children have been buisly creating pom pom after pom pom.

We have also created the Southglade tree which we hope to cover in pom poms.

Children shall be doing art during this week based around our tree. I look forward to posting some pictures from the different year groups next week. Here's a sneak peek at our tree- not complete yet. Lets just hope it survives the weather.

Year 6 Samba

Year six spent two afternoons creating a samba dance and then performing to each other they did a fantastic job. They learned some samba moves and then put it together to create a dance. It was lots of fun and they showed so much energy and enthusiam. See link.

Year 1 country collages

Year 1 have been creating countryside collages with different material. They worked in pairs and created some super pictures.

Bestwood arts festival

A group of year 4's have started weaving ready to decorate the front of the school for arts week.

Year 1 Creative arts assembly

On Tuesday 2nd April the year 1's performed to KS1 and parents. They showed their art work and hats. They they recited some of the poems they had learnt from the book, 'Commotion in the Ocean.'

They then performed a dance and some of the children showed there amazing gymnastic skills. They all did so well and were so brave. We are all very proud of them.

Year 3 Iron man art

I have been working with the year 3's who are currently reading The Iron Man by Ted Hughes.

As part of their art work they have been drawing and creating pictures of the iron man. We have been using Charcoal as a medium which is very messy but fun and the children produced some brilliant results.

Under the sea assembly

Next week the year 1 creative art pupils will be performing in assembly to their parents. We are all very excited and looking forward to sharing what we have done in this time.

Future projects

We are looking forward to taking part in Bestwood culture festival and an art exhibition during the summer term. I have lots of ideas for new projects I look forward to getting started on these, with the children during spring and summer term..

World book day

For world book day we ran 3 different workshops across the phase groups. The workshop focused on drama. Year 1/2 look at the books of Julia Donaldson, focusing on.' The Gruffalo.' and new adjectives. They created new chants which they performed to the group.

But who is this creature with sharp claws
And dirty teeth in his pointy jaws?
He has wobbly knees, and dusty toes,
And a dirty wart at the end of his nose.
His eyes are googly, his tongue is yucky ,
He has soft prickles all over his back.

Year 3/4 looked at Roald Dahl. They focused on, 'George's Marvellous Medicine.'

We looked at the characterisation of Grandma and George and created small scenes which they performed- Wow there were some amazing performances.

Year 5/6 looked at books by David Walliams, focusing on, The w

Worlds Worst Children. We looked at the worst behaved class and the worst people to meet using improvisation. Then in groups we created a new 'World's worst child,' and the other children had to guess what characteristic the child had.

The children and myself had a highly enjoyable day and was great to see so many children at ease and confidently putting themselves forward to share ideas and perform.

Year 1 creative arts

I have just started a new project with 20 amazing year 1's. The topic is based on their class learning- Under the sea. We are using their class book as an inspiration, 'Commotion in the ocean.' So far we have created a porthole of what we might see under the sea.

We are currently working on a dance and can't wait to see the results when we put it all together and perform for assembly.

Year 6 dancers

We were very lucky to take part in a dance showcase at Ellis Guilford. Year 6 dancing group decided they would like to re - dance, "This is me," from The Greatest Showman- such an empowering song.

We had a couple of rehearsals and added some new parts to the dance. The children performed brilliantly on the evening. Please look at the video resource centre to see their dance.

Art workshops for year 5's

During the last week of term I worked with each year 5 class creating their own mini space master piece. We had a super afternoon and we looked closely at how we could improve our work using peer and teacher critique. The children acted on this advice and created their space art. See Year 5 blog Spring 1. (See below)

Year 5 Art compositions- space

The childrens final project was to create their own composition with the skills they had learnt. They all did a marvellous job and created some amazing pieces of art. To these they added their portrait which they turned into an astronaut looking out into space.

These are now on display in the classrooms and hall.

Creative arts- Year 5

A group of children from year 5 are currently working on an art project. Their focus is Space which links with their topic this term.

The children have been exploring light and dark and use of oil pastels. We have been looking at how to make pictures look 3D how to create texture and depth to a picture.

The children are currently creating a composition using the new skills they have been taught.

They will then be teaching their year group and creating huge pieces of art work. Their role will be to teach their peers what they have learnt. I look forward to posting pictures of this.

Creative Arts at Southglade

Contemporary Dance

Mrs Dowse has been working with the year 6 creative arts group over the last half term. Their focus has been on contemporary dance- this is a style which is a mixture of ballet and modern dance using pieces of music to tell the background story.

The piece focused on anti-bullying and was performed during anti-bullying week- not only to their own school but to Parkvale School and to Robin Hood School.

The children took part in weekly dance sessions where they created the contemporary dance alongside Mrs Dowse.