Welcome to the Creative Art's page

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

Year 3/4 The Tempest Performance 

This half term year 3/4 have been working incredibly hard on creating a Shakespeare performance. Over 30 children acted in the play and 30 dancers. Actors and dancers met regularly to develop and learn about their character and portrayal. 
The children performed 4 times to audiences and we were blown away with their performance all actors, dancers and singers were incredible. We look forward to developing the talent in these year groups and watching them shine.

Year 6 and choir Anti-bullying video

This week during anti-bullying week year 6, dancers and choir performed a piece based on one knod wornd and choosing respect. The children presentation skills were fantastic, and the dancing and singing brought some adults to tears. Hopefully we made the children think to make the right choices. I have loved working with the older children and their enthusiasm and keenness to share ideas.

Please look on the website to watch the video.

Year 5 Art Group Goose Fair

Year 5 are busy getting arty with learning different ways of representing the Goose fair they visited before the holiday. They are using different art mediums to see what techniques they like. They will create a final piece, choosing styles and techniques they like in the next few weeks.

Year 5 box display, our community 

Our year 5 display at NTU appeared in September. The children worked hard to create their faces in abstract and realistic ways. Together displayed with other schools they looked marvellous.

 Year 6- One kind word project

Year 6 have started a project based on this years theme for bullying week which is one kind word, we are looking at the different perspectives of the victim, the bully and those around. This week we began to explore these through words and drama. The children had many ideas they were bursting to share and they will take the lead on what they wish to prepare to share as a showcase learning experience for others.

  Exciting news- We have joined the RSC

We are really excited to share with you tat this year we have joined to work together with The Royal Shakespeare Company. Please see latest news for an update on this. We have already begun the work with year 5 this week. We are super keen to get started and the first text we will look at is The Tempest.

Anna Collette Hunt- Butterflies

In year 4 in art we have been look at butterflies, a few weeks ago we created the butterflies out of clay and these were taken away to be fired. Today she retuned with them all and the children painted on their designs. They will be now fired again before we create a display, we are very excited to see them and have loved working with a local ceramic artist. 

Year 6 Dance

Year 6 have begun rehearsals for this years play and are very excited to be performing High School Musical. I am currently working with a group dancing. They are thoroughly getting role at adding their own spin on ideas for their performances.

Year 4 A Kaleidoscope of butterflies

Year 4 have been using their artistic skills to create a Kaleidoscope of butterflies in the corridor. We used a watercolour wash and then drew the shapes of the butterflies, the children choose their own patterns to decorate their butterflies.

Shakespeare Year 5

Year 5 have spent some of their Tuesday afternoons delving into Shakespeare texts.

We have used the RSC pedagogies to look at two different texts Macbeth and The Tempest.

This has been a real eye opener for our children who have really enjoyed the challenge and themes of the texts. The children have explored characters and acted out parts of the texts to gain a deeper understanding of Shakespeare's work.

Year 6- Amazon Mantle of the expert

Year 6 have been exploring the Amazon with Zoe. Using mantle of the expert they looked at creating A media post about information they found. The children focused on research skills and the oracy looking at how they could present their information. They enjoyed the practical aspect and working with others.

Creative Collaboratives- Ancient Egypt Mantle of the expert.

Year 4 explore Ancient Egypt with Zoe over three sessions looking at exploring tombs and historical artefacts. The children enjoyed exploring History in a different way presenting the information they found out through, pictures and media presentations.

Creative Collaboratives Year 5- The Greeks Mantle of the expert

Year 5 created museum installations. These were on the topic of different areas about Greek. They explored meetings and discussions, using the coin system for debates and how different roles can be important to meetings.

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.

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.

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.