The development of children’s artistic and cultural awareness supports their imagination and creativity. It is important that children have regular opportunities to engage with the arts, enabling them to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials. The quality and variety of what children see, hear and participate in is crucial for developing their understanding, self-expression, vocabulary and ability to communicate through the arts. The frequency, repetition and depth of their experiences are fundamental to their progress in interpreting and appreciating what they hear, respond to and observe. 

Expressive Arts and Design 

ELG: Creating with Materials Children at the expected level of development will: 

- Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

- Share their creations, explaining the process they have used.

 - Make use of props and materials when role playing characters in narratives and stories. 

ELG: Being Imaginative and Expressive Children at the expected level of development will: 

- Invent, adapt and recount narratives and stories with peers and their teacher.

 - Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs.

- Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and – when appropriate – try to move in time with music. 

Term 6 - Going Places 

Space  - We are astronauts

We are creative!

Bodhi made a volcano and showed the children how it could erupt.

Pirate Flags & Pirate Father's Day Cards (Shhhh!)

Term 5 - Our Van Gogh Gallery

Poetry - Watching a Bumble Bee

POEM OF THE WEEK | WATCHING A BUMBLE BEE 🐝 Wes Magee 😊 Read by Miss Ellis 💛 #worldbeeday - YouTube 

Creative - Making a bumble bee

Vincent Van Gogh -Sunflowers

Observational Painting of a sunflower

D.T - Making a healthy fruit kebab for a snack.

We promote healthy eating at school. The children have been learning about different fruits. They cut up their own fruit and put it on a kebab stick. They enjoyed eating it at snack time. Encourage your child to chop up their food at home. This encourages them to try new foods.

Music  & D.T - Making a musical instrument

Daffodils 

Term 4 - Amazing Animals

Rabbits, Chicks & Hens - drawing, cutting and sticking skills

Easter Eggs - Marble Rolling to Create a Pattern Using Pastel Colours

Animal Head bands - Cutting shapes

Caterpillars

Frogs - Cutting shapes and colouring

Music - We're going on a Bear Hunt

Poetry Performance - My Pet Giraffe

Painting our favourite animals - Looking at colour and shape

Term 3

February 14th - Love Monster

Police Dog

Painting police cars and fire engines

D.T - Superhero Wands

We used our assembling skills to make wand.

Supertato - cutting out shapes

Superheroes - We turned ourselves into superheroes!

D.T Assembling 

We explore different different ways of fixing paper to card.

Superhero Masks

Art - Sculpture using Clay

The children made 'Morph' or a snow man by making shapes. They showed they could roll a ball (sphere) or sausage (Cylinder) shape. 

Term 2

Poetry Performance - Here It Comes!

Kandinsky

Mixing Primary colours with fingers to create circles in the style of Kandinsky.

Poetry Performance - Here It Comes by Matt Goodfellow

Christmas: Elf me

Jack and the Beanstalk - cutting & sticking different materials.

Transient Art in the style of Andy Goldsworthy

We made transient art (not fixed in one position) inspired by the artist Andy Goldsworthy.  The children were really creative.

The Three Bears - using a fork to create the texture for fur.

Printing Bonfire and Firework Pictures 

Creating Art in the style of Andy Goldsworthy

Term 1

Self-Portraits - Using skin tones paint.

Self-Portraits - Using pencil.

Funnybones - cutting and gluing skills

Music 

Star Words - beat, tempo, pitch, high, low, fast and slow

Exploring sound 

Children explore how they can use their voice and bodies to make sounds, experiment with tempo and dynamic when playing instruments, identify sounds in the environment and differentiate between them.

Grandparents' Day Cards - Finger painting

Gruffalo - paper craft

Owl Babies - Collage

Colouring

Encourage your child to colour in their bear at home. This helps pencil control for writing.