Creative Arts

Creative Arts

We are a creative school that nurtures the children's creativity through teaching a broad art curriculum, through art competitions, and participation in the Arts Award Explore and Discover schemes. Children across the school also have the opportunity to work with a professional artist who comes in to teach every Monday afternoon. The children are also involved each year in city-wide art projects (e.g. The Smithfield Market design) and Arts Week. 

Music sessions are taught across the school using the Charanga music programme. Children learn to sing and play instruments which include percussion, glockenspiels and djembes. They also listen to a wide variety of music, and learn to read and write Music, and compose their own pieces. Keyboard and guitar lessons are also taught every week by teachers from Birmingham Music service, who also support children to achieve ABRSM Music Medals. Every term, all children perform in our Music concerts, to celebrate their musical achievements. 

The children have been working with our artist to create art displays based around their favourite books. 

Arts Week 2021

The children have enjoyed a range of creative activities this week, ranging from sculpture to printing. Many children have also had the opportunity to work with an Artists in Forest School. Take a look at their wonderful work below. I'm sure you'll agree that we have very imaginative and talented children in our school.

Singing at the Local Residential Home

Performance club attended the local residential home to sing some Christmas carols! They were brilliant and thoroughly enjoyed themselves - as did the residents! We hope to return in the Spring to show off some more of our fantastic singing!

Swing Band

The children from Reception, Year 1 and Year 3 were treated to a performance from the KES Outreach programme. Both children and staff thouroughly enjoyed the performance and children were highly engaged. The children commented:

"I liked the trumpet." 

"I liked the piano and I would like to play it one day." 

"The incredible music was nice."

"I like the tune when they were playing." 

"I liked it when they sang Merry Christmas." 

"I liked the voices when they were singing."

After School Art Club

Year 1 and Reception have enjoyed working with our artist in residence to explore different art forms this term.

Spanish

We have all been working really hard in our Spanish lessons! Year 6 have tasted a Paella, Year 4 have been learning about shapes, Year 3 have been learning about animals and using Spanish adjectives and Year 5 are learning all about food using Spanish menus! Keep up the good work!

Spanish Fun!

Year 3 have been making cubes to help create sentences to describe animals in Spanish! Well done children!

~Incredible art work across the school~

Spanish

We have been learning and experiencing the Spanish Catholic celebration 'Semana Santa.'Children made props and floats and paraded like the do in the Spanish streets.

 ¡Feliz Pascua! 

Spanish Club

Spanish club have enjoyed learning a variety of subjects through lots of fun, games, dancing and parties. To really embrace our subject and to experience real Spanish - we went on our trip to a Tapas restaurant in Grand Central Birmingham. The children ordered in Spanish and sampled lots of tapas including calameres (squid) and tortilla de patatas. (Spanish omelette)

Summer Concert 2017 

We had a great time at the Summer Concert. The children have made so much musical progress this year! Well done everyone!

Arts Week

Arts week has been inspired by our Sun Bear 'Lord Regent of the Forest'. Children entered creative competitions: design our sun bear; make and bake competition ( see twitter for the videos) and the library poster competition. Everyone had fun working on an arts project and the creativity extended to the forest school where sessions led by our forest school teachers were all about getting creative with natural resources. Our Cake sale raised £1000 for the Birmingham Children's Hospital.

Nature Mandalas

A small group of talented children in Year 4 and 5 are working towards their Arts Award Explore. The theme is 'Wild in Art'. Look at their amazing nature mandalas that they created in the Forest School!

We had a fantastic time at the Christmas concert! There was singing, and guitar and keyboard playing. Everyone was involved from Nursery to Year 6, even the staff! Looking forward to the Spring Concert already!

We had so much fun recording our CD ready for Christmas 2016! Every child in the school from Nursery to Year 6 was involved. Even the teachers sang a track! CDs can be purchased from the school or at the Christmas concert which will be on Monday 12th December and Tuesday 13th December. 

We are a creative school, we have many different musical lessons being taught every week by specialist teachers from the music service. Children across the school also have the opportunity to work with an artist who comes in to teach every Monday afternoon and all children in Key Stage 2 all learn Spanish, which is taught by Ms Holmes. 

Music is taught across the school by Mrs Dattani, children learn to play instruments which include percussion, glockenspiels and djembes. They also learn to sing songs from a wide variety of musical genres.