Arts

'The Arts'

The expressive arts enrich all areas of the curriculum, teaches children to be resourceful and imaginative and provides other ways for children to express their ideas and learning.

Our art curriculum engages, inspires and challenges pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to explore making their own pieces of art, craft and design. The children are given the opportunity to explore using a wide range of tools and techniques and to appreciate the different ways that Art is used to express and challenge.

The national curriculum for art and design aims to ensure that all pupils:

• produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences
• become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques
• evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design
• know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms

Music

At Silver Springs, our children enjoy listening to a wide range of music. They join in with singing and listen to music as part of our daily collective worship. The children are given the opportunity to explore playing musical instruments as a class group and they are instilled with a love of music and an appreciation for the skill involved in learning how to play a musical instrument.

The national curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:

• perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range genres
• learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately
• understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the interrelated dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, and structure

Dance and Drama

Although not outlined as discrete subjects in the national curriculum, we use Dance and Drama within the teaching and learning of other subjects.

Dance is primarily covered within PE, where the children learn about different ways to move their bodies, perform dances using simple movement patterns and compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.

Drama is used in both PDMU lessons and English lessons, to help the children to explore different character roles, and to practise reading dialogue aloud. They also learn to work as a team during Dance and Drama activities, building both confidence and strong working relationships.

Some of the above information has been taken from the national curriculum online. These resources and further information can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum