Welcome to the 2017 Creative Arts blog!

As some of you may already be aware, I am teaching Creative Arts across the school this term whilst Mrs Zadow is on leave.  I am so enjoying getting to know all of the students during our lessons.  Creative Arts covers the five different subjects of visual arts, media arts, drama, dance, and music.

At the moment, the Beginning Learning Community are focussing on music.  We have been finding the beat in songs and in everyday items such as a ticking clock.  We move to different types and beats of music, sing and play instruments to music.  Some students have even written and share their own body percussion tunes!  Finding beats also helps develop an understanding of syllables in words.  You could try all of this at home!

The Junior Learning Community are focussing on drama skills and performing in front of others as part of there inquiry into challenges and risks.  Here we are identifying emotions using facial and whole body expressions.

There was so much discussion and vocabulary!

 

The Middle Learning Community are also having a drama focus, learning about, creating and critiquing tableaus.  There is a lot of group work, problem solving and imagination in these tasks.  Stay tuned for some images of the tableaus – see if you can discover their stories!  We will also extend their understanding of role and situation as they offer, accept and extend their ideas in improvisation.

The Senior Learning Community are exploring the media arts through selfies.  We have defined what a selfie, self portraits and portraits are, how these have/have not changed over time, and the purpose of them.  In the images below, we are sorting and critically analysing a range of “selfies” from now and the past, using terms such as composition, lighting, mood, perspective etc, as well as the intent and the messages it conveys.  This will eventually lead us into creating our own selfie using a range of photographic software.