. At Springfield, we believe in the power of Arts & Culture and the impact this can have on our students. Whether this is learning to express ourselves, collaborating with each other or developing new skills, Our focus is to ensure our pupils have the opportunity to learn in and through the arts while developing the life-longs skills to succeed and develop cultural capital.
We believe every child is entitled to an 'Arts rich' curriculum. Artistic and Cultural learning experiences are timetabled into each week explicitly but are also visible throughout all curriculum as a golden thread and key curriculum driver.
We believe every child is entitled to an 'Arts rich' curriculum. Artistic and Cultural learning experiences are timetabled into each week explicitly but are also visible throughout all curriculum as a golden thread and key curriculum driver.
Arts Ambassadors!
Our board of Arts Ambassadors look at our teachers planning each term and make suggestions on how we can incorporate artistic and cultural learning into all lessons. In our meetings, we discuss the Arts & Culture curriculum projects and how we can fundraise to make these happen as well as monitoring the year group scrapbooks to have a view of the Arts & Culture provision at Springfield.
We hope that moving forward, our Ambassadors will support training in staff meetings and on inset days and that they will be able to work with Arts Ambassadors from other schools to collaborate on projects and collect new ideas on how to develop the cultural capital of pupils at Springfield Junior School.
Take a look at an example of our meeting minutes HERE
Curriculum Projects
Year 3In Year 3 children work with local dance artist Sam Moss for a term. The dance classes use the year groups erosion topic to inspire movement and explore their geography learning!
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Year 4 |
Year 5In the Autumn term, Year 5 work with Shakespeare Schools Foundation to learn about, direct, perform and film a Shakespeare play that will be part of a film festival ! Check out the SSF appraisal here:
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Year 6
In Year 6, all students are taking part in a project in partnership with 'The Young People's Puppet Theatre'. Across the year the children, design, make and learn to perform with the puppets which will culminate in their end of year production in the summer term.
Additional timetabled opportunities:
As well as our annual Arts projects, we embrace all additional opportunities that are offered to us or that we can find. This year some of these include working with:
- Fred Sedgewick - Creative writer (YR6)
-Atom & Luna - Performance poetry (YR4)
- Catalina Carvajal - Muralist (YR6)
-Rock, Paper Scissors - Young people's Art Programme (YR5)
-Broomfield Library - Story sessions (YR3)
- Sam Moss - Dance artist (All year groups)
- Jamie Hawkesworth - photographer (All year groups)
- Fred Sedgewick - Creative writer (YR6)
-Atom & Luna - Performance poetry (YR4)
- Catalina Carvajal - Muralist (YR6)
-Rock, Paper Scissors - Young people's Art Programme (YR5)
-Broomfield Library - Story sessions (YR3)
- Sam Moss - Dance artist (All year groups)
- Jamie Hawkesworth - photographer (All year groups)
Clubs!- Musical theatre club
-Choir -Street Dance -Arts and Culture club Take a look...'Arts education is not a luxury, it's a necessity. It's really the air many kids breathe. It's how we get kids excited about getting up and going to school in the morning. It's how we get them to take ownership of their future'
- Michelle Obama, Imagine Nation 2021 |
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