. 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-long skills to succeed and develop cultural capital.
We believe every child is entitled to an 'Arts rich' curriculum.
Artistic and Cultural learning experiences are funded by the school and timetabled within school hours as annual projects. This means every child at Springfield accesses these varying opportunities every year completely free of charge. Our creative and cultural work has been recognised by Arts Council England and we are proud to have been awarded with an Artsmark Gold Accreditation.
We believe every child is entitled to an 'Arts rich' curriculum.
Artistic and Cultural learning experiences are funded by the school and timetabled within school hours as annual projects. This means every child at Springfield accesses these varying opportunities every year completely free of charge. Our creative and cultural work has been recognised by Arts Council England and we are proud to have been awarded with an Artsmark Gold Accreditation.
Arts & Culture Projects
Year 3 Over a half term, each YR3 class visits the Broomhill library weekly. They are shown how to navigate the facilities, share favourite books with each other and are treated to a story telling by the library manager Helen. At the end of the project all pupils are set up with their own library card and set a summer reading challenge
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Year 4Over the course of 12 weeks, Wooden Roots work with each YR4 class weekly to explore the history of the African drum, learn how to play them and use movement to express both their learning and their emotions. This culminates in a performance which the families are invited to.
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Year 5For half a term, each YR5 class have a weekly workshop with a theatre practitioner from the New Wolsey Theatre. These sessions link closely to our JIGSAW PSHE scheme of work and centre around identity, The project culminates in a short performance which is shared with the adjacent classes in the year group.
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Year 6
Across the whole year, YPPT (The Young People's Puppet Theatre) run weekly workshops for YR6 make a Marionette puppet as well as complicated scenery and props. Once these have been developed, the children learn how to puppeteer and voice the puppets. The project culminates in an end of year performance for the parents.
To read more about our Arts and Culture projects check out a more detailed overview here.
To look at what our parents and our pupils have to say about Arts and Culture at Springfield take a look at our padlets below.
Pupil Voice
Parent Voice
To look at what our parents and our pupils have to say about Arts and Culture at Springfield take a look at our padlets below.
Pupil Voice
Parent Voice
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.
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
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:
- Apprenticeship mornings – All children work with a different industry professional to introduce them to the world of work ( 4 mornings per year)
- Trips and visits – Curriculum trips are planned carefully into subject areas and accumulate in both content and range of experience eg: transportation and context.
- Dance – Dance unit within PE taught by local dance artist Sam Moss for all year groups
- Clubs – Changing offer on termly basis including range of external providers
- Legacy projects – YR6 work with local Artist Catalina Carvejal/Rock Paper Scissors on a legacy mural
- Educational research – YR4 participate in Atom and Luna writing unit in partnership with Funnelwick Limb and Essex university with a focus on creative writing and AR technology to engage and inspire.
A Day To Create !
To celebrate Arts Council's 20th anniversary, Springfield participated in 'A Day to Create'. This included a whole school assembly followed by a ranged of magical themed lessons to inspire creative writing. YR3 created magical creatures, YR4 designed and described magic doors and the realms that could be behind them and Yr5 worked on a crazy complaint letter, The day was punctuated with a potion making workshop, where thanks to generous donations from Morrisons and Ipswich rotary, the children invented and were able to take home a magical bubbling potion as well as a batik workshop, in which every child added to an extra large piece that is now displayed proudly in our main hall. An amazing day was had by all! Check out some footage from our day below:
Clubs!- Musical theatre club
-Choir -Street Dance -Arts and Culture club - Creative writing club - Running Club - First Aid club - Wildlife 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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