Art (ID 1007)

• The Mud Maid arts project
  The Mud Maid arts project

  Throughout the schoolwe watched and listened to the story of ‘The Mud Maid' from the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, which was rediscovered in the gardens there after they were re-developed.

  The gardens were sadly abandoned during WW1 when the gardeners became soldiers, and theMud Maidwas forgotten about for a long time.

  Joy Spencer, a friend of Sandown, wrote the music to accompany the story and came to visit us.

  Children took part in a number of different activities including creating collages, writing poems, creating performances and working collaboratively using natural materials. The children had a wonderful week.The children's artworkwas thendisplayed at a local multi sensory exhibition at St Georges Church.

  The Mud Maid arts project

  

• A day to create
  A day to create

  Children spent the day exploring a creative story and designing and creating their own imaginary world and beings. They then dared to invent and created a helpful invention for the school in the afternoon.

• Sky Arts Week
  Sky Arts Week

  What a fantastic week! Children spent the week being creative. They listened and responded to poetry and music in a variety of ways and had fun creating their own using powerful words. Children explored diversity and created their own works of art celebrating diversity. The children experimented with paper, scissors and tapeAt break time children explored with chalks, water and sponges and had a go at finger knitting and braiding. We were so proud of how well the children worked together and supported each other. We even had some local artists visit creating felted animals. Some year groups explored different genres of film and looked at the different roles and responsibilities that come with making a film. They even had a go at creating their own, becoming film directors, actors and prop makers. All in all a fantastic week had by all.

  Arts week 2022

  

• Plastic Protest
  Plastic Protest

  A wonderful turn out for an important message. Lots of chanting and support.

  The sculpture was for a sculpture competition with the National Schools Partnership to ignite pupils’ creativity to repurpose plastic waste into something beautiful with this cross-curricular programme and to learn about the damaging effects of plastic on the environment and animals we love. Any recycling, littler picking or save the planet projects you do at home we would love to see a post all about it to share with classes and spread these important messages.

  Plastic Protest

  

• Deal Learning Alliance Climate Art competition
  Deal Learning Alliance Climate Art competition

  Thank you to all those children who shared their Art with us as a school.

  The winners of each year group are now on display at Deal Library.Congratulations to those children gaining a first, second or third place certificate.

  Growth in art is driven by ideas, opportunities and reflection. We know competitions encourage children to think outside the box, explore their creative potential, and come up with unique ideas and concepts. Through competitions children can be exposed to a diverse range of themes, topics, and challenges that challenge their imagination and creativity. By showing art in a gallery format at the library we are also respecting children's art as having it's own distinct value. Following that, for all the children that took part their Art work is going to be displayed in a folder in the school library for all of us to appreciate their visions and imagination.

  Climate Art

  

• Our Modern Remakes competition
  Our Modern Remakes competition

  Children, parents, staff and extended families were invited to take part in a very exciting modern remakes competition.

  The challenge was to recreate different pieces of artwork. We had entries ranging from paintings, sculptures, photography to pencil drawings.

  Thank you to all the families and staff for the wonderful entries. This is myfavouritecompetition yet!

  Recreation of works of art

  

• Roman shield competition
  Roman shield competition

  A local community group called 'The History Project', asked us to take part in a competition.

  The History Project is a local charitable organisation who inspire and educate children of all ages on our local history. For this particular competition children were asked to design a Roman shield. Their shields where then displayed with other schools in the area and the Emperor from the Roman festival came to inspect and choose some designs! We had one lucky runner up.

  Well done everyone!

  Roman Shield Comp

  

• RED DUCK
  RED DUCK

  

  The whole school was invited to take part in a local competition called Redduck.

  REDDUCK is a campaign led by a local family to raise awareness of HHV6 virus. For this campaign they wanted a drawing of a red duck they could use in their campaign materials and asked local schools to take part. Children in school were made aware of what was happening in the community around them and eagerly wanted to take part.

  With so many entries, it was a tough choice, however we had three lucky winners.

  3rd Marshall - won a red duck

  2nd Jamie - won a toy
  1st Harrison - £25 book voucher

  

• Art Movement Day
  Art Movement Day

  On our recent Art Movement Day, we explored various artistic styles such as Art Nouveau, Romanticism, Art Deco, and Surrealism. The children had a fantastic time learning about these different movements and creating their own masterpieces inspired by them. It was a truly enriching experience for all involved. We look forward to continuing to nurture the creative talents of our students in future events.

  Art Movement day