POTION MAKING
PUDDLE PAINTING
The Colours of Autumn
We focused on observational drawing skills using Autumn resources. We have been drawing conkers, pumpkins, sticks, leaves.... We focused on the shape, colour and little details to make our drawings as accurate as possible.
EXPRESIVE ARTS AND DESIGN IN NURSERY
Music
Art
Design and Technology
The development of children's artistic and cultural awareness supports their imagination and creativity. It is important that children have regular opportunities to engage with the arts, enabling them to explore and play with a range wide of media and materials. The quality and variety of what children see, hear and participate in is crucial for developing their understanding, self- expression, vocabulary and ability to communicate through arts. The frequency, repetition and depth of their experiences are fundamental to their progress in interpreting and appreciating what they hear, respond to and observe.
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Expressive Arts and Design: Creating with Materials
INTENT STATMENTS:
In Early Years we capitalise on children’s natural excitement for and freedom to express their thoughts, ideas and inner feelings as artists by:
IMPLEMENTATION STATEMENT:
Being an artist is valued and promoted through direct teaching and purposeful learning opportunities across different themes throughout the year.
For each curriculum theme we have identified the artistic knowledge and skills that we will teach ensuring that knowledge and skills are regularly revisited. We cover the following themes:
All About Me and All About the World: through this topic children will learn about lines and shapes through self portraits and different materials
Bonfire Night and Christmas - Exploring colour and colour mixing
Investigation weeks - Joining materials and exploring textures
Garden and Growing - Creating closed shapes and continuous lines
Minibeasts: through this topic children will learn about form through sculpture
Under the Sea: through this topic children will learn about colour and texture through collage and painting
Opportunities are also provided for children to express their own creative ideas by exploring, experimenting and combining materials to create different effects.
Creative areas, inside and outdoors, are resourced with a wide range of tools, media and materials and are organised in a way that encourages children to be independent in their choices and decisions. We recognise and use the links between being an artist and gross and fine motor development and provide vertical surfaces and large areas where children can stand enabling them to have greater stability and more control over the tools they are using.
In the provision adults promote children’s creativity and imagination by valuing their ideas and encouraging freedom of expression. They support and facilitate children in the application of their artistic knowledge and skills.
Creating things is valued and promoted through direct teaching and purposeful learning opportunities across all planned themes throughout the year.
We use planned themes and capitalise on unplanned moments that present themselves to encourage children to design, make and evaluate.
The environment has two focused areas: the Construction area and Creative Workshop, inside and outdoors, which are resourced with a wide range of equipment and tools. They are organised in a way that encourages children to be independent in their choices and decisions and to use their knowledge to find solutions and use resources in unique and innovative ways.
Both areas include resources to plan their ideas.
In our provision adults promote children’s creativity, originality and problem solving by valuing their ideas and encouraging them to make connections in their learning, take risks and learn from mistakes.
IMPACT STATEMENT:
By the end of my time at St Francis Xavier I will know how to…
Expressive Arts and Design: Being Imaginative and Expressive
INTENT STATMENT:
In Early Years we capitalise on children’s innate desire to listen to, make and explore sound by:
In Early Years we capitalise on children’s innate desire to move by:
IMPLEMENTATION STATMENT:
Music is valued and promoted through direct teaching and purposeful learning opportunities across our provision.
Different genres are played to provide opportunities for children to listen to, appreciate and explore sounds, instruments, beat and rhythm. The genres covered vary from Pop to Flamenco to African.
Singing is an integral part of the daily routines and children are taught new songs as well as practising songs they already know. Over the year they develop a wide repertoire of songs and rhymes that they know by heart.
A weekly music session is also delivered focusing on musical knowledge and skills.
Our music area and outside stage are resourced with a wide range of untuned and tuned musical instruments and beaters, familiar songs and rhymes and equipment to play and record music. It is organised in a way that encourages children to be curious about sound and confident in experimenting with ways of combining different sounds.
We recognise and use the links between Dance and Music and provide children with a stage where they are encouraged to perform themselves and appreciate others’ performances.
In our provision adults promote children’s creativity and imagination by valuing their ideas and encouraging freedom of expression. They support and facilitate opportunities for children to rehearse, refine and develop their musical skills.
Dance is valued and promoted through direct teaching and purposeful learning opportunities within our provision.
A weekly dance session is delivered focusing on dance knowledge and skills. We recognise the direct link between Dance and Physical Development and use the discreet sessions to practise balance and coordination through core work, building strength, crossing the midline and symmetrical movements.
We use our annual themes and the relationship between Dance and Music as a stimulus to plan opportunities for children to experiment with and create their own dance movements. Children also have access to a stage, instruments, recorded music, costumes and props where they are encouraged to be inventive, imaginative and perform themselves and appreciate others’ performances.
In the provision adults promote children’s creativity and imagination by valuing their ideas and encouraging freedom of expression. They support and facilitate opportunities for children to rehearse, refine and develop their dance skills.
IMPACT STATMENT:
By the end of my time at St Francis Xavier I will know how to…