Expressive Arts and Design
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 wide range 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 the arts.
Early Learning Goals
Creating with Materials: Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function. Share their creations, explaining the process they have used. Make use of props and materials when role playing characters in narratives and stories.
Being Imaginative: Invent, adapt and recount narratives and stories with peers and their teacher. Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs. Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and (when appropriate) try to move in time with music.
Autumn term
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Themes Getting to know you, New beginnings and Family diversity, Science – Can we fix it?Autumn |
Enrichment activities Drama Workshop, Teddy Bear Hospital |
Themes Who am I? – personal timelines, Diwali, Christmas, Remembrance Day , Bonfire Night, Anti-bullying week |
Enrichment activities Toys – visiting year 1 toy museum, Nativity Performance, Christmas lunch |
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Music: Being Imaginative Children will sing and perform nursery rhymes. See Charanga Progression of Skills document. |
Music: Being Imaginative Children will experiment with different instruments and their sounds. See Charanga Progression of Skills document. |
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Art & Design: Creating with Materials Drawing. |
Art & Design: Creating with Materials Painting |
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Spring term
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Themes Who has feathers and who has fur? The differences between animals and humans Our senses Valentine’s Day Chinese New Year |
Enrichment activities Chinese New Year Parade Animal Cam/Virtual Zoo Trip |
Themes Whole school art focus Pancake Day Fairtrade Easter International Women’s Day |
Enrichment activities World Book Day Teddy Bear sleep over Teddy Bear’s picnic |
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Music: Being Imaginative Children will create narratives based around stories. See Charanga Progression of Skills document. |
Music: Being Imaginative Children will move in time to the music. See Charanga Progression of Skills document. |
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Art & Design: Creating with Materials Printing |
Art & Design: Creating with Materials Collage |
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Summer term
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Themes How does your garden grow? |
Enrichment activities Growing flowers (sunflowers, daisies) Vegetable Patch Cress Heads Trip to Blatchington Windmill Performance – our class assembly |
Themes Around our school. Where will we go and how will we get there? |
Enrichment activities Trip to the i360 Creating the Gruffalo Recipe Book |
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Music: Being Imaginative Children will play an instrument following a musical pattern. See Charanga Progression of Skills document. |
Music: Being Imaginative Children will invent their own narratives, stories and poems. See Charanga Progression of Skills document. |
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Art & Design: Creating with Materials Sculpture |
Art & Design: Creating with Materials Textiles |
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