Arts Council

We are really looking forward to improving the Arts across school, sharing ideas and listening to everyone's points of view.

  • 50 Art activities to try before you leave Clapgate Primary School.

    Here are 50 art activities for you to try before you leave Clapgate Primary School. Lots of these will be covered through our art curriculum in school however you might want to try some of them at home. Every child will have an art passport which they can get stamped by their class teacher or Miss…

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  • Whole School Natural Art Project

    Earlier this year 6MB took part in a virtual workshop with Amanda Phillips from Leeds Art Gallery. The children had the opportunity to see inside the gallery spaces and look at art exhibits. The class were introduced to the Medicine Wheel , a sculpture made entirely of natural objects by artist Chris Drury. The Arts…

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  • Royal Mail Heroes Stamp Competition

    The Arts Council recently encouraged children from across school to take part in the Royal Mail Heroes Stamp Competition. Posters were placed around school and a letter to parents was sent out to explain the competition. The children were asked to think about who they thought were their heroes over this last year throughout the…

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  • Whole school art project – The Medicine Wheel

    The Arts Council have recently asked every child to collect a small, natural object and bring it to school. This is in response to a workshop that class 6MB completed with Amanda Phillips from Leeds Art Gallery where the children looked at a sculpture entitled The Medicine Wheel by Chris Drury.  These objects will be…

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  • Egg decorating competition 2021!

    Our newly appointed Arts Council members took their role very seriously recently when they had to judge the egg decorating entries from across school. The Arts Council organised the event so that children from nursery to year 6 could take part and have fun decorating an egg at home. Their were some eggcellent entries which…

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  • Meet the new Arts Council 2021 – 2022

    The new Arts Council met for the first time this week. Twelve children were chosen from across year 5 and 6 after making strong applications for why they wanted to be on the school Arts Council. This year, we had an unprecedented 48 children apply for the roles and I would like to say thank…

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  • Christmas Cards Enterprise

    For the first time ever at Clapgate the Arts Council decided that they wanted to give the children at school the opportunity to create and design their own Christmas card that could be professionally printed in time to give to their families  for Christmas. This was a resounding success! The families loved receiving their cards,…

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  • Creating Bug Hotels 

    It is funny to think that  a year ago the Arts Council went to Middleton Woods to collect natural objects to put inside our school bug houses. A year down the line the bug houses are doing well, have withstood all weathers and have some resident bugs.

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