Arts Council
We are really looking forward to improving the Arts across school, sharing ideas and listening to everyone’s points of view.
Christmas card enterprise 2023
Our new Arts Council have been busy organising children across school to design their own Christmas cards. The designs were sent away to a professional printing company and samples were sent home with every child across school. Orders have been placed for cards, mugs, coasters and gift tags. This is our fourth year of Christmas card enterprise and it was as popular as ever! Lots of orders were placed by families across school. The arts council will consider in January how best to spend the money and will look at the areas of need within our school. In the past the enterprise money has raised vital funds allowing children to visit The Hepworth art gallery, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Leeds Discovery Centre and Leeds Art Gallery. Watch this space! We will keep you updated on any decisions made.
Arts Council 2023-2024
Meet our new arts council for 2023-2024. The council is made up of children from years 3,4,5 and 6. All children had to apply for their role on the council and complete an application form stating their interests in the arts and how they thought improvements could be made. A democratic vote was held and children were voted on to the council from each year group.
Since September the arts council have been working hard behind the scenes to produce the termly ‘ARTs Newsletter’. They have organised an enterprise initiative to raise vital money for future arts visits and to allow artists in to school to work with children.
Art Show 2023
The school arts council organised our annual art show this year. They were responsible for art activities, advertising the event, curating work and enterprise. The arts council attended the event which took place over two nights so that they could support the children and families. Both nights were well attended and the children and families enjoyed seeing their work on the wall and taking part in art activities. Well done arts council!
Drawing along with Rob Biddulph to celebrate King Charles III coronation!
Our arts council wanted to celebrate King Charles III coronation. They asked the children in KS1 and KS2 to draw along with artist and illustrator Rob Biddulph. Every child learnt about the importance of St Edward’s crown and drew along step by step to create their interpretations of the Royal Crown which was worn by King Charles III at his coronation. Here are some of the crowns created by the children in EYFS, KS1 and KS2.
A visit to Leeds Discovery Centre
Our arts council visited Leeds Discovery Centre recently which houses the Leeds museums and gallery services artefacts. They were blown away by the variety of artefacts that are housed there. They had a guided tour of the store room which holds hundreds of thousands of artefacts from all across the world. They got to ask lots of questions and see how carefully the artefacts are kept and catalogued. They got to enjoy an art workshop in the education room. They were very impressed at the collections and have ideas for how we can use the centre and the artefacts to enhance the art curriculum and learning back at school.
Easter egg decorating competition 2023
Our school arts council organised our annual Easter egg decorating competition. Every child from nursery to year 6 was invited to create a themed, decorated Easter egg. The children brought their entries into school where they could be seen by their peers. The arts council had the hard job of judging the entries. Each class was awrded a first prize and two runner up prizes. There was some eggcellent entries which showed brilliant creativity! Well done to all of the children who took part.
Arts Council 2022- 2023
This year due to the popularity of our Arts Council we decided to expand the team and include children from year 3, 4, 5 and 6. This will enable us to have a more balanced view of what children think across the school of our ‘arts provision’ and enable them to put things in to practise more readily. We had over 40 children apply for the roles with some very strong letters of application. Our successful candidates are responsible for making the arts provision across school exciting and flexible. They meet each week to discuss their ideas and move things forward.
Christmas Card enterprise 2022
Our newly appointed Arts Council decided they wanted to raise money so that they could decide how to spend it on ‘arts provision’ across the school. As before in 2021, the council agreed that giving the children the opportunity to design their own Christmas Card and have it printed would be a great way to allow the children a chance to be creative and share the outcome with their families while hopefully raising money for school. The Arts Council will decide how to spend the profit in the future and will vote to make a final decision. Last year, the profit that was made allowed year 1 and year 2 to visit The Yorkshire Sculpture Park and The Hepworth. Watch this space…
Christmas Fair 2022
The Arts Council organised their own stall at our recent Christmas Fair. They created a print your own gift wrap and tag opportunity for families visiting the fair. For a £1.00 children and families could create their own sheet of gift wrap and make a matching gift tag. The children organised the resources, set up the stall and helped out at the event staying after school until 6p.m. Well done Arts Council!
Platinum Jubilee Art Show 2022
The Arts Council organised our recent end of year art show in celebration of the Platinum Jubilee. The children were responsible for bringing together the art work from nursery to year 6 so that every child would be represented by a piece of work from this academic year. The Arts Council thought of art based activities to have in the hall space for children and families to enjoy. They created art posters to advertise the event, social media posts and invited important people. They also raised money for Wheatfield’s Hospice (in memory of our dear colleague, Ms Franklin) and for UNICEF Ukraine. The Arts Council carried out an enterprise initiative, where they sold sketchbooks, pencils and rubbers. The money raised from this enterprise will be spent wisely and this is something that the Arts Council will be discussing at future meetings. The art show was held over 4 nights to allow children and families to visit the space safely and was very well attended by all key stages. We even made it into the local newspaper!
Easter Egg decorating competition 2022
The Arts Council organised the annual Easter Egg decorating competition this year. Children were invited to get creative and see how they could decorate their eggs. There were prizes for every class and this was a whole school event with children taking part from nursery to year 6. The Arts Council had the tough job of judging the eggs. There were some eggcellent entries!
Arts Council 2021 – 2022
We have had 48 applicants for the new Arts Council. Children from year 5 and 6 were asked to apply for their place on the Arts Council which will run from 2021 to 2022. It was amazing to see so many children interested in the arts and valuing art, dance, drama and music as part of our curriculum. Well done to everyone who applied! Candidates will be revealed next week. Some very tough decisions need to be made.
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.
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, mugs and key ring gifts. The children created some very professional looking designs. Thank you to everyone that ordered cards and gifts. The money raised by the Arts Council has gone towards purchasing new art books on artists and art history for the art room and we are hoping to get some artists in to school to work with the children. Watch this space!
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 you to all of the children that applied. It was a pleasure to read everyone’s applications.
We had a very busy agenda with lots of exciting things planned for the weeks ahead:
- summer arts magazine
- Launch 50 art activities across school
- Whole school art project linked to year 6 virtual session with Leeds Art Gallery – Medicine Wheel
- Drawing project with Leeds Art Gallery and local artist Nicola Pemberton
- judging the Easter egg decorating competition
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 you can see on the photos. The Arts Council looked carefully at all of the entries and had an extremely difficult job of judging them. However, after much discussion they agreed on the winner and runners up from each class. They would like to say a big thank you to everyone that entered the competition. Here are some photos from the event for you to enjoy.
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 collected by the class teachers and placed in a circular shape. Each class will have their own ‘Medicine Wheel’ which will go on display in the main hall and combine to make one big piece of art for the school to enjoy. It will be really interesting to see what the children from nursery to year 6 collect. Watch this space!
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 pandemic. We had a fantastic response with 62 entries! There were some brilliant designs with NHS workers and Sir Captain Tom Moore featuring heavily. The Arts Council would like to thank everyone that entered the competition. Here are some of the brilliant entries. Enjoy!
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 Council along with the children from 6MB decided that they wanted to create a piece of natural art in response to their learning. All children were asked to bring in a small, natural object. Each class were then given the freedom to arrange their objects as they wanted. The class compilations have been placed together and are on display in the main school hall on the Ms Franklin celebration of life wall .The project looks beautiful (I know Ms Franklin would approve as she loved nature and art) and shows that art can be made from anything! The exciting thing about this project is that it will change over time as some of the more natural objects will fade. Here are some pictures of the project. We hope you enjoy looking at it!
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 Webster when they have completed an activity. The art passport will move through school with your child as part of their art learning. If you do work at home, you can bring it in to show your teacher or Miss Webster and get your stamp. How many will you do?
Christmas Card Enterprise 2021
The Arts Council have organised a Christmas Card initiative this year following on from the success of the 2019 Christmas card enterprise. All children from nursery to year 6 were asked to create their own Christmas card design. This has been sent off to the printers and parents have been able to place orders for their child’s design. These will make wonderful gifts at Christmas time for family and friends, adding a personal touch. The profit made from this enterprise will be used to get artists in school and educational visits linked to the ‘Arts’ in the future.
Hands of Remembrance 2021
Every child from nursery to year 6 created a ‘hand of remembrance’ to combine to make a giant, poppy on Remembrance Day 2021. The children shared stories, had time for reflection, and learned the significance of the 11th month, the 11th day of the 11th hour. They read the story ‘Where the Poppies Now Grow’. A beautiful and poignant reminder of the past. Lest we forget.
Recycled Christmas decorations 2021
The Arts Council and Eco Council have come together this year to do their bit to help save the planet. The children have been learning about the future of our planet and watching recent news. They decided to ask all children to save and collect small items that would ordinarily be thrown into landfill like yoghurt pots, plastic and metal bottle lids, egg boxes, cardboard, lollipop sticks and more. The Arts Council have been busy sorting all of the many items that have been collected and this week children across school will make their recycled Christmas decorations. We can’t wait to see them hanging on our school Christmas tree in December.
Recycled Christmas decorations
Our Christmas tree looked beautiful this year. For the first time ever the Arts council encouraged children and families to collect small items that would ordinarily go into land fill to create Christmas decorations. Each class contributed to our school Christmas tree which took pride of place in the main hall. Every child made a decoration that they could take home and some were placed on the school tree. I think you will agree the decorations looked beautiful and were kinder to the planet!
Arts Council 2022- 2023
This year due to the popularity of our Arts Council we decided to expand the team and include children from year 3, 4, 5 and 6. This will enable us to have a more balanced view of what children think across the school of our ‘arts provision’ and enable them to put things in to practise more readily. We had over 40 children apply for the roles with some very strong letters of application. Our successful candidates are responsible for making the arts provision across school exciting and flexible. They meet each week to discuss their ideas and move things forward.