Art in Cumran Primary School provides all pupils with the opportunities to explore and express themselves creativity as well as being taught new skills and techniques.
Art projects are often linked to each term’s World Around Us topic where pupils can demonstrate their knowledge in the mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture and textiles.
Over the course of their school career children will be able to experience using all forms of media in their art work. Each pupil creates a portfolio of work from year 1 to year 7 so they can see the progression they have made and have a record of the skills they have perfected.
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All pupils enjoy taking part in drama activities within their own year group and work in their key stages to produce a production at Christmas for parents/guardians and friends to enjoy.
Foundation Stage
Pupils have the opportunity to engage in a variety of play activities where they can take on roles depending on their topic e.g. The farm, pirates, people who help us. This enables the children to use vocals and movements to act out their role.
Key Stage 1
Pupils enjoy taking part in role-play situations in their topic work, hot-seating characters and creating freeze frames. They enjoy developing their dramatic skills to use simple props to suggest a character’s and work on their voice and actions to make meaning.
Key Stage 2
Pupils will engage in a variety of activities where they can create imaginative role play scenarios, developing drama strategies of freeze frame, tableau, hot-seating, thought tracking and conscience alley and developing their dramatic skills appropriate to audience where they will explore voice, movement, gesture and facial expressions.
The end of year ‘Talent Show’ is always very popular with the children and it’s great to see them putting together their own individual or group performances.