PL at Staff Meeting
Olive Jones & Shelley Howse
6 July 2016
We talked about the curriculum docs for the Arts and the general look of a two year long term Arts plan teaching the strands - Visual Arts, Dance, Drama and Music.
As the Operetta is coming up this term it seems timely to remind ourselves of the Arts curriculum which often gets pushed to the side with the pressures of teaching Literacy and Numeracy (not to mention everything else!)
Shelley warmed us up with an easy and fun activity - each person was given a paper bag with an object inside it. Without looking to see what the object is, we had to feel it with one hand and draw what we could feel with the other hand. it was great. I felt my brain working in a creative way.
We also reminded ourselves about sketching - shading and using a sketch pencil to 'talk' 'whisper' or 'shout'. Shading a simple shape to turn it into a 3-D object, considering shadow and light source.
I lead a short session on Dance and Drama, drawing on the workshops I attended years ago as part of a research initiative called The Art of the Matter: How children learn in the Arts.
We warmed up with a simple exercise - writing our names in the air using our elbows, knee, head etc. I introduced some simple things like moving across the room with a partner holding an imaginary piece of paper or egg between our shoulders or other body part. Talked about using techniques such as freeze-frame or fast slow and high low in pair work, expressing an emotion with our bodies in response to an announcement.
Also talked about locomotor and non-locomotor movement - making pathways in different ways to get children aware of their bodies and to respond to words, music, a rhythm etc.
I also talked about using a story to create a dance or drama segment - Hairy Maclary or the Three Little Pigs, for example.
I enjoy the Arts. I feel relaxed and confident in this area. Its creative and everyone enjoys engaging with it. On reflection, I realise I don't do enough of it. The usual issue of a crowded curriculum, too many interruptions, and not enough hours in a teaching day!
6 July 2016
We talked about the curriculum docs for the Arts and the general look of a two year long term Arts plan teaching the strands - Visual Arts, Dance, Drama and Music.
As the Operetta is coming up this term it seems timely to remind ourselves of the Arts curriculum which often gets pushed to the side with the pressures of teaching Literacy and Numeracy (not to mention everything else!)
Shelley warmed us up with an easy and fun activity - each person was given a paper bag with an object inside it. Without looking to see what the object is, we had to feel it with one hand and draw what we could feel with the other hand. it was great. I felt my brain working in a creative way.
We also reminded ourselves about sketching - shading and using a sketch pencil to 'talk' 'whisper' or 'shout'. Shading a simple shape to turn it into a 3-D object, considering shadow and light source.
I lead a short session on Dance and Drama, drawing on the workshops I attended years ago as part of a research initiative called The Art of the Matter: How children learn in the Arts.
We warmed up with a simple exercise - writing our names in the air using our elbows, knee, head etc. I introduced some simple things like moving across the room with a partner holding an imaginary piece of paper or egg between our shoulders or other body part. Talked about using techniques such as freeze-frame or fast slow and high low in pair work, expressing an emotion with our bodies in response to an announcement.
Also talked about locomotor and non-locomotor movement - making pathways in different ways to get children aware of their bodies and to respond to words, music, a rhythm etc.
I also talked about using a story to create a dance or drama segment - Hairy Maclary or the Three Little Pigs, for example.
I enjoy the Arts. I feel relaxed and confident in this area. Its creative and everyone enjoys engaging with it. On reflection, I realise I don't do enough of it. The usual issue of a crowded curriculum, too many interruptions, and not enough hours in a teaching day!
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