Last week we ran our first ever onsite Music and Art Week with Year 4 pupils from Clase Primary School. We had a great time coming up with some team names and mascots (the spiderpig was one of my favourites) and then building the mascots out of sand and scrap on the beach.
We had some interesting interruptions to our walk coming back from the beach, with a fully fitted out film crew popping up amongst the dunes, and some errant sheep making a bold dash for freedom!
Next day featured tracking animals in the woods and making some more unusual forest creatures of our own – here’s Blue Team’s great Man of the Woods:
We also did a lot of running around the woods pretending to be woodpeckers and then helping each other come up with clan rhythms on percussion instruments.
We then got messy with mud paint and clay in the sports hall, building on Clase Primary’s current class topic of the Celts. So, here’s a sample of the fab Celtic badges made by students:
Then, as if all that wasn’t enough, we got in the mood for Halllowe’en with an evening lamp procession using lanterns made from willow and paper and some spooky flickering lights . .
We finished off the week by making more music and building some of the animals we had tracked in the woods earlier in the week out of scrap and craft materials (although we also had some brave attempts at making spiderpigs).
My favourite artwork of the week? A city in sand designed on the beach - it sort of reminds me of the Nazca Lines in Peru. Great stuff.
Thanks to Mrs Thomas from Clase Primary for most of the above photos. Interested in coming for an Arts Week yourself? Email info@stmadoc.co.uk to see what we can offer.
We had some interesting interruptions to our walk coming back from the beach, with a fully fitted out film crew popping up amongst the dunes, and some errant sheep making a bold dash for freedom!
Next day featured tracking animals in the woods and making some more unusual forest creatures of our own – here’s Blue Team’s great Man of the Woods:
We also did a lot of running around the woods pretending to be woodpeckers and then helping each other come up with clan rhythms on percussion instruments.
Then, as if all that wasn’t enough, we got in the mood for Halllowe’en with an evening lamp procession using lanterns made from willow and paper and some spooky flickering lights . .
We finished off the week by making more music and building some of the animals we had tracked in the woods earlier in the week out of scrap and craft materials (although we also had some brave attempts at making spiderpigs).
My favourite artwork of the week? A city in sand designed on the beach - it sort of reminds me of the Nazca Lines in Peru. Great stuff.
Thanks to Mrs Thomas from Clase Primary for most of the above photos. Interested in coming for an Arts Week yourself? Email info@stmadoc.co.uk to see what we can offer.
