ARTS AND CULTURE

Arts

Encouraging creativity helps inspire our children to become courageous, inquisitive learners. Music is delivered by specialist teachers with a strong emphasis on performance and the pleasure of making music; our children relish in the opportunity to showcase their talents in end of term concerts and special assemblies.

Drama is taught weekly and the children develop their performance skills in drama and English Speaking Board lessons. Additionally we run annual prose reading and poetry competitions and end of year shows.

Art, textiles and design technology are taught, largely within our own specialist art room. The beautiful work on display is testament to the quality of teaching and the pleasure that the children derive from these subjects.

World And Culture

We believe that children should love and take pride in their own culture as well as respecting and understanding that of others. History, geography and religious education are taught concurrently alongside philosophy and values education.

Through the delivery of these subjects, our children develop a wider understanding of themselves and their own cultural identity as well as broadening their knowledge of and respect for other cultures and traditions. Learning Spanish, French and Latin further widens the children’s empathy and sympathetic understanding of other cultures, in addition to providing a sound foundation in foreign languages.

School assemblies cover a broad range of spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues to widen the children’s awareness of the world.

ARTWORK IS INSPIRED BY THE STUDY OF ARTIST TECHNIQUES AND STYLES

PUPIL PARTICIPATION AND ENJOYMENT ARE PARAMOUNT

DESIGN TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS INVOLVE WOODWORKING AND ELECTRONICS