What Does Expressive Arts look like at Central Primary?
At Central Primary, the Expressive Arts AOLE seeks to-
- Engage, motivate and encourage learners to develop their creative, artistic and performance skills to the full.
- Learning and experience in this Area encourages the development of knowledge, skills and values that can help learners grasp the opportunities and meet the challenges that arise in their lives.
- The Expressive Arts Area of Learning and Experience (Area) spans five disciplines: art, dance, drama, film and digital media and music.
What Matters statements in Expressive Arts
WM1 Exploring the expressive arts is essential to developing artistic skills and knowledge and it enables learners to become curious and creative individuals.
WM2 Responding and reflecting, both as artist and audience, is a fundamental part of learning in the expressive arts.
WM3 Creating combines skills and knowledge, drawing on the senses, inspiration and imagination.
Expressive Arts in Central Primary School.
Learners will be taught new skills, have support to practice and then be given opportunities to independently apply their knowledge skills and understanding through a range of contexts.
The disciplines of art, dance, drama, film and digital media and music share the creative process, and each contributes transferable skills and knowledge to a learner’s experience. In addition, each discipline has its own discrete body of knowledge and body of skills with increasing level of complexity. These include but are not limited to the following:
Art
Art includes the experimentation and development of an almost limitless range of resources, materials, techniques and processes across all types of art, craft and design to produce a range of outcomes and to demonstrate a personal and creative response.
- line, shape, texture, colour, design, form (2D, 3D, 4D), pattern, tone, shading, space, contrast, proportion, composition, scale, perspective
- architectural design, advertising, animation, constructed textiles (knitting/weaving/embellishment), ceramics, craft, design, drawing, environmental/landscape art, fashion, fine art, communication graphics, jewellery and body adornment, illustration, interactive design (including web, app and game), interior design, installation, live art, making, mixed media, moving image, multi-media, package design, painting, photography, print-making (relief/intaglio/screen processes/lithography), signage, sculpting, sound art, surface pattern, textiles, typography, video
Dance
Dance includes performing, choreography and appreciation across a range of styles.
- movement framework (body actions, space, dynamics, relationships), time (rhythm and phrasing), improvisation, character, motifs/phrases
- choreographic devices (unison and canon, repetition, variation and development, complementary and contrasting, climax, highlights)
- compositional structures (beginning, middle and end, binary, ternary, rondo, theme and variation, narrative, unity, logical sequence, transitions)
- dance compositions (pure, abstract, lyrical, dramatic, comic, dance-drama)
- performance/refinement including physical elements (actions, posture, alignment, balance, coordination, control, flexibility, mobility, strength, stamina, extension, isolation)
- expression (projection, spatial awareness, musicality, phrasing, facial expression, interpretation, communication)
- technical considerations (timing, reproduction of movement in a stylistically accurate way)
Drama
Drama includes acting, directing, design, technical theatre and arts administration.
- plot, character, thought, relationships (which encompasses interaction), tension, focus, place, time, language, voice (which encompasses accent, diction, pitch, tempo, pauses), movement (which encompasses gesture, facial expressions), proxemics, atmosphere, mood, symbols, design which encompasses stage lighting, sound, set, hair, make-up, costume, script writing, directing and stage management
- comedy, tragedy, tragicomedy, farce, musical theatre, melodrama, mime, physical theatre
Film and digital media
Film and digital media includes television, film, radio, games design, photography, live events and theatrical production skills, print media, social media, sound and audio production.
- editing, post production, 3D space, 2D space, sound, lighting, camera, narrative, style, genre, audience, composition (visual, virtual and sonic), form (animation, live action, audio, written), virtual reality
- sound, video/film (animation, documentary, narrative, music video), print media, radio/podcast, photography, graphics, virtual forms, linear forms, non-linear forms, interactive media, social media, audio production and design, lighting design, stage design, social media, game design, event design, production design
Music
Music includes performing, improvising and composing, listening and appreciation.
- pitch, melody, dynamics, texture, tempo, timbre, rhythm, metre, form and structure, tonality, musical devices (e.g. repetition, ostinato, sequence), harmony, intonation
- binary, ternary, rondo, round, minuet and trio, strophic, theme and variation, through-composed, sonata
- performing (including vocal, instrumental, technology e.g. DJ-ing), improvising and composing (including vocal, instrumental, acoustic, electric and digital, editing/production), listening (including analysing, evaluating, and appreciating a range of musical forms and styles across genres and periods of time)
Progression in the Expressive Arts
- Increasing breadth and depth of knowledge
- Deepening understanding of the ideas and disciplines within areas of learning and experience
- Refinement and growing sophistication in the use and application of skills
- Making connections and transferring learning into new contexts
- Increasing effectiveness as a learner
List of possible learning experiences for Expressive Arts at Central includes:-
- Visits to Art Galleries ( such as Glyn Vivian Swansea )
- Exposure to amateur and professional theatrical performance
- Opportunities to work with local artists
- Exposure to street art/ graffiti in the local area.
- Time given to listening to different genres of music across time.
- Singing daily as part of assembly routine
- Dance lessons during PE
- Weekly singing as whole school.
- Mixed media art lessons
- Choir in PS2 and PS3
- Opportunity for each year group to perform in front of an audience
- (Christmas plays, singing / recital item for other Celebrations throughout the year.
- Brass and string instruments in PS2 and 3.
- Opportunities for green screen and simple film making
- Using digital media devices to record, arrange and improvise music