Developing a Growth Mindset through the Arts
Today we have been delighted to present about Confident Creators at the national Storymakers Festival: Reimagining the Curriculum. Speakers have included researchers and schools across the country – including contributions … Continue Reading Presenting Confident Creators today at the Storymakers Festival
Artist Laura X Carle worked with teachers from our schools today, sharing some very simple activities for children to do, creating using pencil, paper and some masking tape in 2 … Continue Reading Taking your pencil for a walk – CPD session
In this example, in the first year of the project the teacher used Art to bring the Trojan Horse story to life for the children, whilst focussing on helping children … Continue Reading Year 5 lesson Battle of Troy – using drama and art
The attached document gives the lesson plan and some detail on the creativity and learning for pupils from it, when a Year 5 class started their Islamic Empire topic using … Continue Reading Year 5 Music – Islamic Empire
Using Soundscape & Songwriting to explore Vikings topic The Vikings has been a topic that has lent itself to a lot of creative output in the Confident Creators programme – … Continue Reading Year 3 Music lesson
Drama is a great way to help children generate ideas for writing. In this year 2 example, the teacher wanted to help the children, on a Monday morning, start thinking … Continue Reading Year 2 Drama lesson – using storysquare and conscience alley techniques to generate children’s ideas for Antarctic diary entries
Developing different art skills alongside exploration of an English text gives children another way to express their understanding and their creative ideas, right the way through primary school. Artwork the … Continue Reading year 3 Art lesson – watercolour and drawing using Leon and the Place Between
Year 2 Art lesson: making newspaper animal models This is a very simple art/science topic exploration lesson using just newspaper and tape, to encourage children to explore and share their … Continue Reading Confident Creators
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