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Impact

Our intent and implementation of Creative Arts at The Parkside School has allowed us to develop students who are:

● Pupils who are engaged in their learning.

● Constantly challenged to express themselves creatively.

● Independent.

● Unafraid of failure because this isn’t a concept we recognise within the curriculum.

We also pride ourselves on delivering lessons that are:

Appropriately differentiated to create a truly inclusive program of delivery

Exciting, engaging and encouraging of student-led creation.

Broad-ranging, horizon opening and challenging.

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Creative Arts: Intent, Implementation and Impact Statement

Implementation

● Creative arts is taught as a discrete subject on a carousel rotation in each class for 3 hours per week. Art is consistently provided with 1 hour per week and the other hour is split in a carousel delivery format between Music, Dance and Drama Lessons. Each of these lessons will range in length to cater for the needs of our children and young people .

● Each of these specific aspects are also taught continuously throughout the curriculum each week. This may be seen through singing as part of the morning routine in our pre and semi-formal classes, or with art being used as a strategy for transition from lunch to afternoon lessons in our formal school. Students may choose to release some energy in a lunch break by practising dance routines on Just Dance, or may use role play to explore the themes in a book they are studying in Literacy. This explicit and inherent combination ensures a 360° wraparound for Creative Arts.

● All classes have access to a range of resources to help support teaching such as the online music program “Charanga”, which is a scaffolded system designed to support all young musicians from those who have no experience through to those who may wish to compose their own music.

● Lessons are delivered via a mixed ability whole class program, but extension tasks and scaffolded options are employed consistently to ensure appropriate levels of differentiation.

● Individual creative arts paths are consistently matched to half-termly themes so as to create a cross-curricular approach to delivery whereby each curriculum supports and reinforces the theme to ensure retention.

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Every lesson is sequential, meaning that students are regularly working towards a final project either for that day, or for the half term.

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Creative Arts Autumn 2 2024 - Senior: Lesson 1 (slides) - I can draw planets and use shading to show depth.

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Example of a Creative Arts half term plan

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Example of a Creative Arts half term plan

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Each half term the students will experience a combination of Creative Arts lessons all of which are centered around the whole school theme for that term.

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Creative Arts Senior MTP Summer 1: Heroes and Villains

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This is our overarching design for the delivery of every aspect of Creative Arts at Parkside.

Using our ethos of asking the students to remain Creative, Inspired, Curious and Experimental, our sequential program ensures that students have a well-rounded exposure to Creative Arts.

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Allowing our students to both watch and take part in live performances is vital to our provision. We work with local and national theatre companies, dance companies and galleries to both bring Creative Arts to Parkside, but also to get our students out into their community to experience the magic of live theatre and curated art.

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When they reach our senior department, students at Parkside will get the chance to gain formal qualifications in Creative Arts. Qualification providers such as Arts Award and AQA allow us to create bespoke programmes for our learners that they can take with them when they leave us.

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We nurture Curiosity through Inspirational teaching and the notion that there is no 'wrong' in your art. In turn, our students develop the confidence to be Experimental and the resilience to become their own Creative artist. As you can see from the graffiti as you walk into

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Creative Arts: Intent, Implementation and Impact Statement

Intent

The Parkside School believes absolutely in the positive effect of a robust, consistent Creative Arts program. With many of our students, the chance to express themself creatively is a vital part of their day to day lives, therefore as a school, we strive to develop a passion for creativity in our students through exposure to as many different stimuli, artists, genres and techniques as possible.

Living by the ethos that “There are no wrong choices in Art”, students are free to experiment and revel in the freedom that this choice allows them.

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We believe Creative Arts is for everyone. It builds confidence, a broader understanding of the world and a chance to express ourselves.

At Parkside we aim to develop an understanding of other artists, musicians and designers from a range of places and times, whilst allowing students to express themselves and share their thoughts and ideas.

Creative Arts should be playful and joyful. They should encourage independent thought, team work and imagination.

They can help to develop fine motor skills, emotive responses and artistic techniques. They do this by supporting children’s future wellbeing, self awareness and the chance to develop both a methodical and an expressive approach to tasks that could be applied to future experiences.

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At Parkside we aim to allow our students to experience the expressive nature of dance and its role in physical education and artistic expression. Different styles, techniques and genres are all looked at in this completely inclusive rotation of classes.

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Unlock the power of storytelling through drama. The chance to bring stories to life through role-play and experimentation is an integral part of our Literacy and Communication curriculum, but Drama is more than an academic tool. Through a rotation of classes, students will be able to devise their own work, study the work of other famous playwrights, and let their imaginations run wild, all whilst finding links to our termly themes.

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Music is at the very heart of Parkside and our classes are full of singing on any given day. With a rotation of practical music classes utilising the amazing Charanga online resource as well as live instruments, students have access to every resource they require to play, compose or just jam. Peripatetic music lessons are also available for individual students.

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From the simplest of pencil on paper creations, to whole class mosaics, our Art and DT allows students at Parkside to explore a wide variety of inspirational artists and styles, all linking back to our termly themes.