Monthly Archive: June 2015

From Plymouth School of Creative Arts

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Jun

Connection With Small Art School Cambodia

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Y7 Students embarked on leading a new connection through a Skype conversation with The Small Arts School, in Cambodia. Following this first meeting, they were developing all sorts of possibilities about how to build a learning opportunity for all the children in our schools. Ideas included exchanging artworks, thoughts on building communities and learning language […]

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16

Jun

Artist Eswar Reddy works alongside students!

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Eswar Reddy is a contemporary abstract artist from Hyderabad, India, now based in London. He likes exploring the unusual aspects of human nature with a surreal twist. He was in school this week and taught some watercolour skills to our children, he talked about the primary colours and explored mixing them to see what would […]

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16

Jun

Planning A Whole School Performance

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A group of children from our Reception studio sung to an audience of over 100 this week. This all began with Shae teaching us ‘Down to the River to Pray’. Children had been enjoying performing to each other in the studio but they wanted a bigger audience, and they had set their sights on the […]

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16

Jun

Magical Bus Ride

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This term Reception have enjoyed exploring literacy, song, maps and journeys through the magical visits of a traveling fairy called Billy. Billy has left magical trails to clues and many letters with challenges for us. As he heads off on his new adventures, he had one last surprise… A trip around Plymouth in an open […]

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11

Jun

Smeaton’s Tower

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Year 1 started their topic on journeys by thinking about how people move about, into and out of Plymouth by sea. We excitedly walked from our school to the iconic Smeaton’s Tower to learn about the lighthouse and it’s importance. We had lots of fun inside the many rooms as we spiralled up the lighthouse […]

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2

Jun

Sharing Staff Making Projects

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Staff at Plymouth School of Creative Arts are creating practice-based research, where an inquiry through making explores the impact of making on the individual, and on the community. Working alongside the Cambridge Primary Review Trust, we are using data and evidence drawn from this to make meaning for the school’s understanding of learning, considering our next steps. […]

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