New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre

A showcase of the visual arts by pupils at @NewSilksAcademy @extoltrust and 'New Silksworth Academy Arts Award Centre'
Art Lead/Arts Award Adviser: @Mrs_Merrie

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

Yr 1 children @NewSilksAcademy have made a fantastic start on their sculptural project 🐦‍⬛
🪶 experimental mark making
🐦‍⬛ observational drawing & close study
🪶 exploring the relationship between drawing & making (2d to 3d)
@amazing_muggle @MrsThornton_NSA
Inspired by @accessart

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

It was lovely to have a visit from Mrs Simpson and some of the children who attend after school drawing club. They were very proud to share their drawings with me. 👏 #WeAreCreative
@NewSilksAcademy

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

🙌 @NewSilksAcademy
🙌 @TrThorntree
🙌 @EldonGroveAcad
🙌 @RossmereAcademy
🙌 @springwell_sch

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

Working in partnership with the wonderful staff and children across @extoltrust has been amazing! 🌟 I am proud to say that through our Arts Award Centre over 180 children achieved an @ArtsAward this academic year 🌟 Well done to all involved.. you made a difference!! 💙 #WeAre

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

...a fantastic achievement and very well deserved! 🎉🙌 #WeAreCollaborative @extoltrust

[Eldon Grove Academy @EldonGroveAcad]

CONGRATULATIONS, GRADUATES!

Our Year 4 children received their Trinity College, London, accredited certificates for the submitted pieces to the @NSA_Arts after school today. A massive achievement for our children. They have produced stunning art work!

cc:@extoltrust

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

What joy! Working with textiles is both educational and playful. The children of today are the textile designers, colourists, knitters and artists, painters and weavers of the future🧵🪡 and #WeAre laying the foundations 😊 @NewSilksAcademy
@extoltrust

[Mrs Merrie EYFS @Mrs_Merrie]

'The magic of the loom' is in Nursery @NewSilksAcademy
#WeAreDeveloping
🧵 fine motor & hand eye coordination
🧵 awareness of textiles
🧵 vocab: yarn, loom, fibre, weave, cloth
🧵 understanding cloth is a made material & clothes are made from it
#EYFS #whereDTbegins
@extoltrust

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

Children @NewSilksAcademy really enjoyed sharing their sketchbooks and talking about their fantastic artwork today #WeAreProud ☺️

Thank you to @LTLC_lana for your time, advice and guidance
#WeAreCollaborative

Every Child Is An Artist
#continuousimprovement

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

What beautiful responses to flowers! ...and the 'Stick flowers' are just lovely 😍 created through opportunities to explore resources and create freely! How focused and proud they are 😊
#WeAreCreative

[Mrs Merrie EYFS @Mrs_Merrie]

Nursery @NewSilksAcademy explored flowers today, looking closely & drawing what they saw. One child made a flower using a stick she found in the garden, carefully wrapping the stick with pink thread and wool. Very soon, her friends joined her. 💐
#TimetoBloom #EYFS
#WeAreGrowing

[Mrs Merrie EYFS @Mrs_Merrie]

This week, we welcomed new children to nursery & read 'Hello Friend!', a beautiful picture book about kindness, empathy, & friendship. We created representations of ourselves, friends, & family.
"I'm so big and tall now"
#WeAre Creative Compassionate
#PSED #EYFS @NewSilksAcademy

[Mrs Merrie EYFS @Mrs_Merrie]

Nursery were inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe's 'Sky Above Clouds'. Children worked together using their own choice of media & materials to create a large-scale piece of artwork, which they proudly displayed. ☁️☁️🛩💙
@NewSilksAcademy @NSA_Arts
#WeAreCollaborative #WeAreCreative

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

@ArtsAward We love blossom painting 🌸
https://t.co/son0apJzx8

[Mrs Merrie EYFS @Mrs_Merrie]

Nursery children have enjoyed creating spring pictures inspired by our exploration of blossom. 🌸
...and they are just beautiful.
#WeAreCreative
@NewSilksAcademy
@extoltrust

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

It warms my soul when I see our youngest children enjoying opportunities for free artistic exploration. Today, this 2 year old was completely absorbed, just painting a cup. Nobody existed for that moment in time. Beautiful 😍
#WeAre
@NewSilksAcademy @extoltrust

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

How can we use shape, line, and colour to make collages inspired by fauna and flora? 💚
Fantastic collage artwork by Year 1 inspired by artists including Eric Carle, Joseph Redoute, and Jan Van Kessel. Each beastie certainly is unique! 🫣 🪲🐞🪳🕷🦟
@NewSilksAcademy @extoltrust

[Kimberley Thornton @MrsThornton_NSA]

🪲Minibeast Collage 🪲

First we layered paint on sugar paper with different colours and textures to add depth. We then cut out shapes to match our insect samples.

Results speak for themselves. Every single one is as unique as the artist!

@NewSilksAcademy
@extoltrust
@NSA_Arts

[Eldon Grove Academy @EldonGroveAcad]

ARTS AWARD

A huge ‘thank you’ to @Mrs_Merrie for spending yesterday and today assessing our Y4 pupils’ art work for the @ArtsAward. We can’t wait to share the outcomes with the children!

cc:@extoltrust

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

...children @eldongrove were also inspired by literature. One child said they enjoyed exploring and "using charcoal to create the mood and atmosphere" in response to the nonsense poem 'Jabberwocky' 🖤 @ArtsAward

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

Yr 4 pupils @EldonGroveAcad completed Still Life projects and 'discovered' so much in the process. It has been wonderful to observe the creative journey and hear the children talk so passionately about their work and what art means to them.
#partnership @extoltrust @ArtsAward

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

Nursery enjoyed playful exploration of materials, processes & ideas to create spring pictures. Nurturing dexterity skills, promoting an early understanding of visual literacy, & building confidence in their ability to make a personal, creative response to a stimuli. @accessart

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

Year 2 children explored observational drawing and experimental mark making in response to natural forms.
Playful exploration of media (watercolour, brusho, & wax resist) and thinking about how composition can be used, has created stunning Spring artwork!
#InspiredBy @accessart

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

This is wonderful! The light, dark, tone and shadow have been captured beautifully 😊

Exploring still life in Year 4 @NewSilksAcademy 🍶
@extoltrust

[SarahTaylorNSA @nsa_taylor]

I just had to share this amazing piece of art from a Year 4 student. She has really blown me away with her ability to create texture with shading! @NewSilksAcademy 🎨🖌️

[New Silksworth Academy Arts and Arts Award Centre @NSA_Arts]

Flower Pounding in Early Leaners EYFS @NewSilksAcademy
Pigments in flowers make nature beautiful and attract pollinators, but we can also use them to make art. Today, we noticed that sometimes, the colour transferred was not as expected. 🔨🌸
#ScienceForces #DTTools
@extoltrust