Arts Council
The Arts Council at RPS are responsible for helping to make decisions about how all of the Arts subjects such as art, music, dance and drama are taught and enjoyed at our school.
We were awarded the prestigious Silver Arts Mark Award for our commitment to teaching the arts and are now our our journey towards Gold.
Arts Council 2023-24
This year's Arts Councillors are:
Red Class –Millie and Damien
Orange Class - Alice TS and Negan
Yellow Class – Barnaby and Rachel
Purple Class – Tyler and Jacob
Green Class - Macie and Darcy
Blue Class - Frankie and Sriyan
Meeting Minutes
Art Council Meeting Minutes
Date of meeting: 26/5/23
Present:
Red –Poppy and Kasper
Orange- Bella and Dylan
Yellow– Cooper and Kadija
Purple– Sultaana and Amelia
Green- Aedan & Safa
Blue- Charlie
We discussed:
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Art council impact We looked back at all the actions that Arts council have suggested since September and celebrated the fact that we had made a huge impact as most of these have become a reality… herd in the city, more lunchtime clubs, more practical work in our lessons, more competitions, more freedom and time in the form of Fabulous Fridays! The children felt ‘the teachers seem to be teaching themselves about art’. Fabulous Fridays We shared our views about how Fabulous Fridays are going…
‘I like it because we do whatever we want.’ The best bit is having fun!’ ‘Art all day is my dream thing.’ ‘Sometimes I like it being totally free but sometimes a theme is good as it helps you with ideas.’ ‘I love expressing my feelings.’
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Actions for next meeting:
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· Minutes to be shared with Mrs Watkins to put on website · Share this with Mr Owen. |
Date of meeting: 14/4/23
Present:
Red –Poppy and Kasper
Orange- Bella and Dylan
Yellow– Cooper and Kadija
Purple– Sultaana and Amelia
Green- Aedan
Blue- Freya and Daisy
We discussed:
Herd in the city We discussed the timeline for the Herd in the city exhibition and how the process works. We continued to work on our elephant – taking it in turns to paint sections and transfer the design onto the sculpture.
Actions for next meeting:
· Minutes to be shared with Mrs Watkins to put on website · Deliver elephant next week!
Date of meeting: 31/3/23
Present:
Art and School Council
Special guest: Florence (designer of elephant)
We discussed:
Herd in the City We discussed possible names for our elephant. The council made lists and Florence helped pick a name and organise a blub about our elephant. Name Shortlist Daisy Be yourself Joy Positive Name: Joy Blurb Our elephant was designed to make people smile and to show how proud we are to be part of Rochford Primary School. The positive messages will cheer people up if they are having a bad day and help them to develop a growth mindset. We hope our elephant brings joy to everyone!
Actions for next meeting:
· Minutes to be shared with Mrs Watkins to put on website · Email to be sent to tell organisers the information and name.
Date of meeting: 26/1/23
Present:
Red –Poppy and Kasper
Orange- Bella and Dylan
Yellow– Cooper and Kadija
Purple– Sultaana and Amelia
Green- Aedan and Lacey
Blue- Freya and Daisy
We discussed:
Posters outside school Mrs Fettroll explained that our school Art governor came to visit the school before Christmas and pointed out that the Eco posters outside school were looking a bit tatty. I suggested the Arts Council could help. We talked about what they would like to see as they arrive at school and they decided that positive quotes would be a good way to start the day. We though of a variety of quotes such as ‘Be Brave’, ‘Be positive’, ‘You matter’, ‘You can do it’, ‘Keep trying’ and ‘Smile and the world smiles with you’. The councillors then made these into posters to display.
Actions for next meeting:
Minutes to be shared with Mrs Watkins to put on website Mrs Fettroll to organise the posters being displayed.
Date of meeting: 13/1/23
Present:
Red –Poppy and Kasper
Orange- Bella and Dylan
Yellow– Cooper and Kadija
Purple– Sultaana and Amelia
Green- Aedan
Blue- Freya and Daisy
We discussed:
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Herd in the city We looked at the brilliant selection of designs by every child for our elephant. We discussed our favourites and decided we liked those with bright colours and positive messages. We shortlisted some for Mr Owen to look at and choose from.
Art clubs We went through the new art club ideas for Mrs Legon and the council agreed that they were great! We will review them later this term. |
Actions for next meeting:
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· Minutes to be shared with Mrs Watkins to put on website · Elephant to be painted. |
Date of meeting: 27/1/23 & 3/2/23
Present:
Red –Poppy and Kasper
Orange- Bella and Dylan
Yellow– Cooper and Kadija
Purple– Sultaana and Amelia
Green- Aedan
Blue- Freya and Daisy
We discussed:
Posters We continued to work on inspirational posters for outside our school. We decided we wanted to give people a growth mindset and positive start to their day when they see our posters. This continued the next meeting too.
Actions for next meeting:
· Minutes to be shared with Mrs Watkins to put on website · Finish posters and give to caretaker to display.
Meeting 18th November 2022
Meeting 30th September 2022
Summer term 2022:
Last term we looked at ways to enhance the arts provision in the form of clubs. We are looking at possible clubs we can offer next year. We completed our audit of arts provision and now Mrs Fettroll is writing our statement of commitment for our journey towards our gold Artsmark award!
The Arts council have chosen the following areas to focus on…
- Doing art in nature.
- More practical learning.
- Looking at how we can do more challenges and competitions.
- Displaying more art in school.
- Getting professional artists in to support and inspire us.
We have been working on the Arts council’s ideas for improving the Arts provision within the school. On Friday the 28th of February we invited a Drama group in to lead drama workshops within the school. Also the teachers have been working hard to design a new and exciting curriculum with ‘Creativity’ as one of the key drivers. They have produced a new timetable for September 2020 which timetables more Art and Design & Technology lessons.
