Arts Council
2022 – 2023 Arts Councillors
Red –Poppy and Kasper
Orange- Bella and Dylan
Yellow– Cooper and Kadija
Purple– Amelia and Sultaana
Green- Aedan and Safa
Blue- Freya and Daisy
Meeting Minutes
Art Council Meeting Minutes
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.
