Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Art, craft and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity. A high-quality art and design education should engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. As pupils progress, they should be able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design. They should also know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation. National Curriculum for Art & Design, purpose of study
Here is a short film we made for ArtUK about the sculpture, Draped Seated Woman (Old Flo) by Henry Moore. The sculpture is particularly important to our community within Tower Hamlets.
Year 1 Steam Day: Bath Bombs and Salt Paintings
Year 1 had an exciting and creative STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) Day, filled with hands-on learning and lots of fun! The children explored science and art by making their own bath bombs and creating beautiful salt paintings. Making...
Roll Up, Roll Up
There was a special circus in school today... Embracing Arts visited us, and amazed us, with their sensory performance and wonderful singing. There were sparkly things, shaky things, scented things, and lots of immersive things. The circus was lots of fun, and we all...
British Science Week: Steam Day
Yesterday morning, we celebrated our annual STEAM day by immersing pupils in various Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths activities across years 1-6. There was an array of activities ranging from building bridges, photo-frames and rockets to making a...
Chinese New Year!
We have doing lots of fun activities while learning about Chinese New Year. We made Chinese Lanterns, Used black paint to write some Chinese Calligraphy numbers, Created a paper mache Chinese dragon to do some Chinese dancing and we got to try some fortune cookies and...
Arts Award Explore
Congratulations to this year's cohort of Arts Award Explore graduates. The children learned about the work of different artists, visited an artists studio, created work and held an exhibition for their families. Here they are with their certificates from Trinity...
The Fox and the Star
We were very grateful to receive a beautiful limited edition print by Coralie Bickford-Smith, sent to us by Artsmark, Arts Council England. It's an illustration from the book of the same name by Bickford-Smith. Year 1 enjoyed listening to the story and then looking...
Hamilton Class learn together and play together!
Our day is very busy. We start with early morning learning at 8.45 am, we then move swiftly on to the register, followed by phonics, then guided reading and then literacy. Phew! We then stop have a good run around outside or play inside at the many activities. After a...
Poplar Consortium Exhibition
The Arts Council visited the Bow Arts Poplar Consortium Exhibition this week, to learn about the different art projects that have happened in our school, and other local schools, over the past ten years. It was fun to spot Lansbury Lawrence, and to see the different...
Arts Council
The new arts council cohort met today. We discussed the role and responsibilities, alongside the fun creative opportunities planned for the rest of the year. The new team are raring to go - watch this space to see their ideas for how they would like to make the arts...
Yinka and Robbins Art Exhibition
Thank you to all the families who came to the art studio today to visit an art exhibition of their children's work. Yinka and Robbins classes have been working with artist Amy Leung over the past term as part of this year's Bow Arts project. They have explored...