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.
It’s mallet time!
In Forest School, Year 6 have been exploring different tools. This week we used mallets to make Tataki Zome; this is the Japanese art of pounding leaves and flowers to release their natural colours into cloth. The results were great, we loved how enthusiastic and...
Art Award Winner
We're thrilled to announce that Mrs Sellens has been awarded the Big Landscape Award for Innovative Curriculum Design in 2024's National Society for Education in Art and Design Awards! The NSEAD Awards recognise art educators who champion art, push boundaries and...
Drawing with Scissors
Henri Matisse described his cut-out art creations as 'drawing with scissors'. Year 1 had lots of fun exploring this technique, and the practical skill of collage, in their art lesson this week. We didn't use a pen, pencil, or paintbrush, instead a pair of scissors was...
Young Artists’ Summer Show 2024
Congratulations to Aliu in Year 6, whose brilliant portrait of Zaha Hadid has been selected for the Royal Academy Young Artists' Summer Show. He was very happy and proud to be selected, and it was well deserved as not only did he work hard during his art lesson, but...
Making Spirals
This week in our Bow Arts session with Katka we were creating spirals with pastels on a large scale. We were focusing on working collaboratively. Our spirals could overlap with someone else’s and then we could colour in the gaps. Some of us decided to try and mix two...
Another wonderful week in Year 2!
This week in English we have been planning our innovative story. We planned the story and we became story tellers. We shared our stories with everyone making sure to use sequencing language, conjuctions, adjectives and adverbs. We made sure we used our loud, proud...
Exciting week at Tagore Class!
On Monday afternoon an ice cream bicycle came to our school. It was so fun eating our ice cream and speaking to our friends. This week we are continuing with our story The Magic paintbrush. In Tagore class we have focused on showing emotions through our bodies and...
Learning Dispositions by the Arts Council!
This year the Arts Council have been working with a Bow Artist named Tom Berry. We worked with him last term to create a group of interesting panels based on our five learning dispositions. Our five learning dispositions are to be articulate, curious, reflective,...
Kahlo at the Courtauld Gallery
Kahlo Class visited the Courtauld Gallery yesterday. We explored the collection and took part in different activities connected to portraiture. We looked at portraits on ceramics and portraits within paintings. We looked very closely to learn how we could discover the...
Yinka Shonibare inspired sculptures
Artist Yinka Shonibare's work explores themes around heritage and cultural identity. Shonibare is a British-Nigerian artist who lives in our borough of Tower Hamlets. Today year 6 explored the bright colourful patterns of Ankara fabric through drawing, before turning...