Zart Extra Term 2 2011
Inside Down & Upside Out
Black Hill Primary School
Arts Week is a unique biannual event at Black Hill Primary School where all teaching and learning across the school is focused on The Arts, both Visual and Performing, using creative and artistic pedagogies for an entire week.
Arts Week aims to promote within students a heightened sense of enjoyment and excitement, an increase in the knowledge and skills associated with particular art forms, the development of creativity and thinking skills, enrichment of communication and expressive skills and growth in personal and social development.
Features of Arts Week 2010
• Visual and Performing Arts workshops presented by artists within the school community, including teachers, parents and past students, and local artists, including: hip hop dancing, highland dancing and tap dancing… theatre sports, circus skills and puppetry…body percussion and jam sessions…Australian indigenous painting, drawing and printmaking, sculpture, ceramics and graphic design.
• Individual Class Projects with a Visual Arts focus and an emphasis on the work by a specific artist. These projects created a collaborative ‘Yard Art’ piece to be permanently displayed within the school grounds. One of these activities involved the Grades 5 and 6 students creating life-size sculptures of their limbs using clear packing tape as a casting material in response to work of Mark Jenkins. Using these packing tape casts, students explored the concept of installation within the school grounds, creating unusual scenarios and capturing these through photography.
• A ‘Kids Big Day Out’ was an opportunity for students to perform or demonstrate to an audience on one of the six stages set up within the school grounds. For example some students performed comedy acts and musical items and others demonstrated specific ceramic techniques and drawing skills.
• A Whole School Project involved each classroom to make a typical lounge room item from cardboard to contribute towards the furnishing of a Black Hill Primary School ‘Inside Down and Upside Out’ Cardboard Lounge Room. Each lounge room item incorporated a quirky twist with an unusual addition attached or uncharacteristic feature included. A floor lamp with human legs and a bookshelf in the form of a giant book are two examples of these.
• An evening exhibition of art works and music to share and celebrate students’ creative achievements during Arts Week with the school and wider community.
• An excursion to the Ballarat Art Gallery that involved students participating in three rotating artist response workshops (Sidney Nolan, Inge King and Peter Blizzard), experiencing a guided tour with one of the education officers and viewing the Reggio Emilia, “The Hundred Languages of Children Exhibition”.
• Dance Workshops carried out in classes that contributed towards a whole school dance presentation at the final assembly.
• All Literacy and Numeracy sessions focused on providing opportunities for learning through the arts. Prior to Arts Week the arts teachers organised a professional development session with classroom teachers to reiterate the value of creative learning and provided ‘starting points’ for arts based literacy and numeracy lessons.
Arts Week aspires to introduce new and exciting ways of thinking and learning by providing high quality educational experiences. It challenges a student’s thinking skills, problem solving, critical analysis and constructive evaluation whilst immersing them in creativity.
Jacqui White
Black Hill Primary School
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