The Arts
Blue Gate Fields Junior School is a Gold Artsmark school.
Artsmark commented:
The Arts pedagogy and provision at Blue Gate Fields Junior School has been well developed and embedded in your ‘Golden Threads’ and evaluative talk approach over a number of years. You clearly link arts and culture to wider learning opportunities for children so that they can apply their arts learning in a wider context, for example through visits pre-pandemic to Westminster Abbey or through arts projects that include cross curricular links to humanities and science.
All teaching staff understand the ambitions for arts and culture, and are engaged in developing these across the whole setting. Through your talk for learning approach children take ownership of their engagement and personal progression within the Arts and you develop the voice of children by involving them in planning and delivering authentic arts and cultural experiences, for example your Year 6 children plan and curate your end of year exhibition. You have established arts and cultural provision that makes sure all children have opportunities to perform, see live performances, and to create and evaluate artworks in a range of media, for example through your pottery room, music studio, visiting authors and work of the drama therapist. Your specialist arts teachers provide in house CPD and you are using arts and cultural professionals and organisations to support the delivery of quality provision.
You have a clear understanding of, and commitment to, equality of opportunity to arts and cultural experiences ensuring every child can access the full arts curriculum and visits.
Artsmark commented:
The Arts pedagogy and provision at Blue Gate Fields Junior School has been well developed and embedded in your ‘Golden Threads’ and evaluative talk approach over a number of years. You clearly link arts and culture to wider learning opportunities for children so that they can apply their arts learning in a wider context, for example through visits pre-pandemic to Westminster Abbey or through arts projects that include cross curricular links to humanities and science.
All teaching staff understand the ambitions for arts and culture, and are engaged in developing these across the whole setting. Through your talk for learning approach children take ownership of their engagement and personal progression within the Arts and you develop the voice of children by involving them in planning and delivering authentic arts and cultural experiences, for example your Year 6 children plan and curate your end of year exhibition. You have established arts and cultural provision that makes sure all children have opportunities to perform, see live performances, and to create and evaluate artworks in a range of media, for example through your pottery room, music studio, visiting authors and work of the drama therapist. Your specialist arts teachers provide in house CPD and you are using arts and cultural professionals and organisations to support the delivery of quality provision.
You have a clear understanding of, and commitment to, equality of opportunity to arts and cultural experiences ensuring every child can access the full arts curriculum and visits.