Maple Arts Weeks

The theme across the school this year is 'Wonderful World of Knowledge'.

This means every class has been given a different subject from the curriculum to explore, interpret and represent through art!

Our subject is PE. During our exploration of PE, we will be focussing on dance.

Ballet is a traditional form of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. Often, you may see ballet mixed with contemporary dance moves - these performances often look less traditional and move away from traditional ballet clothes.

Today Maple class had "An introduction to ballet" class. 

In Maths later, they used some of their ballet moves in their use of symmetry.

Acorn Class- Arts Week- Ballet

Continuing our learning linked to our Arts Week 'Swan Lake' we focused on created pieces of art linked to ballet. The children used their fine motor skills to thread the lace through a ballet shoe. We created ballerina figures to create our own stories.

We explored the different colours we could create using water colour paints, around a ballerina silhouette.

We used paint to print with our hands to create a ballerina tutu.

Miss Dadds taught us some basic ballets movements. We learnt how to perform the different ballet positions. We enjoyed learning how to describe movements in French, such as plié and jete.

We learnt about the Russian artist Kandinsky, we recreated his work using circles of different sizes.