EYFS Expressive Arts and Design

Mount Carmel
Catholic School

Expressive Arts and Design

Our EYFS Curriculum

'I have come so that they may have life and have it to the full.'
Mark 10:10

Mount Carmel Values

Our aim is for every child to leave here an Ambassador of Christ.
Our values are deeply rooted in the high expectations that we have of each child in the school. Our Values permeate across the school through children's learning, friendships, behaviour and leadership.
Our values come from the Church.

C - consideration
H - helpfulness
U - unity
R - respect
C - commitment
H - honesty

Our British Values

Our children learn about our British Values through 5 areas. These are discussed at whole school liturgies and during lunch times. We are committed to serving our community, with the strong belief that we are one school for all.

Our Power Values

Our aim is for every child to leave with the power to make a positive change in the world. Through our subjects there are five themes that we believe are integral with teaching children how to become powerful adults.

We ensure that these themes run through our subjects. Children learn about 5 areas of power - Education, Religion, Resources, People and Legacy.

cHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE LEARNING

Playing and Exploring
Children investigate and experience things and 'have a go'. Children who actively participate in their own play, develop a larger store of information and experiences to draw on which positively supports their learning.

Active Learning
Children concentrate and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties. They are proud of their own achievements. For children to develop into self-regulating, lifelong learners, they are required to take ownership, accept challenges and learn persistence.

Creating and Thinking Critically
Children develop their own ideas and make links between these ideas. They think flexibly and rationally, drawing on previous experiences which helped them to solve problems and reach conclusions.

Unique child: Every child is unique and has the potential to be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.
Positive relationships: Children flourish with warm, strong and positive partnerships between all staff and parents/carers. This promote independence across the EYFS curriculum. Children and practitioners are not alone – embrace each community.
Enabling environments: Children learn and develop well in safe and secure environments when routines are established and where adults respond to their individual needs and passions and help them build upon their learning overtime.
Learning and development: Children develop and learn at different rates (not in different ways as stated in 2017). We must be aware of children who need greater support than others.

The development of children’s artistic and cultural awareness supports imagination and creativity. It is important that children have regular opportunities to engage with the arts, enabling them to explore and play with a wide range of media materials, the quality and variety of what children see here and participate is it in is crucial for developing the understanding, self expression, vocabulary, and ability to communicate through the arms . Repetition and deepen of their experiences are fundamental to their progress, interpretation, interpreting and appreciating what they hear respond to and observe give children an insight into new musical world, inviting musicians to play music to children and talk about it, attentively to music, discuss changes and patterns as a piece of music develop.

Area of Learning - Expressive Arts and Design

How you can help as parents

Our curriculum goal

To become a proud performer who can perform a song, poem or dance to an audience, retell stories with expression and confidence, play a range of percussion instruments correctly and with good rhythm.

To become a creative creator who can choose and safely use the resources they need to make their creations/designs, talk about what they have made and how they have made it.

Always be prepared!

Nurture your little one’s creativity by always having crafting materials or activities around, such as playdoh, paper, glue, clay, cardboard, instruments, a camera etc.

Get outdoors

Give your little one plenty of opportunities to be creative outdoors. Natural resources like leaves and twigs are ideal for creative play, whether that’s for making sounds, creating art, or using these in roleplay – the possibilities are endless.

Encourage mess

Getting messy creates long-lasting memories! It’s also a big part of the creative process so try not to worry about it, create areas in the home (or outside) specifically for messy creative play.

Allow time

Give your little one plenty of time and don’t rush them, creative ideas take time to develop. If they are immersed in a creative activity be sure to give them the time and space to see where it flows next.

Music

Play music every day. Hearing, making music and singing can have a huge impact on your child’s language and physical skills. Music has also been proven to have a positive effect on mental health – so it’s great all around!

Chat about it

Lastly, but possibly most importantly, chat with your little one and listen to what they say. Shared conversations are great opportunities for bonding and can be especially meaningful when they’re telling you about their ideas and interests.

nursery - Expressive Arts and Design

Creating with Materials

I can make marks intentionally in sand and using paint, chalk etc.
I can name and recognise the colours, red, blue, green, yellow, orange and purple.
I can draw on a large scale, a simple face to represent myself and a spider
I can print with objects, for example, vegetables, leaves, blocks

Being Imaginative and Expressive

I can join in with songs we use every day in the Nursery: daily routine songs, for example, days of the week, good morning song, goodbye song etc .
I can join in with Spider themed Nursery rhymes.
I can use my voice to make different sounds.
I am starting to develop my pretend play, pretending that different items represent different things.
I can pretend play with a baby.
I can show attention to sounds and music.
I can think about how a Spider moves and dance like a spider.

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Creating with Materials

I can express ideas and feelings through making marks and sometimes given meaning to the marks.
I can manipulate and play with different materials making simple models.
I can listen to music and use a pen to make marks representing the sounds that I hear.
I can scrunch and roll paper.
I can draw horizontal and vertical lines, squiggles and circles.
I can use pencils and paint to draw closed shapes with continuous lines freely.
I can manipulate clay – squeezing, pinching, making a small pot.

Being Imaginative and Expressive

I can explore a range of sounds makers and instruments.
I can sing songs and rhymes that we have been learning.
I can move and dance to music.

Nursery - Expressive Arts and Design

Creating with Materials

I can draw on a large scale with increasingly complexity and detail.
I can paint with sponges, brushes, twigs.
I can develop my own ideas; stick/make a collage.
I can join things together (boxes, card, paper) with glue or tape.
I can use boxes of different sizes and change the box into 'something'.
I can roll, pinch, pull, squeeze, shape, with play dough.
I can push bricks together to construct, sometimes talking about what I am making.

Being Imaginative and Expressive

I can remember and sing an entire song.
I can take part in simple pretend play, playing in the home corner using role-play equipment appropriately.
I can use small world toys to imagine, beginning to develop complex stories using animals, cars, play people and blocks.
I know how to make a variety of sounds using my body, for example, clap,
I can move and dance to a range of music.
I can understand that I cannot talk and listen at the same time.

Spring 1

spring 2

Creating with Materials

I can name the colours (pink, white, black, brown, grey).
I can mix colours together and talk about what happens.
I press objects into Play-Dough and talk about the imprint.
I can make imaginative 'small worlds' with blocks and construction kit.

Being Imaginative and Expressive

I can sing songs and rhymes.
I can listen with increased attention to sounds, developing my listening skills.