EYFS Expressive Arts and Design

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.

nursery - Expressive Arts and Design

Creating with Materials

I can free paint an idea and talk about it.
I can draw an object – drawing a plant/tree.
I can talk about what happens when I mix two colours.
I can talk about how I can make tones/tints of colour.
I can decide what I want to use to make models and collages.
I can build for a purpose with a range of construction equipment.
I can use natural materials to create natural patterns/pictures.

Being Imaginative and Expressive

I can sing the melodic shape (for example, up and down, down and up) of familiar songs.
I can remember and sing entire songs.
I can sing loudly and quietly using my ‘singing voice’.
I can make up stories when playing and concentrate for more than five minutes.
I can recreate a story with small world equipment.
I can talk about the music/sounds that I have listened to.
I know how to clap and repeat simple repeated patterns.
I can recognise and name familiar musical instruments (tambourine, maracas, bells, triangle, xylophone).

summer 1

summer 2

Creating with Materials

I can cut dough using tools such as scissors, blunt knives, cutters.
I can draw with a pencil on a small piece of paper, adding finer details to my work.
I can use colours to express feelings of happiness, sadness, fear.
I can talk about what I like about my designs and what I'd like to change.
I can use masking tape, sticky tape, hole punchers and string to join and fix things together.

Bing Imaginative and Expressive

I can create my own songs, or improvise a song I know.
I can perform my favourite song in front of a small group.
I can take on a role within 'role play' talking about who I am and interacting with a peer.
I can play instruments in different ways, dynamics (loud/quiet), tempo (fast/slow).

reception - Expressive Arts and Design

Creating with Materials

I can draw a self portrait.
I can use colours for purpose.
I can draw bodies of an appropriate size when representing my family.
I can use different size brushes, selecting fine brushes to add detail.
I can develop simple patterns by printing with objects using a range of materials.
I can use paints and paintbrushes to make a range of marks - dots, zig zags, wavy, dabs.
I can return to and build on previous learning, refining ideas.
I can adapt a construction to achieve a desired outcome.

Being Imaginative and Expressive

I can sing in a group or on my own, matching the pitch or following the melody.
I can request a favourite song/hymn.
I can sing along to favourite songs/hymns.
I can develop storylines in my pretend play.
I can develop storylines through small-world or role-play with peers.
I can create my own beats with musical instruments/body percussion.

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Creating with Materials

I can name the primary colours.
I can mix two colours to make the secondary colours.
I can mix colours and know the colour I want to create.
I can use a painting program on the computer or iPad.
I can create different textures and combine media to create new effects.
I can manipulate clay and use a simple technique to achieve a planned effect.
I can construct with a purpose in mind, using a variety of a resources.

Being Imaginative and Expressive

I know and join in with nursery rhymes and favourite songs.
I can make up my own songs.
I can take part in simple, pretend play often based on familiar experiences.
I can play cooperatively as part of a group to develop and act out a narrative.
I can listen to music and talk about how it makes me feel.

reception - Expressive Arts and Design

Creating with Materials

I can use larger scale loose parts to create.
I can create collaboratively, sharing ideas, resources and skills.
I can improve my models.
I can participate in collaborative, creative activities.
I can use rolled up paper, art straws, pipe cleaners to create structures and objects.

Being Imaginative and Expressive

I can change the song/rhyme to create a desired effect.
I can use enhancements to extend my imaginative play.
I can use fabric, boxes, tubes and joining materials to make props.
I can talk about my favourite musical song, and why I like it.

spring 1

spring 2

Created Materials

I can mix colours and know how to change the shade of colour.
I can weave with fabrics: orange netting, garden netting.
I can use a variety of art tools with greater accuracy .
I can draw into clay with simple tools.
I can choose materials to achieve a goal.

Being Imaginative and Expressive

I can move my body in a variety of ways to a song or piece of music
I can use different materials (larger sizes), to add to costumes, and make my own

reception - Expressive Arts and Design

Creating with Materials

I can independently select tools and techniques needed to shape, assemble and join materials.

I can work in a group to create a 3-D model, using materials such as paper to add extra detail.

Been Imaginative and Expressive

I can perform familiar songs/rhymes in a small group.
I can create more complex narratives in my pretend play, building on the contributions of my peers.

Summer 1

summer 2

Creating with Materials

I can explain how I created something to my peers, including why I chose a particular technique/material and how it is fit for purpose .
I can return to and extend my creative learning.

Being Imaginative and Expressive

I can retell parts of familiar stories through use of puppets, toys, masks, or small world.
I can engage in music and follow a story map, creating a musical accompaniment.
I can perform in a performance.
I can dance in a sequence of learnt moves.