Art and Design
A Curriculum for Excellence asks teachers to think about their educational aims and values and their classroom practice. It will give teachers more responsibility to use their professional judgement and creativity within broad parameters.
Although the 5-14 curriculum will be with us for the immediate future, use this short Reflection Guide to help you think about adapting your classroom practice in accordance with the principles and purposes of A Curriculum for Excellence.
Creating colour football strips
Today’s problem for a Primary 3 and 4 class is to create nine different football strips from red, yellow and blue shorts and T-shirts. Watch how the pupils solved it.
Making a model from a picture
Primary 3 children work together using multilink cubes, mats and cards to create different models from pictures they are given.
Animating digital images
Creative primary 5 pupils work together to make a short animated film using a digital still camera and Textease Presenter.
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Photo opportunites in the school grounds
A digital photo competition encourages pupils to get out and explore their school grounds.
Building personal websites in MS Word
Using Microsoft Word, Primary 6 pupils create their personal websites including writing the information to go on them.
Editing photos and text with Appleworks
To get information to their twinned school these Primary 5 pupils use Appleworks software to make a web page with digital photographs, and text in different sizes, fonts and colours.
Making greeting cards using Appleworks
For their enterprise project Primary 1 and 2 pupils designed and made greetings cards with Appleworks software.
Making evacuee ID cards with digital images
Primary 7 pupils use a digital camera to create their own evacuee ID cards. It improves their knowledge and understanding of children's lives in World War II.
Recycling for music and art
Pupils at Roybridge Primary School re-used rubbish to make their own instruments, toys and artworks, and created a musical about recycling.
African culture inspires clean water projects
African dance, music and art inspired pupils at Lunnasting Primary School to explore the importance of clean water and to develop new local and international links.
An enterprising music and art project
Castlefield Primary School is embracing all the principles of Curriculum for Excellence with projects based around enterprise, music, creativity, and getting the local community involved.
Celebrating other cultures and nations
Pupils at Park School, Kilmarnock, held an International Day to celebrate multiculturalism. Watch the video of their activities.