Expressive and aesthetic development
Let's make the music and dance
With a little bit of professional help, staff and children at Springvale Nursery Centre, St Luke's Nursery Class and the P1 class and nursery class at Mayfield Primary School, enjoy creating and performing their own songs.
Making art come alive
A practitioner used Monet's paintings to inspire children to create beautiful artwork.
Creative responses to music
Windows Media Player visualisations helped stimulate children's responses to music.
Creating video from still photographs
Using Photo Story 3 to create an exciting slideshow from digital photographs.
Creating an animated movie
Nursery children used playdough models and video software to create an animated movie.
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We're going on a bear hunt!
Children at Sanday School turn their 'Bear Hunt' adventures into art and music.
Using the expressive arts for learning
Expressive arts teachers supported staff in stimulating children’s powers of self-expression.
Exploring with paint
With staff encouragement, young children explore and discover what they can do with paint.
Taking creativity outdoors with transient art
Children at London Road Nursery School created art from natural materials and photographed the results.
Soundmoves - developing language through music and movement
Dalcroze specialist Sian Davies presented in-service courses for early years staff across North Ayrshire, incorporating music and movement.