About this curriculum

Art, craft and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity. A high-quality art and design education should engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. As pupils progress, they should be able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design. They should also know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation.

Artists Covered

Foundation: Frida Kahlo

Year 1: Andy Warhol, Georgia O’Keefe & Deborah Shapiro 

Year 2: Brian Pollard, Sheilagh Tacey & William Morris

Year 3: Alexandra Buckle, Stone Age

Year 4: Lucian Frued, Yayoi Kusama & Henry Moore

Year 5: Stephen Wiltshire, Clive Maddison & Ann Roth

Year 6: Picasso, Chila Kumari Singh Burman, Kumi Yamashi

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This Friday is Red Nose Day. Children can wear funny mufti or any other mufti (including PE kit) with a suggested voluntary donation of £1. We look forward to seeing your outfits!
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🎲 Dungeons and Dragons - Scene 2 The spotlight was on The High Society this afternoon; the guild had ventured into the woods three days prior after investigating the strange occurrences at Yellowdale ... but so far, they have found no evidence of mischief. That was until they awoke around their campfire to find a member of their party missing! The Society decided to follow Nisha's footprints and head west - after tracking her steps (and licking some sticks - who knew survival skills could be so entertaining?), Infernus made some keen observations and noticed that they were all being watched. Nisha suddenly started shouting for help! The group quickly dashed through the woodlands and discovered that Nisha had rather foolishly fallen down a trap; sensibly, the society remembered they had rope in their satchel and heaved Nisha to freedom. They are still being watched ... 🤯
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The book fair is all set up and ready for the end of the school day today. We have 4 copies of each book. If you do find that a book you want is sold out, let us know and we will order it in for you. Card and cash accepted.
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The book fair is open this morning until 8:30am 📚
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YEAR 5 PARENTS/CARERS Swimming starts on Monday. Children should wear PE kit on Mondays and normal school uniform (without a tie) on the other days. However, children will not be in trouble if they accidentally wear PE kit on the wrong day - it is a busy few weeks. Have a great weekend and see you on Monday.
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** Reminder **MVPS BOOK FAIR is on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next week! (11th/12th/13th March) 📚 📖 📕 8:00-8:30am and 3:05-4:00 each day!! Today, all children had a look at the books available to buy. We accept card or cash. The more you spend, the more the school earns back in rewards to spend on books for the school library. 📚 💙 We will have 4 copies of each book available to purchase and take away from the book fair. If the book is sold out, just let a member of staff know at the book fair and we will order it in for you. 😄 Thank you for your continued support. Have a wonderful weekend, Miss Harris.
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Hopefully in order 🙏 from Foundation to year 6, here are the winning stories from the whole school writing competition 💙💙💙💙 Well done to all of the children who took part in this wonderful event! ✍️ 🤓
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Year 6 really enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day yesterday and loved sharing their books with Year 3!
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Writing competition winners 🏆 ✍️ 💙😍 We received an amazing 55 entries for the whole school writing competition and each and every story was absolutely fantastic. Miss Harris spent over 2 hours reading through all of the stories and selected who she believed were the top 2! Miss Harris then passed these onto Mrs Gilbride and Mrs Paige who selected the winner for each year group. The winners of the writing competition are: 💙Foundation - Ottiline VB 💙Year 1 - Chloe S 💙Year 2 - Izzy R 💙Year 3 - Luke S 💙Year 4 - Arabella C 💙Year 5 - Lincoln J 💙Year 6 - Harland L All 7 children have just received their £5 voucher which they get to spend at the book fair next week!!! 💙💙💙
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Year 1 had a wonderful day celebrating all of our favourite books! 📚 This morning we had a visit from Year 4 who invited us to share the stories they enjoy - we explored comic books, non-fiction books and some classics! This afternoon we were visted by representatives from the Theatre Royal who came to share a special Animal Rescue story. The children had fun trying to spot Vinnie the frog!
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Foundation Stage have enjoyed celebrating World Book Day. We had a super story this afternoon which we loved!
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Lots of World Book Day fun in 3BM today!
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