St Andrew's Church of England Primary School
St Andrew's - a Good Samaritan School (Luke 10: 25-37). Making a difference, with faith, hope and love so all can flourish.
What is Performing Arts?
Performing arts is the study of the art around us to gain knowledge and understanding. Performers do this by researching, practising techniques, performing, asking for feedback and improving their work. At St Andrew’s we believe everyone is a performer. We encourage performing as much as possible and we provide as many opportunities as we can to our students.
Performing Arts Lead: Mrs Chirara
Our performances so far this year
Some of our children from years 3-5 performed in the Diversity show at the Halls. It was an absolutely fantastic performance, the children did a brilliant job and I am sure that parents also enjoyed the show.
To celebrate Christmas, some of our children from the choir went along to St Johns Church to sing along with the music school. The children then sang at an event at St Andrews Church called Carols by Candlelight. This was again another fantastic opportunity for our choir. They sounded beautiful.
Intent, Implementation & Impact
Intent
At St Andrew’s pupils will learn to develop a love of performing and the understanding that anyone can be a performer. This will be encapsulated through the exposure of quality performers within the curriculum and positive role models.
Implementation
We implement this through a progressive topic-led curriculum, enhanced by both visitors to the school and wider opportunities for the children to showcase their skills. As well as this, showcasing the children’s work allows the involvement of parents.
Evaluating our work
Children work hard on their performances and have the chance to self evaluate on how they could make them better.
Lindy Hop
Year 6 have been re-creating the Lindy Hop. They have evaluated their final performances.
Mexican Hat Dance
Year 6 have been doing some fantastic Mexican hat dances and have evaluated their final performance.
Impact
It is clear that enjoyment of performing is instilled in the children at St Andrew’s and the encouragement of teachers allows this to blossom.
Extra-curricular Performance Opportunities
These are year group and term dependent
Key Stage 1 Choir (Teacher - Miss Adams)
Key Stage 2 Choir (Teacher - Mrs Chirara)
Dance Club (Teacher - Mrs Chirara)
Cheerleading Club (Teacher - Mrs Chirara)
Performance opportunities can include the following:
Diversity
Sing for Christmas
Singing in the halls
Christmas carol concerts
St Andrews Got Talent
Strictly St Andrews
Various outings to secondary school performances
Performing at secondary schools
Summer carnival
School concerts
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