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The Arts Policy
Every Child Matters is at the centre of our Arts Policy.
The Every Child Matters green paper identified the five outcomes that are most important to children and young people:
Be healthy
Stay safe
Enjoy and achieve
Make a positive contribution
Achieve economic well-being
When asked what they regard as their priorities, children and young people consistently reply that they would like more “things to do and places to go”.
Arts Policy Aims
Deliver the five outcomes – particularly enjoying and achieving and making a positive contribution
The Arts form a dynamic and aspirational dimension for all students.
To raise the profile of the Art within the school and wider local community. The Arts enable students of all abilities and backgrounds to achieve personal well- being, exam success and provide a realistic focus for further education and careers.
The Arts will form an enjoyable, essential and meaningful focus for spiritual, moral, cultural and social education. We will reflect and value young people’s own cultural expression and choices in all areas of The Arts.
Behaviour for Learning Policy
Positive Discipline Positive discipline does not come naturally to a small minority of our pupils. It is a skill that needs to be learned and refined. Arts teachers are the inspirational leaders who pupils admire and wish to imitate. Pupils mirror teacher’s outlook, both positive and negative.
The Behaviour Policy of the Creative and Physical Arts starts with uniform and planners. Uniform is checked at the start of every lesson before pupils enter the classroom. All pupils are required to ensure planners are out on desks before the lesson begins.
Arts teachers have the awesome power of infinite patience and equanimity.
Every incident is followed up positively maintaining the self-esteem of pupils and the Art teacher’s high status as a dedicated professional.
Our students are invariably attentive and conciliatory when spoken to in isolation and after the fact, usually ashamed/confused at having let a calm and patient adult down.
Positive discipline works to protect everyone, build respect and keep parents in the loop. A quick phone call home is worth a week of detentions. A request for future cooperation is worth a month of incident report sheets. Parents are always supportive if given information, hope for the future and are then thanked for their efforts. Some despair of constant bad news. Be the uplifting teacher who phones home to say ….. your son has real potential but is messing up at present….your daughter has been polite around school but rude in lessons…. your son is intelligent and must produce more homework.
Why The Arts are more important today than ever before
Fundamental Human Definition.
Tangible success for every child. Something for everyone.
Promoting behaviour in a negative world.
Risk taking to build confident, competitive achievers.
Understanding and fascinated tolerance through exposure and challenge.
Personal anchors in a drifting existence.
“ Works of art equip us for action. And the range for which they equip us is very nearly as broad as the range of human action itself. The purpose of art are the purposes of life. To invisage human existence without art is not to envisage human existence. Art, so often thought of as way of getting out of the world – is man’s way of acting in the world. Artistically man acts”.
Wolterstorff, Art in Action
Why The Arts are in the Curriculum
1. Arts develop a vast range of practical skills, knowledge and understanding and introduce children to an exciting world of illuminating experiences with opportunities to explore new ways of thinking and achieving success.
2. The Arts enhance the learning skills of creative problem solving, perception, review and resolution, skills that can improve empathy, initiative and an understanding of our dynamic and diverse society.
3. All pupils can find a tangible and meaningful success in this subject. This can raise their self-esteem and help them become more confident learners elsewhere.
4. Exploration, reflection and the celebration of ideas and imagination increase every pupil’s ability to approach challenges with a positive and confident outlook.
5. Many realistic college and career opportunities follow on from KS4 Arts courses. The skills developed in this subject also have clear applications in a visual, audio, healthy, performing and competitive world.
Wittgenstein wrote in the Tractatus: “ We feel that when all possible scientific questions have been answered the problems of life remain completely untouched”. It is these ‘problems of life’ that scientific enquiry cannot touch that art has the power and symbolic meaning to address.