AFRICAN ART EXHIBITION
This year, the focus of our annual art week has been African Art. The children have had the opportunity to work on a number of projects using a range of mediums. Thabani Nyoni, from Kultural Fusion, is a Zimbabwean artist and opened the event with an amazing dance, music and storytelling workshop.
Throughout the week, various local artists have worked with the children making African masks, weaving, painting, and modelling with clay. Africa’s diverse dance and music have also been the focus in our Music and PE lessons. They have explored traditional tribal dance movement and recreated African drumming sounds and patterns and performed call and response songs. In Design and Technology lessons, children also made traditional African food.
Sue Cracknell, a former Woolgrove Governor, talked to classes, showing photos and artefacts of her travels across Mali.
On Friday we held a celebratory Art Exhibition of all the work our children produced. We invited parents/carers, and a wide range of guests from the local community to share in this special event with us.
Lisa Hall, Art Co-ordinator said, “The standard was, as always, outstanding and clearly demonstrates how talented and creative all the pupils at Woolgrove School are. It has been a wonderful week and a huge learning curve for our children. As well as enabling us to meet and work with members of our community, it has also developed their awareness of global diversity”.