Our Artsmark Goals
(what we would like to achieve by 2021)
- More Performing Arts clubs (update: Three new clubs this year - Drama, Keyboards and Culture Club)
- Opportunity to take LAMDA exams
- Take One Picture Week becoming an annual fixture (update: first took place September 2019)
- More Art and Design units showing progression through the school
- More Drama as part of English and Topic lessons to help our writing and to enable us to dive deeper into books
- More links with local art organisations, schools, artists and the community
- More regular staff training in Drama and Art
- Introduce Art, Music and Drama stars of the week
- Inviting Strathmore Year 2s to a Music Morning at Wilshere-Dacre
- Visiting local secondary schools to share arts experiences
- More regular use of a wider variety of artistic materials (clay, sculpture, paints, textiles, mixed media) (update: Feb 2020 - art made from plastic bottle tops made for our new quad area)
- More artistic and cultural experiences for every pupil (trips, visiting artists etc) (update: Jan 2020 - 2 artists working with Year 3, March 2020 - Y4 visiting Broadway Gallery, Letchworth)