Creative Arts

Art brings out the creativity in children and it is also a great subject for building enthusiasm and excitement.

Wire sculpture, pottery, collage, mosaic and textiles are all used within school. Acrylics on a Sunset Theme.

At Berkhampstead even the very youngest children enjoy making things and painting.As they progress through the school, we introduce the concepts of craftsmanship, design and project management.

Those with particular talent are prepared for Art Scholarships to their senior schools and achieve a high success rate.

Links are made across the syllabus, as in a recent Year 4 project which looked at Shakespeare's Ophelia, see picture.

Our fantastic Art Studio is light and airy and has a wonderful range of specialist equipment. It is always buzzing with the sound of eager artists.

Prep pupils have been making endangered animals from clay for a project related to David Shepherd's art. Many entered a poster design competition and twelve successful Year 4 artists travelled to London to see their 'Tomorrow's World' Art displayed in the Natural History Museum in London - well done to all of you! Selection of posters.

Celia Smith was 'Artist in Residence' in the Autumn Term for two days and showed the children how to make birds, create leaves, flowers, snails, caterpillars and butterflies from a variety of wires. Telephone cables, copper coil and an assortment of garden wires were used to great effect to make a super sculpture on the wall outside the entrance to the Prep building - see below.

Art Gallery