Dear Parents

This year Expressive Arts Week will run 23rd – 27th June 2014. The theme for this year is ‘Wild Animals’. This could be any creature from a tiny ant to an enormous lion! Children will be invited to participate in a whole range of art, craft and performance categories. The final day of competition coincides with the school Summer Fete on Saturday 28th June and on this day you will be able to see all of the Art entries that have been completed in school and find out who has won in all the different categories. There is one compulsory category – the Art/Painting category, which each boy will complete at school with Mrs Bright in their Art lessons.

Winners receive a badge and boys are encouraged to enter as many categories as possible. All entries should be children’s own individual, unaided work. The boy’s name, class and category should be written on the entry to avoid disqualification.

Please check the categories available overleaf, complete the entry form and return to Mrs Stoneman before Half Term.

Parent volunteers are also needed for the judging panels each day. If you are willing then please let me know on your son’s entry form. All parents are invited to attend any of the finals.

GRAND FINALS: Parents welcome to attend.

Poetry Finals: Monday 23rd June at 8.50am

Singing Finals: Tuesday 24th June at 8.50am

Musical Instrument Finals (Solos): Thursday 26th June at 8.50am.

Musical Instrument Finals (Duets/Groups): Friday 27th June at 8.50am

Creative Entries will be on display in our school hall and Food/Models Entries in Year One classroom on Saturday 28th June from 12pm. Come and find out if your son has won a badge and join in the fun at the Summer Fete!

Good Luck everyone!

Mrs Stoneman (Coordinator)

Entry Form

(Hand in by Friday 23rd May 2014)

On the chart below please list all of the categories that you wish to enter for Expressive Arts Week. You can enter as many as you wish. We would like all boys to enter at least ONE category. Remember you have the whole of Half Term to work on your entry – or you can start today!

If you are entering a duet/group musical competition then you must state on your entry the name of your partner/group and the instruments you will be playing. Thank you.

Name: Class:
Dear Mrs Stoneman,
I would like to enter the following categories:
Parents: I would like to be a judge and can attend Assembly on:
(Please tick if you can help us)
q  Monday 23rd at 8.50am
q  Tuesday 24th at 8.50am
q  Thursday 26th at 8.50am
q  Friday 27th at 8.50am
Signed………………………………………
Art Category
All boys will enter a picture in the Art category which will be completed in school time and displayed in the Hall ready for Expressive Arts Week.
Categories / Yr R / Yr 1/2 / Yr 3/4 / Yr 5/6 / Hand entries to:
Poetry Recital / Please find attached to this letter the poems that boys can learn if they want to enter this category. There will be class heats in the week before Expressive Arts Week and Finals on Monday 23rd June at 8.50am. Parents are welcome to attend finals in the Hall. (Reception-Year 6). / Learn at home
Own Poem Writing / Write your own poem using our theme of ‘Wild Animals’ for inspiration. (Reception-Year 6). / Hand entries to Staffroom by Wednesday 11th June
Own Story Writing / Write a story of your own which must be related to our theme ‘Wild Animals’. (Reception-Year 6). / Hand entries to Staffroom by Wednesday 11th June
Solo Singing
(Unaccompanied) / ü  / ü  / ü  / ü  / Practise at home. There will be heats in the week before Expressive Arts Week and then the finalists will perform on stage on the day.
Solo instrument
(Unaccompanied) / ü  / ü  / ü  / ü 
Duet or group Instrument / ü  / ü 
Boiled Egg Modelling*** / Boil an egg and decorate it within our ‘Wild Animal’ theme: e.g. You could paint, colour, decorate and dress it up, put it into a background etc.
Do not bring to school until home time on Friday 27th June and by 4.30pm. / Hand entries to
Year 1 classroom
on Friday 27th June and by 4.30pm.
***Top tip from a former parent****
To ensure that your boiled egg lasts longer and doesn’t smell: Boil the egg for 20-25 minutes. In the last 5 minutes, add lots of vinegar. Let the eggs cool slowly overnight before beginning modelling.
Decorate a pizza / Create a pizza, decorated and cut in your choice of style within our ‘Wild Animals’ theme. (Reception-Year 6) Do not bring to school until home time on Friday 27th June / Hand entries to
Year 1 classroom
on Friday 27th June and by 4.30pm.
Photography
Theme: ‘My favourite space’ / Take a photograph within our theme of ‘Wild Animals’. (Reception-Year 6) The children must take the pictures themselves, so cannot be in them! Only one picture per child. If printing yourselves then please no larger than A5. / Hand entries to Staffroom by Wednesday 11th June
Computer Art / Make a picture on the computer using any programme. Remember our theme is ‘Wild Animals’ and include this in your picture in some way. (Reception-Year 6). / Hand entries to Staffroom by Wednesday 11th June

Poems to learn for Expressive Arts Week 2014

Reception: / Year One:
Ladybird by Maria Fleming
Ladybirds all dressed in red
Strolling through the flowerbed.
If I were tiny just like you
I'd creep among the flowers too!
/ Duck by Meish Goldish
Duck in the water, quack, quack, quack!
Soft, white feathers on your back, back, back!
Duck in the water, splash and splish!
Dip in your bill and catch those fish!
Duck out of water, walk on land.
Your webbed feet make it hard to stand!
Waddle with your family, waddle in a pack.
Duck out of water, quack, quack, quack!

Year Five: / Year 3:
Cricket Song
by Solveig Paulson Russell
The leaves are falling one by one,
And all the earth says, “Summer’s done.”
All cricket eggs are tucked away
For hatching on a bright spring day,
And now it’s almost time to go
To find a niche safe from the snow,
But first I’ll sing this farewell song,
In praise of summer warm and long,
Filled with joy and cricket bliss
That I am glad I didn’t miss.
“I’m glad for summer’s moonlit nights
When I could feed on plant delights,
And for my hole deep in the ground
Where rest and comfort could be found.
I sing farewell to those good days,
And to kind Autumn’s friendly ways.
I sing farewell to summer fun –
Goodbye, goodbye to everyone.” / Garden Snake by Muriel L. Sonne
I saw a snake and ran away…
Some snakes are dangerous, they say;
But mother says that kind is good,
And eats up insects for his food.
So when he wiggles in the grass
I’ll stand aside and watch him pass,
And tell myself, “There’s no mistake,
It’s just a harmless garden snake!”

Year 4: /

Year 2:

Bear In There by Shel Silverstein

There's a Polar Bear
In our Frigidaire--
He likes it 'cause it's cold in there.
With his seat in the meat
And his face in the fish
And his big hairy paws
In the buttery dish,
He's nibbling the noodles,
He's munching the rice,
He's slurping the soda,
He's licking the ice.
And he lets out a roar
If you open the door.
And it gives me a scare
To know he's in there--
That Polary Bear
In our Fridgitydaire / Little Squirrel by Ethel Hopper
A little squirrel runs up and down
In our old Walnut tree.
All day he carries nuts away,
As busy as can be.
Mother says he stores them safe
For food when North winds blow;
I wonder how the squirrel knows
That someday there’ll be snow.

Year Six
The Cooper’s Hawk by Don Sands
He sits, tall, slim, silhouetted
against the evening sky.
Watching, silently watching
from his elevated woodland perch.
He flies briefly on silent wings
alighting again, his tall slim form
resting, watching, ever watching.
Then he flies off into the unknown
on those powerful silent wings
to haunts unseen, to rest again
silently watching, watching.
In his vigil he’s certainly
unaware of the debate
occupying other inhabitants
about his origin and that
of all living creatures.
/ He rests and watches.
Rests and watches
as evening advances.
How many evenings have advanced
since of the beginning of time?
How many of his ancestors
have rested and watched;
tall, slender, silhouetted
against the evening sky?

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