Well finally the mural was completed and is now hopefully safe up on the wall in its new home. The mural was a two day workshop with all 70 pupils working on the pictures that was based on habitats of animals around the world. We looked at desert, rainforest, polar, woodland and underwater. The kids used paint, collage, pastels and marker pens to work on large boards to create each panel. In total there were 5 panels. The children chose a school poem to run along the bottom of the panels that talked about being thankful for all animals. All in all, a lovely project.

For all you ghoolish kids that joined us at parkfield for our Zombie Workshop we'd like to wish you all a great Halloween! We had a great day facepainting and designing our own Zombie outfit to scare the pants off each other! Then did sketches to the soundtrack of Thriller... all made for a very spooky drama workshop... especially with all the falling off limbs!

We visited Warbstow primary last week and ran a 5 day workshop based on 'The Story of The Rainbow'! It was brilliant. The kids spent all week designing, creating and making puppets and costumes as well as learning a script and acting. On Friday we held a performance in the school hall which all family and freinds came to. It was a very full on week, and the kids got so much out of it! Creativity, Literacy, acting, art, PE, you name it they did it! Hope to back again in the new year!

 

Just finished a great workshop on The Victorians at Eastover Primary in Bridgewater with Yr6. 

The Yr6 had a day of art and drama where they looked at Florence Nightingale and learnt about her part in the Crimean War. The classes worked with our drama specialist to role play scenes from Florences life as well as use extracts from her diary as collage paper to create giant portraits. The day was a great day and we look forward to working with the school soon!

WOW!!! What a week! This week we've been at Stowford Primary again for a week long workshop working with Foundation to Yr6! 

Their school hall needed a new lease of life so we came up with a plan to have a mural that showed images from curriculum topics that all the year groups covered. The task was immense! We started with Foundation who did Ourselves & Our Family. Yr2 did Victorian Holidays, Yr3 did The Normans and Egypt, Yr4 did India and The Romans, Yr5 did Tudors and Great Wall of China and finally Yr6 covered Space and WW2!

The art work was done on boards that will have a poem running along the bottom. It was a brilliant week and we produced some really incredible artwork! Well done kids!!

Create have expanded our drama groups into the amazing new space in Paignton called Parkfield Youth Hub. We are so proud to be the resident drama group and are now running workshops every Monday and Tuesday night during term time. This new venue is world class standard and has a drama studio space to rival any in the country! 

Workshops are running for kids aged 7-17yrs and will aim to put on a show twice a year. Even if you've NEVER been part of a drama group before, acted or been on the stage, but have always wanted to give it a go, then these groups could be for you! They are fun, friendly and energetic.. If your interested to come along call Jo on 07962 848002

A great day today at Fairholme school in London. We made King Henry the Eighth and his Six Wives as a puppet Workshop! It was brilliant! We spent the day designing and making the Costumes for the puppets. Then creating them! The kids all ended up learning the names of all the wives and why and how they died. Last day there tomorrow, running an Ancient Eygptian workshop for yr4!

Art & Drama for Key Stage 1 - 2

'The Victorians'

Pupils will meet Florence Nightingale and learn about the Crimean War and what it would have been like to be Florence or a wounded soldier at that time. In the art they will create giant collages using extracts from Florence's diary to form giant portraits.

Rehearsals for the summer show of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory went smoothly as hoped! With the scenery in place and costumes nearly ready we just needed to have a couple more run throughs with all the children at the Brixham theatre. The show was to run for 2 nights and children were getting more excited by the hour. With all the colourful costumes to get into and props to get ready everyone was extremely busy preparing themselves.

Look out for more photos of the show to come! If you would like to be in one of our shows them contact us via the info on our website, we'd love to meet you!

Create artists worked with 2 groups of pupils from Westlands College and Paignton Community College to produce some amazing art work that would become part of 3 huge banners for the brand new Paignton library. 

Pupils were all part of the very successful 'Step Up Units - Foundation Learning Programme' that works to inspire young pupils who would normally struggle with many national curriculum subjects.

During the 7 weeks that pupils attended the art workshops, they learnt new art techniques and also how to plan and design as well as complete a finished piece of art work based on themes from the library.

A unveiling of the banners will take place in Sept 2011 at the new library and we hope they will remain there for years to come. All the pupils should be very proud!