dbis creative arts week 2016

DBIS Creative Arts Week

This years Creative Arts week will focus on a wide range of activitiesaimed to enhance students creativity, collaboration, critical thinkingand communication skills. Workshops and performances will betaking place inside and outside of school, during lessons and atbreaktimes.

We believe that all students shouldhave the opportunity to immersethemselves in the Creative Arts notjust as part of this week butthroughout their lives. During thisweek students will be provided withopportunitieswhich theymaynot getto sample in a classroomenvironment. TheDBIS Creative Artsweek is a celebration of the creativearts within our school and community.

There has been tremendous supportfrom parents and the DB communityand throughout the week we have lotsof exciting special guests who will beworking alongside many of ourstudents in a variety of contexts.

Each year group will participate in 2different workshops based on drama,dance, music or art. Each workshop

has been selected to enrich student experiences as well as being funand enhancing student learning.

Welcome to the



Students also have the opportunity during lunchtimes to joinadditional workshops led by external guests or teachers. These

include photography, Samba, HipHop dance and many more. In theSecondary PBL classes the studentshave also been preparing someworkshops which will be student led.

There will be many performanceopportunities during the week. Eachlunchtime there will be Rock Bandperformances and the Battle of theBand winners and runners up will be

performing at 'Hemingways'. Each breakime there will be a stage setup as an 'open-mic', a Secondary Drama Showcase, HouseCompetitions and special performances during assemblies.

On Thursday evening we are combining the Primary Art Exhibitonwith the Secondary Creative Arts exhibition. On display there will beArt work from across all phases, music, drama and danceperformances.

The DBIS Whole School Creative Arts week would not have beenpossible without the wonderful teachers, staff, parents and studentswho have contributed additional time and effort to prepare anddeliver exciting activities for our students.

Clare LambertHead of Creative Arts

DBIS Creative Arts WeekMain Events Information

Monday 13 June

Y4 Drama Games

Year 4 will be working alongside Nicole Malcolmess with anintroduction to Drama lessons focusing on collaboration and teambuilding Drama games.

Y6AR and Y6JBR

Samba teacher Cristyn Draper will bring alive the Globe through amusical Samba extravaganza.

Y4 Collage

Working alongside our artist in residence, Carolina Kollmann, theYear 4 students will be working on a collaborative piece of artfocusing on the art technique 'Collage'.

Y9B Hip Hop

Working alongside our Primary School Production choreographerand ex-dancer Sue Biggins, the students will be creating a classperformance based on the dance style Hip Hop.

Y8D Contemporary Dance

Trained dancer Rachel Ashcroft will introduce Year 8 toContemporary dancewhere they will learn to choreograph their ownpieces.

DBIS Creative Arts WeekMain Events Information

Tuesday 15 June

Y5 Printing

Jane Meredith a qualified Art teacher will be working alongside Year5 students teaching them the skills of printing, creating and designingtheir own prints.

Y2 Painting

Working alongside our artist in residence and local DB resident IreneHaagen, the Year 2 students will be working on a collaborative classpainting project.

Y6 Illustration

Our artist in residence Kitty Wong will work with Year 6 on anillustration project.

Y3 Graffiti Art

This is the first session by Tony Fryer introducing students to Graffitiart. The students will work within class designing their own Graffitiwalls and stencils.

Y4 Collage

Working alongside our artist in residence, Carolina Kollmann, theYear 4 students will be working on a collaborative piece of artfocusing on the art technique 'Collage'.


Tuesday 14 June continued......

Y9D Hip Hop

Working alongside our Primary School Production choreographerand ex-dancer Sue Biggins, the students will be creating a classperformance based on the dance style Hip Hop.

Y8B Contemporary Dance

Trained dancer Rachel Ashcroft will introduce Year 8 toContemporary dancewhere they will learn to choreograph their ownpieces.

Y3 African Drumming

Secondary Music Teacher Clare Lambert will work with each Year 3class introducing them to African Drumming and forming a classdrumming circle. Techniques such as call and response, layering andresponding to sound will form the workshop.

Y7 Chinese Drumming

EuanKilpatrickwhoworks alongsideour PrimaryChineseDrummingteam will hold a workshop for each Year 7 class on Chinesedrumming.

Main Events Information


Wednesday 15 June

Y1 Creative Concepts

Parent and local artist Irene Bang-Issack will work with the Year 1students and teacher, on creative concepts incorporating a variety ofart techniques into the final composition.

Y3 Graffiti Collaboration

Following on from Monday's session with Tony Fryer the Year 3studentswill create a collaborativeGraffitiwall, using knowledgeandunderstanding of Graffiti from the previous session.

GCSE Art Students

Fine artist and DBIS Primary Art EA Nilangi Thotawatte will beteaching our students how to create Batik Art. Thiswill be a useful anddifferent skill that the students may choose to incorporate into theirfinal GCSE coursework.

Y8I Contemporary Dance

Trained dancer Rachel Ashcroft will introduce Year 8 toContemporary dancewhere they will learn to choreograph their ownpieces



Wednesday 15 June continued..........

Y4 Collage

Caroline Kollmann will be working with the Year 4 students andteacher collaborating an art piece based on collage techniques.

Y9 and 10 GCSE Music Students Composition

Cristyn Draper will work with the GCSE music students for next yearfocusing on composition work which will assist their coursework.

Y6RA and Y6JB

Samba teacher Cristyn Draper will bring alive the Globe through amusical Samba extravaganza.



Thursday 16 June

Creative Arts ExhibtionCome and see the amazing talent displayed through Art, Drama andMusic at DBIS. The exhibition begins at 5.30pm and runs until 8pm.Drink and nibbles are served by the PTSA throughout the evening.

Secondary Drama ShowcasePlease be seated in the Globe by 7.20pm for our Secondary DramaShowcase.

Y1 Drama GamesHelen Kavanagh and Liz Tait will be leading the Year 1 studentsthrough some Drama Games. Working on confidence throughperformance, collaboration and creativity.

Primary and Secondary ChoirsA collaborative rehearsal for both school choirs as we prepare for theEnd of Year Awards Performances.



Friday 17 June

Secondary Creative Arts House Compeition

This event brings together Dance, Drama, Art and Music as teamswithin each house work collaboratively and creatively to prepare aperformance to present to the Secondary School.


DBIS Creative Arts WeekCreative Arts Exhibition

Family, friends and the wider Discovery Bay community are invitedto attend the Creative Arts Exhibition which will start at 5.30pm onThursday June 16.

Under the careful and creative eye of Sarah Sullivan and Tony Fryerour Art Exhibition curators; we are combining the Annual Primary Artexhibition with the Secondary Creative Arts evening this year for thefirst time ever to form a Whole School Creative Art Evening.

Our students across all phases of the school have been asked to selecta minimum of 1 piece of Art work which they created during theschool year and this will be displayed as part of the exhibition. Therewill be the opportunity for you to observe the transition of Art workfrom Kindergarten to GCSE.

CristynDraper and Euan Kilpatrickwill enhance the evening throughtwomusic stages. The students selected to perform are our Gifted andTalented Musicians who have participated at musical eventsthroughout the year.

To end the evening, the Secondary School have put together aDramaShowcase directed by Nicole Malcomess, starting at 7.30pm in theGlobe. We have a wonderful group of enthusiastic and talentedstudents from Year 7 to 11 who are greatly looking forward topresenting a mixture of scripted and devised drama performances toan audience. All of the work presented has been devised, rehearsedand directed by the students themselves.

DBIS Creative Arts WeekEarly Years

In Early Years fostering creativity is as much about encouragingattitudes of curiosity and questioning as about skills or techniques.Children notice everything and closely observe the most ordinarythings that adults often take for granted. Building on childrensinterested can lead to them creating amazing inventions or makingmarks on paper that represent for them, an experience or somethingthey have seen.

Encouraging children to choose andusematerials and resources in anopen-minded way helps them to make choices and to haveconfidence in their own ideas. Children experiment with media andmaterials finding out about their properties and modifying andmanipulating them. Expressive Arts and Design includes exploringsounds, patterns, movement and different tools and techniques andexplorations into the world of pretence, building on their experienceof the realworld and transforming them into somethingnew -whetherthrough role play,music, pretend play, block play or smallworld playor a range of other areas.

Mrs Laura Clarke

Thoughout the week the students will focus within their lessons on arangeof activities focusedon theCreativeArts, additionallyPE lessonswill incorporate an element of dance and ICTwill incorporate DigitalArt. Around the school there will be open opportunities for thestudents to be involved in during break and lunchtimes.

DBIS Creative Arts WeekEarly Years

Lunchtime Activities

Monday 13 June

Secondary Rock Band Performance - The Lim's

Tuesday 14 June

Chinese Drumming Experience

Wednesday 15 June

Primary Rock Band Performance - Rock Revolution

Thursday 16 June

African Drumming Experience

Each Lunchtime

During each lunchtime the playground provision will incorporate arange of activities for students to involve themselves in. The stagewillhave new and exciting props added, puppets will be available and ajunk and scrap heap formakingmusical instruments. Additionally theparent helpers will be leading Art activities such as printing,sketching, painting and collage.


Secondary House Creative Arts Competition

Friday 17 June

OnFridaymorning, all students in the Secondary schoolwill have theopportunity to represent their house in Dance, Drama, Visual Art orMusic, in our inaugural House Arts Competition.

With limited time andwithout teacher support, studentswill be askedto work collaboratively to fulfil a creative brief that will be given tothem that morning.

OurYear 10 studentswill act as student leaders during thepreparationandplanningphases.All housegroupswill showcase theirwork in theGlobe in front of a panel of carefully selected judges, who willultimately decide on a winning house for each category. The goal ofthe competition is to encourage all students to think creatively, workas part of a house teamwith students fromavariety of year groups, andto have fun!

Secondary House Competition


Primary and Secondary Lunchtime and Breaktime Workshops

Monday 13 June

Secondary Collaborative Graffiti Activity

Tony Fryer will work with our Secondary students on a large scaleGraffiti project. Students are invited to participate over lunchtimeto creative a Graffiti masterpiece!

Hip Hop

Sue Biggins will provide the Secondary students with theopportunity to experience some Hip Hop dancing. This workshopis open to all Secondary students on a drop in basis.

Clay Sculptures

Nilangi Thotawatte will introduce the Primary and Secondarystudents to work with Clay, moulding their own sculptures.

Tuesday 14 June

Marble Painting

Nilangi Thotawatte will provide an Art demonstration of creating Artpieces of work using Marbles to displace paint and create printdesigns.

Hip Hop

Sue Bigginswill provide the Primary and Secondary students with theopportunity to experience some Hip Hop dancing. This workshop isoen to all Secondary students on a drop in basis.

Lunchtime Workshops


Primary and Secondary Lunchtime and Breaktime Workshops

Wednesday 15 June

Laundromatte

Joshua Wong a free-lance motion-graphics designer and editor willhold workshops for Secondary students over lunchtime

Thursday 16 June

Charcoal Drawings

Using charcoal as a stimuli for sketching the students will learn howto create outlines, sketch and shade appropriately.

Lunchtime Workshops


Cross-Curricular Activities

PE Lessons

During Creative Arts week the PE department will be focusing onDance within each PE lesson.

ICT Lessons

ICT will use the Creative Arts Week to introduce the students todigital art. This will be a focus during each ICT lesson this week.

Secondary Humanities

The Secondary Humanities students will be showcasing theirprojects onTuesday 14 June during lessons 1 and 2 on the lowerfloor of our Secondary building.

Cross-Curricular Activities


Primary Instrument 'Petting Zoo'

To support our instrumental program and to enable our students tohave a go on a variety of instruments, each Primary lunchtime wewill hold an 'Instrument Petting Zoo'. All Primary students areinvited to meet with the DBIS Instrumental teachers and have a tryout on the different instruments.

Monday 13 June

Saxophone, Clarinet and Flute - Oliver Smith

Tuesday 14 June

Violin - Ethan Heath

Wednesday 15 June

Guitar and Bass Guitar - Steve Gardner

Thursday 16 June

Cello - Shelagh Heath

Friday 17 June

Trumpet and Trombone - Mark Willett

Primary Instrument 'Petting Zoo'


Lunchtime Performances

Each Primary and Secondarylunchtime there will beperformances from each of theBattle of the Bands competitors.Monday - Iris and Gravity 3Tuseday -The Lim's and RockinFever.Wednesday - MOE5 andHeadache.Thursday - Popshock

Battle of the Band Winners Performance Hemingways

The winners from DBIS Battle of the Bands and runners up willperform at Hemingways by the Bay on Monday 13 June at 7pm.

DBIS Musicians

There is an opportunity to hear our very talented DBIS studentsperform an array of music on the stages during the Creative ArtsExhibition on Thursday 16 June.

DBIS Secondary Drama Showcase

After the Creative Arts Exhibition on Thursday 16 June there will bea SecondaryDramaShowcase in theGlobe starting at 7.30pm. Pleasebe seated by 7.15pm.

Performances


A special thanks to the following:

Tony Fryer - Secondary Art

Nilangi Thotawatte - Primary Art EA

Nicole Malcomess - Secondary Drama

Euan Kilpatrick and Cristyn Draper - Primary Music

Gill Bredbury, Lucy Sealey and Daniela Poon - Primary Music EA's

Sarah Sullivan - Primary Teacher and Curator of the Art Exhibition

Clare Lambert - Head of Creative Arts

Workshop Leaders

Emma Philo, Nicole Malcomess, Carolina Kollmann, Sue Biggins, RachelAshcroft, Jane Meredith, Irene Haagen, Kitty Wong, Euan Kilpatrick, TonyFryer, Clare Lambert, Irene Bang-Issack, Nilangi Thotawatte, SCAD,Helen Kavanagh, Liz Tait, Cristyn Draper

Additional Support

Lok Chan - AV Technician

Stephen Suen - Head of Maintenance

The Maintenance Team

The PTSA

All DBIS Teachers and Staff for their flexibility and cooperation

Vanessa Ameresekere - Art work coordination

Parents - who assisted with the Art Exhibition set up

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