Art

Welcome to Art in 2024     

Introducing our two wonderful Grade 6 BPS Art Captains for 2024 Audrey L and Simar L.

Both Audrey and Simar have a real passion for Art and all things creative and bring terrific skills to share with our young artists at BPS.

Throughout the year Audrey and Simar will be presenting at Assembly, bringing new ideas to the Art program and helping, with their Art team, to keep the Art room in order with 101 small running tasks necessary to keep 430 young Artists busy creating.

We are enjoying and looking forward to another busy year of wonderful creativity in the art room. Throughout the school year, every class from Foundation to Year six enjoys a fifty-minute lesson in the purpose-built Art room. This room is part of our lovely old, original school house building. 

The Art program aims to provide a broad range of learning experiences that incorporate a skill-based program along with a lot of scope for individual creativity and expression. 

We all come to Art with different backgrounds, interests and skills. Originality, individual ideas and creative responses to visual challenges enables each student to be unique in their Artwork. 

In Art we do not have right or wrong but unique creative responses and expression using a foundation of learnt skills. 

In Art we explore the elements of art: line, shape, colour, pattern and texture… through the activities of drawing, painting, printing, collage, modelling, construction, threads, textiles and iPad artwork. Units of design on I Pads, relevant to different levels of the school, will be undertaken at different times of the year.

The themes we work with in Art often make links with the integrated units in the classrooms; sometimes these are whole school Art themes/units, at other times a special event or occasion is our focus across different levels of the school.

Every activity aims to develop children’s skills, while developing an understanding and knowledge of materials and techniques. Throughout the year we will be referring to a range of styles and artworks from ancient to modern times. 

Developing a working knowledge of multicultural and indigenous design is a feature in the children’s units of artwork. As a multicultural school we have so many cultural backgrounds, each with their own unique tradition. In Art we celebrate and share these traditions.

As the children continue to develop their skills in Chinese Mandarin, so too in Art; we focus on developing our knowledge of Chinese artworks incorporating elements of Chinese techniques and styles in Art. Through these cross curricular links, the children will be introduced to art and design work from Chinese Art and many cultures from around the world. This builds a broad knowledge of the many rich and varied wonderful influences in Art that we enjoy in our Art world today. 

Art is about having fun and working with our friends to share our ideas and learn from each other too. Art can be an individual creative activity and a collaborative activity using shared skills and talents. 

Art can and is messy! To protect your children's uniforms please supply them with a long sleeved, named Art smock which will be kept in class tubs in their room. We are encouraging the children to bring their smocks as soon as possible so that we can start painting with acrylics and watercolours. Acrylic paints do stain especially blues, reds and purples, so smocks are important. Junior grades tend to work more with watercolours which are less messy and more easily removed from clothes ....but again sometimes stain too..... so smocks are best worn in Art.

At Blackburn Primary School we take great pride and pleasure in sharing and celebrating the children’s beautiful and unique Artworks as they develop their skills and individual creativity. Art is an ongoing creative journey, for every student, as we learn about our world and respond to it creatively.

Through Art we develop a lifelong interest in appreciating the beauty and application of so many skills and visual elements involved in creating, making and designing our individual artworks.

I look forward to sharing your children’s creative journey this year.

Mrs Liz Dixon.

Art Teacher

Coordinator of Specialist Programs 

Blackburn Primary School