Year 7 students were encourage to record their likes and dislikes for a stereo soundscape representing aspects of their identity. This was presented with a visual art work made up of overlapping acetate drawings projected onto the recording studio wall at their Identity Project performance to parents and friends in December 2008.

In July 2008, Thomas Tallis School was visited by a member of the Ofsted team who was interested in observing good practice associated with creative learning. We took the opportunity of asking him about his research and published this podcast on our website.

On the final day of Shine week, Welcoming the World featured a day of workshops designed to share experience, talent and skills achieved throughout the Creative Partnerships programme. Content generated by young people and their teachers, including images, films, music and stories of the people and the local environment the participants wish to share with the rest of the world was showcased throughout the day.

The inspirational setting of historic Creswell Crags is providing the back-drop for "The Meadows" - an ambitious week-long festival of creativity for Shine week, featuring over 800 talented pupils from 24 schools all over Bolsover, Ashfield and Mansfield engaging in a number of different activities including dance, art and creative writing.

Arts Award celebrates creativity and leadership! Over 600 schools and colleges offer this new qualification which recognises young people's achievement as artists and arts leaders. 170 of these have already supported students to gain Arts Awards, and we congratulate them in the Times Educational Supplement on Friday 4 July (PDF file, 37kb).

We had to decorate an Easter egg and the nicest egg won a prize.
This egg was done by Kamran Amin age: 11

Break Point

Who?
By Emma Thompson 7Y

I am a mysterious creature,
Silent but as dark as night.
I creep around the empty street
Dodging the bright lights,
For I am not used to them.
I can feel the breeze
Swishing past my scruffy fur.
I can feel it lifting me up
As I jump through the air.
No one’s staring
or making a move to get me for I am wanted.
Now as I end my little stroll,
Passing the dark tangled trees,
I am still wanted, still unknown and never will be seen.

Art
By Heather Johnson 7Y

Paint and paper, card and string
Isn’t art a wonderful thing?
Mount your easel, find your brush,
Don’t you hurry, don’t you rush.
You could paint an island or king,
You could draw some wondrous things.
It is easy; don’t grab your brush,
Don’t you worry, don’t you rush.
Let go of your brain and let your thoughts bring
A Wonderful Thing!

Miss Critchley
By Grace Collins – 7Y

Please Miss Critchley
As clever as clever,
We’ll never find one
That’s any better.

Oh silly boy,
Oh what have you done?
Oh really, really,
This ain’t no fun.

Daniel get down;
And Heather, please no!
Silly children,
Why don’t you know?

Every time you do this
Miss Critchley gets mean;
Smoke puffs from her ears
And she starts to go green.

Oh no, oh no, it has begun;
All of you,
Look,
Look what you’ve done!

Smoke flies to the ceiling,
Then drops to the floor.
As black as night sky
You can’t see any more.