Garlinge Primary School and Nursery, Westfield Road, Margate, Kent, CT9 5PA
Following the National Curriculum framework of principles for Art and Design, we aim to provide a wide range of stimulating and rich creative opportunities that will aid and broaden our pupils' artistic development. The children are able to respond to the natural and man-made environment through direct experiences and observations including opportunities for learning outside the classroom. Our pupils visit local art galleries and study local architecture, sculpture and design. We provide a wide variety of tools, materials and equipment for the children to experiment and become familiar with.
We enable the children to learn about the great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms. Our pupils are encouraged to critically evaluate their own and other's work and use specialised art vocabulary when discussing their ideas.
Throughout the school there are many interactive displays which celebrate the children’s work. Our school Art gallery and the children’s portfolios and sketchbooks demonstrate the progression of Art and Design skills taught from Nursery to Year 6.
We are active in the local community, with visits to the Turner Art Gallery, Kent Life museum, Dreamland, and Quex Powell Cotton museum. We participate in a number of art projects and competitions including Cauliflower Cards Christmas Card Project, the Rotary Club Art competition (displayed at Westwood Cross) and have been winners of 'The Neal Foundation', Art project for seven consecutive years. Our annual arts week, provides the opportunity for local artists and visitors to be invited into school to work first-hand with the children.
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Family Workshop | Turner Contemporary
Fri 7 Feb - Sun 1 Jun 2025
Turner Contemporary has transformed the Clore Learning Studio into Chalk Stream, designed for play, alongside the children’s art library of over 400 books and regular workshop programme.
Go make your mark in the stream but before you enter, please read the rules below:
· Help yourself to chalk and draw on anything black – let your creativity flow!
· Collaborate with other artists in the stream.
· Use the stream bridges to move around without stepping on artwork.
· Before leaving, use the brushes provided to dust yourself off and wipe your feet.
Get messy!
Try to get hold of as many different types of drawing and painting resources as you can to let your child get creative and explore creating art using different materials. Paints, chalk, crayons, pens, pencils, modelling clay and much more can be found in discount shops. Just don’t forget to put lots of newspaper down first!
Use household objects creatively
Alternatively, instead of buying materials, let them get creative using things around the house – for example, pasta and pulses to create pictures using glue.
Keep a sketch book
Encourage your child to keep a sketch book. Suggest that they take it with them when they go out so that they can look for things to sketch – a tree, a building, a scene. Alternatively, if they see something they would like to draw, take a photo on your phone and let them sketch from it when they are home.
Celebrate your child's art
Praise your child’s creations and encourage them not to get disheartened if they feel they have made ‘mistakes’. Explain that art is about being creative and trying out different things. There is no right or wrong way to do things. You could even ‘frame’ their work using coloured paper or card and create a little gallery on the kitchen wall or in their bedroom to display their work.
Discuss and enjoy art together
Find out about local art galleries or museums that you can visit with your child. Encourage them to talk about what they see and to share their opinions – about subject matter, colours, what materials the artist used, and so on
You can access over 500 arts and crafts activities, including painting, sculptures and printmaking. This site gives you ideas of what Art supplies to provide for you child in order to create and make different things.
You can watch step by step videos on how to draw different things, origami for children, how to paint, holiday and celebratory art projects and projects related to the Seasons. It also gives you a list of the resources you will need before completing each art project.
A website which gives you ideas on how to collect natural resources to produce different forms of Art.
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Kids can follow instructions to make different things, play art games and quizzes and explore and read about the work of well-known artists.
You can watch class clips on famous artists, techniques and how to create different things.
Take a look at our wonderful hall displays which show the children’s learning in French.
Our pupils have created exciting displays based on the history topics that they have been learning in class. Take a look …
Our children have enthusiastically been creating wonderful Winter displays and hoops. A range of media has been used across the school to make the art and DT work varied and exciting. Take a look at some of our work to create a magical Winter Wonderland.
This week, our children continued their annual tradition of Arts Week. This year, the children’s creativity was inspired by the topic: ‘The Circus Comes to Garlinge.’
On the final day of Arts week (Friday 24th May), our pupils celebrated with a whole school parade showcasing their vibrant and artistic circus themed creations. Alongside this, we sang a range of songs including, ‘Firework’ and ‘This is the Greatest Show’, and the school’s dance troop performed a brilliant routine to a series of tunes from the film, ‘The Greatest Showman’.
Mr Cope, the Head of School commented, ‘This was a fantastic event where our children could showcase their artwork to the rest of the school. It was a pleasure to see Music and Art combined. The children and staff excelled in their creativity throughout the week. The parade was so much fun, I loved the circus theme. A special thanks must go to Miss Jenkins, Mr Cowan, Miss Bailey, Mr Bailey and the rest of the PE staff for their hard work and dedication in organising such an inspirational week for all”.
Head Girl, Eleanor (aged 11) said, “We had a fantastic week celebrating Arts Week.”
Lead of the Arts, Miss Jenkins, expressed her delight at the success of the event. "Arts Week has been a huge success, and it was lovely to see our children’s excitement during the parade. The school's corridors and hallways have become a bustling avenue of imaginative displays.”
Our children have been inspired by their class reader/book during their creative writing, art and DT lessons. Look at the wonderful displays that they have created:
The children have been busily creating art work for the annual Rotary Young Artist Festival. A selection of our pupil’s work has been chosen to appear in the exhibition which will be held at Sainsbury’s (Westwood Cross) between 13th May to the 19th May (8am to 10pm).
Our pupils have had lots of fun celebrating our annual Arts Week (22nd and 26th May). This year’s theme has been inspired by the new mermaid parade, ‘MERGATE’, which took place in Margate on Saturday June 3rd. The children have been designing and creating their own recycled/up-cycled sea-life crafts in preparation for our own parade at school which took place today (Friday 26th March).
We have had a fantastic creative time celebrating Arts Week ( 27th June – 1st July) and the topic ‘Global Orchard’. Our children created some wonderful pieces of artwork inspired by different trees around the world and when studying the work of the street artist Squirl and the collage artist, Sarah Buckett. With the help of some very creative TA’s, we have also built a well-being orchard as a quiet and reflective working space for our pupils to enjoy. This is the second year that we have worked closely with the art organisation Art Builders. Please look at the photographs below and admire our displays and the children’s incredible masterpieces.
We are very excited to announce, that our pupils and the staff at Garlinge Primary School and Nursery are celebrating after receiving a prestigious Artsmark Award as it celebrates 20 years of arts, culture and creativity in schools.
The Artsmark Award is the only creative quality standard for schools, accredited by Arts Council England. It supports schools to develop and celebrate arts and cultural education, putting creativity and wellbeing at the heart of the curriculum. Artsmark ensures every young person can be creative and access a diverse, high-quality cultural education.
In order to achieve their Artsmark Award, Garlinge Primary School and Nursery had to develop their arts and culture provision to embed a broad and ambitious curriculum. This was achieved by creating an overall plan that was committed to and delivered across the whole school.
The Artsmark assessor commended on Garlinge Primary School and Nursery:
“The high value you place on the Arts is well illustrated by the number of exciting arts projects that have taken place, such as the creative project based on the environmentalist Andy Goldsworthy, the visual art and photography projects, as well as the many opportunities for your pupils to perform music, dance and drama at competitions and large events. All these provide thrilling learning opportunities for the children.”
On receiving the award, Miss Jenkins (Year 6 teacher and Lead and Coordinator of the Arts at Garlinge Primary and Nursery) said:
“We’re extremely proud of achieving our Artsmark Gold Award. We are committed to delivering a high-quality arts and cultural education and we look forward to continue to grow with Artsmark.”
Year 3 and 4 have enjoyed making our corridor look magical for Christmas. We have created art of animal silhouettes making paw prints in the snow in year 3. In year 4 we have looked at the landmarks from our London topic and created sparkly frost silhouettes. We used our collage and paint skills to create this art work.
Between June 28th and July 2nd our school celebrated ‘Health and Well-Being Week’ where the pupils took part in a range of exciting creative and sporting activities. With the help of the company, ‘Art Builders’ (Animate Arts), the children took part in a range of activities inspired by local artists through virtual workshops. This included creating individual maps, collaborative group and class maps, writing happiness ‘concrete’ poems and a range of colourful printing activities . We all had lots of fun when deciding the ingredients we could include in a magic potion for happiness. The week was a huge success with examples of the fabulous artwork displayed around our school.
Recently, our children had the exciting opportunity to take part in an art/eco competition run by Thanet District Council. They task was to design an imaginative and colourful eco super hero. We are very pleased to announce, that one of our Year 5 students, Phoebe has won the competition. Her winning design will be used in the Council’s street scene campaigns which will try to persuade the public to avoid dropping litter or fly-tipping. Well done Pheobe! We are very proud of you! Look out for her very creative design around the Thanet area.
Sadly, due to Covid, the children’s Rainbow Ward at QEQM have been unable to put up many Christmas decorations this year. When we heard about this, we decided that it would be a lovely idea to send some of children’s Christmas artwork to the hospital to bring some festive joy to the wards.
Our children have enthusiastically been creating wonderful Winter displays and Hoops. A range of media has been used across the school to make the art and DT work varied and exciting. Take a look at our magical Winter Wonderland. Which display is your favourite?
During Term 5 and 6 selected children where chosen to attend an after school art and craft club lead by Miss Jenkins, Year 6 Teacher and Mrs Williams a local artist. Together they worked alongside the children to help inspire them to create their own art pieces experimenting with a ride range of media to create a mini project of their learning journey to help them achieve an arts award.
To help them achieve their award the children were invited to spend the afternoon at Quex Powell Cotton Museum where they were able to interview the staff about the museum before taking part in a short art workshop.
Please see below a short paragraph from the children explaining there journey throughout their time at art club.
By Grace
By Ella By Elizabeth
By Cameron By Orlendra
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