Bromley High Early Years has been shortlisted in The National Gallery’s programme for primary schools, Take One Picture. The programme celebrates children’s creativity and aims to inspire a lifelong love of art and learning. Winners of the competition will have their artwork exhibited at the heart of a world-leading Gallery in the summer.
Every year, the Gallery chooses one picture from their collection to inspire cross-curricular work in primary classrooms. This year, the picture is The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello.
Over four months, our Reception pupils examined the picture in depth with their class teacher, Miss Sarah-Louise Dunford, who has studied a Masters in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy, and is the school’s Art Coordinator.
The parents also took part on a virtual session in which they explored the picture and discussed their own ideas, thoughts and considerations.
“I was delighted to see the responses of our Reception pupils to the picture. One of the joys of working in Early Years is constantly enabling children to take ownership of their learning, seek child- initiated play and provide high-quality observations to ensure progress is reached.”Miss Sarah-Louise Dunford, Early Years
Each week, the pupils focused on looking closely at the picture, taking each detail such as the clothing, battle, fruits, animals, foreground and background and closely analysis each piece. The girls enjoyed taking part in the discussion and used it as a basis to complete other tasks, such as building a tower for Pablo to live in or painting the horse in battle.
If successful in the second round, our Reception pupils will have the exciting and unique opportunity to see their artwork exhibited at The National Gallery this summer. Congratulations to the pupils and to Miss Sarah-Louise Dunford for their successful submission to the programme!
