Integrated Arts – 15.10.19 | Kerry Barclay Personal Development Profile

Our written assignment was the focus of today’s lecture, looking at how the assignment could be broken down into sections and looking at certain topics within these sections. By doing this, it should make the writing of the assignment easier and less complicated as we know what is required in each part.

We have to choose 2 of the arts we feel we have learned the most from and from the inputs we have had so far I think music will be one of the art forms I choose. It is one of the subjects I have the least knowledge about and feel as though I have gained a lot of valuable information about the curricular area, like how music can enhance wider skills to enable children to fulfil the four capacities. Being creative can support a wide range of tasks, including environmentally, culturally and within the community (Education Scotland, 2013).

Our music workshop was centred around rhythm and pulse. Chanting and marching a song to a steady beat was the first part of the session,

“Pulse is a steady beat , You can feel it in your feet, Keep it steady, keep in time, Let’s sing this song another time!”.

By explaining what pulse is and giving children real life references, for example, our heartbeat is a steady pulse. Then allowing them to sing and march would cement their understanding of the concept.

We also looked and performed presentations about rhythm. We participated in doing some drumming whilst looking at some presentations that were focused on both first and second level outcomes.

Printing was the subject of today’s visual arts session, working in the style of Bob and Roberta Smith.

As above, we created our own slogans and used highly contrasting colours to create a high impact that gives children agency and the freedom to express themselves.