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🎨 Arts.

Five disciplines, one programme: C.R.E.A.T.E. covers Music, Visual Arts, Theatre, Dance and Media Arts — all aligned to the National Core Arts Standards (NCAS) across the four artistic processes: Creating, Performing/Presenting, Responding, Connecting.

Vocabulary & reading spine

Words we teach, books we read

GradeTier 2 vocabularyTier 3 vocabularySuggested reading
Nurseryloud · soft · fastrhythm · colour
  • Mix It Up! — Hervé TulletColour-mixing as a game.
LKGcopy · changebeat · shape
  • Press Here — Hervé TulletCause + creative response.
UKGdifferent · samemelody · tempo
  • The Dot — Peter H. ReynoldsIdentity as an artist.
Grade 1perform · audienceline · shape · pitch
  • Beautiful Oops! — Barney SaltzbergMistakes as material.
Grade 2express · composetempo · composition
  • The Noisy Paint Box — Barb RosenstockKandinsky, synaesthesia.
Grade 3interpret · deviseostinato · palette · tableau
  • Action Jackson — Jan GreenbergProcess of an artist (Pollock).
Grade 4critique · refinedynamics · choreography · shot
  • Frida — Jonah WinterVisual arts and biography.
Grade 5justify · evaluateform · genre · medium
  • The Genius Within — VariousCross-arts case studies.