Art Ambassadors at Bridgewater

Here at Bridgewater, we are committed to achieving the Artsmark Award. The Artsmark Award is a creative quality standard for schools which is accredited by Arts Council England. This will allow us to develop and celebrate our commitment to arts and cultural education. The Artsmark will help to:

• build young people’s confidence, character and resilience through arts and cultural education
• embed creativity across the whole curriculum and use it to address school improvement priorities
• celebrate our long-term commitment to cultural education with pupils, parents and our local community

We would like to introduce our appointed Art Ambassadors who have been working tirelessly on projects in school already.

Their roles include:

• Attending regular Arts Council meetings that will be held during school hours, offering valuable contributions and expressing pupil voice
• Be willing and confident to meet, discuss and share our art curriculum with visitors to our school
• Modelleing and sharing projects that Bridgewater are involved in
• Assisting Miss Lovell in organising and managing whole school Art competitions
• Supporting in activities which will contribute towards an Artsmark Award

Their first project, dictated by them following a pupil voice session, was to develop a series of Art work to be displayed outside Mrs Henderson’s office. They worked together collaboratively to decide on the theme of Wellbeing and wanted to share positive affirmations for other children to see. We are incredibly proud of the results!

Their next project was to design and make a scarecrow that was displayed as part of the Little Hulton and Walkden Scarecrow Festival at the end of September. Our Art Ambassadors met with Mrs Houghton to develop initial ideas before collaborating on a final design. They then met as a group to build and create their wonderful Scarecrows- Bridge-t and Wa-l-ter. These were displayed at the Scarecrow Trail at St. John's Community Centre and we are proud to announce that we came in 1st place!