Will you go up? Or down?

This summer artist Sarah Carne will explore in The Art of the Game –  our two-day children’s art course with children – the possibility of building a human scale game similar to snakes and ladders incorporating issues that interest them. These ideas could could be as broad as recycling, climate change, school uniform or the length of their holidays.

They will be encouraged to share and debate opinions – and perhaps disagree, whilst developing skills in making: design, painting and building.

A gallery, two schools and an artist:
in search of missing lessons

The project Hidden Curriculum investigates forms of learning in school outside the official curriculum, and the informal ways in which secondary school students learn from one another.

Day 2 of our Magazines for Kids by Kids course, and artist Ania Bas continued to lead the team of editors in the production of their magazine.

The group began to bond through decision making and collaborative action. Teams were formed for specific tasks and the children worked together to inspire and advise each other.

Slowly ‘The Artist Times’ emerged!

At the Children’s Art School Half Term course children worked as a team of editors to design and create their own magazine by kids for kids.

We looked at magazines and planned what we would like to include.

Children’s Art School are interested in looking at the content that is produced for children’s magazines and asking children to cast a critical eye over the things supposedly produced for them. We will then ask them design their own visual magazine that will be printed professionally.

Pelham After-School Art Club (Autumn Term Project)

This term at Pelham Primary Schools’ art club we will be commemorating Pelham’s willow tree, before it is sadly felled to make room for much needed classrooms.

We started by documenting the tree in preparation for the project. We drew quick sketches and made rubbings outside in fine liner, charcoal, wax and pencil. We looked up into the canopy, at the shapes of the brances, and the texture of the bark up close. We took impressions of the bark by pressing  clay into the surface of the tree.