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WOW! What an amazing day! We are so proud to have been a part of the Holmfirth Arts Festival Creature Carnival Parade.. The Children’s Art School provided the ‘Bird’ section of the parade- here they all are pre-parade but ready to go!! Little Art Club and Juniors were ducklings hatching out of eggs: Whilst their […]
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Creature Carnival- Holmfirth Arts Festival 2016 The Holmfirth Arts Festival is nearly here! We are so pleased to be part of it again this year We will be helping to create a Creature Carnival inspired by the story of Holmfirth’s Fenella the Tiger. This carnival will see wild and wonderful creatures on the streets of
Ebb and Flow paintings installed! The paintings for our Ebb and Flow project have been installed along the river wall underneath the Picturedrome… and they look amazing! They were up just in time for the Holmfirth Folk Festival so have been seen by thousands of people! The river area in the centre of Holmfirth is
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Junior Art Clubs artwork still on tour! So proud that our Junior Art Clubs fabulous Dinosaur world print and collage continues its National Tour as part of Engage, Generation Arts Young artists tour. Find out more here: http://engage.org/genart.aspx
City Project Over the last few weeks we have been creating a city in the studio. First there were the big prints and collages by Little Art Club and Junior Art clubs. They imagined skyscrapers and drew their own houses using monoprint techniques. f Juniors and Intermediates explored the idea of a city skyline using
…a further communication with our MP about creativity in education I believe it is disingenuous to suggest that schools/teachers/parents actively want academisation. Academisation ultimately will allow business to run education with no involvement from parents: how can this ever be in our children’s best interests? I have not met any parents who support this (both
My letter to our local MP about the Governments proposed plans for acadamisation I am writing to implore you not to support the governments plans for academisation. I cannot understand how the evidence provided by the existing acadamies can be taken to suggest that this is a sensible or desirable option. I set up
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What an amazing end to our Ebb and Flow project! Our young artists (11-13 years old), having produced the most wonderful drawings and paintings, took part in a ‘happening’ which combined projections of the artworks with improvised music, sound and readings of their flow of consciousness poems. Led by the amazing Charlotte Watson and
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More support for cultural education: https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/all-our-children-deserve-a-rich-cultural-education-not-all-them-are The chairman of Arts Council England argues that ‘all pupils should have the opportunity to create, compose, and perform their own artistic work’ Through art and culture, we come to understand and articulate ourselves. They engage us in a dialogue about values; they define our national identity and our
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EBB and FLOW continued… The paintings for this project are now finished and they are WONDERFUL! A group of 10-13 yr olds have, in only 6 weekly sessions, experimented with materials and concept in order to create large scale paintings to be hung along the river wall in the centre of Holmfirth. Our young artists
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