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Support for Cultural Education

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 paintings

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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Ebb and flow

Week 5 Ebb and Flow This week group have been really moving on with their  paintings…editing poems created by exploring a flow of consciousness and creating rhythm and improvised melodies…  

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Tentacle-tastic

Tentacle-tastic Saturday Drawing tentacles today has provided a great way for our children and  young people to explore creating the illusion of form using light and shade. The Intermediate group explored mixing tones… They also created a gorgeous big print using bubble wrap to create tentacle-textures! Seniors continued to use charcoal and to develop our

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Junior tentacles!

Junior tentacles! So proud of our junior artists who have tackled  3D form through using light and shade  so brilliantly! Really lovely drawings and some of these artists are only 4 years old!

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More Tentacles!

The tentacles theme is proving a real hit! Everyone loves drawing a tentacle! From our pre-schoolers to our older teenagers and adults at Monday evenings drawing class. Little Art Club have been using this theme to explore  circles. They made paper plate octopuses and used bottle tops to print suckers onto their tentacles. They practiced drawing

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tentacles!

Inspired by the sea theme of The Little Mermaid our current project is using octopus tentacles to teach how to use use light and shade to create the illusion of 3D..This is going to be a really fun project for all our groups and teach them really valuable drawing skills… Our big drawing of a

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Octopuss

Little Mermaid

All our artists have been making 3D props for a local pantomime production of The Little Mermaid: Little Art Club and Saturday Juniors created Octopuses… And this gorgeous, enormous, 2D whale: Whilst Intermediate and Juniors created  amazing 3D whales using just newspaper, masking tape and Kitchen roll: Everyone from our 2 year olds to our

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