Adapting AccessArt

Clay Pots by Charlotte Puddephatt

In 2022, AccessArt was proud to present a new Primary Art Curriculum.

In the Adapting AccessArt series, we will be spotlighting teachers and educators who have used AccessArt resources to develop their own pathways or stand-alone sessions, responding to the needs of their schools, pupils or educational settings.

If you would like to share your own adaptation get in touch.

Explore Adaptations...

Find a recording of a CPD session exploring the different ways in which teachers have, and can, adapt AccessArt resources here.

swirly ponds

Adding Oil Pastel To Drawings by Tobi Meuwissen

Learners create a collaged pond using a variety of experimental mark-making and mixed media tools

woolly scarves and long sketchbooks

Finished Collaged Scarves Made From Rubbings at WDCE by Tobi Meuwissen

Using oil pastels, wax crayons and graphite sticks to create rubbings, learners captured the bright colours and woolly textures of scarves

Plinth People

Plinth People Inspired by “Children’s Games” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder by Charlotte Puddephatt

Charlotte shares with us how she used the AccessArt Plinth people resource to explore the painting proposed by the National Gallery's initiative, Take One Picture

Thick and Thin paint

Clare Boreham thick thin paint adding water

Learners explore the differences between thick and thin paint and how artists might use paint for different purposes or to create different effects

Sequence and Story Building

Story Sequence by Yu-Ching Chiu

Participants create a story, told in a 3-part series of illustrations using the local area and various prompts as the starting point for their illustrated story

Stories and Faces

Layered Ink Portrait by Sarah Longley

Sarah Longley works in collaboration with a primary school and daycare centre to facilitate a project inspired by the Exploring Identity pathway

colour and composition

Colour and Compositions by Yu-Ching Chiu

Yu-Ching Chiu shares her adaptation of an AccessArt resource to highlight that colour and shape can be used to build interesting compositions

2d to 3d

Paper Sculptures by Yu-Ching Chiu

Yu-Ching Chiu shares her adaptation of an AccessArt resource giving pupils with little making experience the opportunity to develop their 'Design Through Making' skills

Pattern and colour

Final Prints by Yu-Ching Chiu

Yu-Ching Chiu shares her adaptation of the Collecting Colour to explore colour, composition and the screenprinting technique

Egypt in Ink

Egyptian Artefacts in Ink by Jennifer Connor

Jennifer Connor shares with us an adaptation of the Exploring Still Life pathway to create links with a curriculum topic on Ancient Egypt

Stone Age Clay Play

Clay Pinch Pots and Pendants Inspired By Stone Age Pots by Charlotte Puddephatt

Charlotte Puddephatt shares with us how she adapted the AccessArt Fruit Pinch Pot Project, to create pots inspired by ceramic artefacts found at Stonehenge

Playful making inspired by nnena kalu

Finished Group Sculptures Inspired by Nnena Kalu by Lorna Greenwood

Lorna Greenwood shares with us how she adapted the Primary Art Curriculum pathway ‘Playful Making’ to develop collaborative sculpture

the great fire of london

Monoprint and Oil Pastel Inspired by The Great Fire of London by Ruth Sohn-Rethel

Ruth Sohn-Rethel, shares with us how she developed a pathway exploring The Great Fire of London

Making Birds for SEN

Sculpture of a Bird by Ellie Daly

Ellie Daly, a teacher at a Special Educational Needs school shares with us how she adapted the 'Making Birds Pathway', to suit a current set of students

Woodland Creatures

Sheffield High School

In this post, teacher Charlotte Puddephatt shares with us how she used a series of AccessArt resources as the foundation of a project exploring woodland creatures

Telling Stories

Working out placement by Caroline Moore

In this post, teacher Caroline Moore demonstrates how she adapted an AccessArt resource to link to a WWII topic

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session recording: Adapting AccessArt

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Primary school teachers discuss how they have adapted AccessArt resources

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