During 2016 AccessArt will be exploring how the creation of dedicated art and design spaces in primary schools can impact upon the whole school. Whilst many schools are struggling to find time and space for art, others are demonstrating the beneficial affect an art room can have across the curriculum. We will be creating a series of exemplar posts that share how art rooms have been financed and developed – if you would like your art room (KS 1 and 2) to be featured here, then please get in touch.

The following articles explore:

How do art rooms act as catalysts for changing attitudes to art in schools?

Natalie Deane at Battyeford Primary School

Kathryn Argyle from Crossley Fields Infant and Junior School

Mandy Barrett from Gomersal Primary School

Anna Morrow at The Elms Junior School

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Pathway: Shadow Puppets

This is featured in the ‘Shadow Puppets’ pathway

Talking Points: Cut Outs

Talking Points: Malaysian Puppets

Talking Points: Lotte Reiniger

Session Recording: Making Shadow Puppets

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Visual Arts Planning Collections: Cardboard and paper

Book art with Primary children

Making 2d & 3d Fashion Designs with Painted and Decorated Paper

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Pathway: Simple Printmaking

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Pathway: Making Birds

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Collaging with Wax Crayon Rubbings

One: Casting

Exploring mark making into wet clay, mould making, mixing and pouring plaster

Two: Patterns in Nature, Line and Wire

Using drawing to look at designs and patterns in nature to inspire the creation of wire sculpture

Three: Taking Rubbings and Making Compositions

Recording the surrounding world by taking rubbings

Four: Block Printing

Learners are introduced to block printing

Five: Monoprinting

Exploring texture, pattern and mark making through monoprinting

Six: Steps to Observational Drawing

Four steps to enabling observational drawing

Seven: Making Sculpture

Learners explore sculptural principles of form, space and balance

Eight: Wax Resist and Scraffito

Introducing colour with wax resist and scraffito techniques

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Visual Arts Planning Collections: Cardboard and paper

Adapting AccessArt: 2D to 3D

Making Prompt cards