What We Like About This Resource…. “You can get a real sense of the environment in this post and how this could provide so much inspiration for creative projects. We are aware there the challenges to exploring the outdoors when many schools are in towns and cities. A way around this could be to have […]
What We Like About This Resource…. “It’s really interesting to hear how Su’s career path evolved organically, and how experimenting with different disciplines such as ceramics and sculpture whilst studying Textiles at the RCA began her journey towards paper craft and books. We really like how the small book sculptures inspired the larger scale set […]
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What We Like About This Resource…. “It’s lovely to see a resource that centres on a particular material and the scope it offers. I particularly like how the dogwood is used here to make wooden beads. This idea could be developed further by looking at how wood has been used to make jewelry throughout history […]
What We Like About This Resource…. “There’s a really fun element to this activity which is you can imagine all children really enjoying! The idea of food on large scale is a great starter for a sculpture project and an early exploration of working in 3D. What’s really positive to see in this project is […]
What We Like About This Resource… “Rosie highlights the importance of embracing a wide variety of interests and ways of working into our wider creative practice, resulting in wonderfully rich and very personal explorations and outcomes. There are so many clues in this resource for teachers. Look out for how Rosie slows down her whole […]
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Use a range of making and modelling techniques to create a cafe, including modroc doughnuts and fabric pizzas!
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Anna Campbell shares how a whole school engaged with making projects integrated across subjects in response to the Renaissance painting of Cupid and Psyche by Jacopo Del Sellaio at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and how she used the project to progress pupils’ making skills throughout the year groups.
Natalie Bailey shares the pupils’ Inspire journey and their response to the Renaissance painting of Cupid and Psyche by Jacopo Del Sellaio at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge as well as her reflections on the transformative impact that the project had on the children and how Art can support healing and wellbeing.
Sue Brown shares her experience of an Ofsted inspection with an Art Deep Dive.
Inspired by Paula’s recent rousing film, ‘It’s in Our Hands’, artist Jan Miller pulled images together from her own teaching to illustrate the things the children in her classroom do with their hands
Sheila Ceccarelli tells the story of how Cupid and Psyche, painted by Jacopo Del Sellaio, an Italian Renaissance artist, came to become the most loved painting in Cambridgeshire. Inspire is an exhibition of art made by primary school children and celebrates the creativity of our local schools. It champions the on-going importance of cultural learning and the visual arts for children and young people. A chance also to see Del Sellaio’s Cupid and Psyche on display next to the children’s work.
Roald Dahl’s The Minpin Birds inspired Arbury school pupils to design and make their own birds for a tiny Minpin to ride upon. Alongside this project, the class drew their own maps of imaginary worlds and imagining themselves as Minpins.
Teacher Anna Campbell shares this beautiful resource which shares how children aged between 4 and 7 years old, made ‘Light’ boxes. This project could easily be adapted for an older class and is brilliant for SEN children/adults.
