Our Year 6 Transition workshops for primary schools have been developed to support children in celebrating their time at your school, to consider both the fresh opportunities that transition brings them and explore ways of overcoming any challenges they might meet. Each workshop culminates in artistic outcomes. Memory Lane – Year 6 Leavers Show Working with professional … Read More
Our Catch-Up Summer School 2023 workshops are now available to book allowing you to create tailored maths, science or literacy-based creative days – or your own cross-curricular programmes! This summer over 3000 pupils are taking part in our Catch-Up Summer School workshops. Whether you are looking for a one day workshop or something longer-term our … Read More
We’re always looking for inspiration for cross-curricular learning and we’d like to share our five of our favourite artworks/artists that lend themselves brilliantly to this. 1) William Hogarth’s painting ‘Scenes from Shakespeare’s The Tempest’ provides a great starting point for discussion around how the characters might be lifted from page to stage. Did your pupils … Read More
This summer we will be celebrating the creative arts in schools across the country by supporting children to explore, engage and develop their own creativity through a wide range of participatory art workshops. We believe that art is for everyone, that everyone should have the opportunity to participate in the creative arts – and that participating in … Read More
Once the dust settles after the Year 6 SATs are over, you’ll want to give those pupils opportunities to move beyond the curriculum and enrich their learning. So we’ve adapted some of our most enjoyable and stretching creative maths, science, literacy, history and visual arts workshops to extend thinking, develop skills and deliver new content. … Read More
When one of our team was struggling to find a holiday club that catered to her children’s interests we decided to create our own! There were lots of great sounding sports clubs to choose from, but what about those children who could spend all day making something from scrap, or whose minds were overflowing with … Read More
There is no shortage of green and leafy, outdoor space at Childwall C of E Primary so we were delighted to be invited to support the development of a Prayer Trail set in their grounds. In particular, we focused on giving thanks and having spent a day with Year 4 exploring the things in our … Read More
There’s something magical about being able to bring your characters to life and make them move. Create simple two frame animations that can stimulate ideas for creative writing and character design with this quick and easy activity from children’s illustrator Kate Pankhurst. Download the resource here Get in touch and let us know … Read More
Children’s Book Week is the annual celebration of books for young people and the joy of reading. Established in 1919, Children’s Book Week is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. Every year, commemorative events are held nationwide at schools, libraries, bookstores, homes, wherever young readers and books connect! If you are looking for ways to … Read More
Our work last year on the Titanic commemorations cemented brilliant relationships with Culture Liverpool and Liverpool City Council – so we were invited to propose some family-friendly arts workshops we could run as part of the 2012 Tall Ships Festival. These went so well that we were invited to come back again this year – … Read More
We worked with 50 teachers and 500 children and young people across Liverpool schools to help paint a picture of what life was like aboard the Titanic. The programme involved exploring the physical and emotional world of the Titanic as part of the build up to Liverpool’s Giant spectacular weekend. Working with illustrator Kate Pankhurst, … Read More
Beechwood Primary School has a fabulous suite of Macbooks and access to the iMovie editing application, so the Reception teacher at was keen to explore ways she and her class could take advantage of these facilities. as creatives suggested a number of ways that using the application could support teaching and learning: as a tool … Read More
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