Sculpture in Primary School
Rosie Hurley: Esio Trot
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 […]
Roots & Shoots: A Sculptural Challenge
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Art Club Cafe
Use a range of making and modelling techniques to create a cafe, including modroc doughnuts and fabric pizzas!
Get Connected! Cardboard Robots with Movable Joints
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Inspired! Making at Linton Heights Junior School
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.
Inspired! Psyche’s Resilience by The Fitzy Peters
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.
Ofsted are Coming Tomorrow!
Sue Brown shares her experience of an Ofsted inspection with an Art Deep Dive.
Unesco: Celebrating the Power of Making!
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
Cupid and Psyche: How a Fifteenth-Century Renaissance Panel Became the Most Loved Painting in Cambridgeshire
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.
Flying Minpin Birds
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.
Mini World Light Boxes
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.
Painted Clay
A resource inspired by the Japanese art of dorondongo, where mud and dirt are shaped and buffed into highly polished spheres.
Decorative Clay Coil Pots
Artist educator Sharon Gale working with KS1 & KS2 students at the Weston Park Art Club shares a clay pot making resource: “This is not the traditional way of making coil pots but it’s lots of fun and by using different paint effects, the end results can be very interesting. We worked on this project for two, two hour sessions”.
Clay Art Medals
In this three stage resource, students make a circular medal from clay depicting their own profile, look at examples of fun lettering and devise a short, fun or meaningful phrase to paint inside their portrait profile.
Clay ‘Portrait’ Miniatures
This two stage clay and painting resource by artist/educator Sharon Gale is very versatile because essentially the miniatures are blank canvasses. In this particular workshop, the subject matter had to link with KS2 Geography and the topic of rivers. Students were asked to research their favourite creature or plant, that made the British riverside its home. They made their miniatures from clay and painted their chosen wildlife onto them.
Tall Skinny
Teenagers working with Melissa Pierce Murray used thin wire to make works with a strong presence. They began by looking at examples of works by two contemporary women artists including Phyllida Barlow and Rebecca Warren.
‘Meet and Make’ Teacher CPD Event and Resource Share
See how teachers, museum educators, the local scrap store and arts organisations were brought together for a making session inspired by Brilliant Makers at Arbury Primary School, Cambridge with year three teacher Eilis Hanson.