Inspirational Creative Experiences
Invite our professional artists into your classroom to bring creativity, skills and inspiring content to the heart of learning.
Box-Head Beasts
Let your imaginations go wild to create your own fabulous beastie head-dresses that can be worn and shown-off around the school. Perfect for a school production, book week costumes or to complement your animal themed topics. Every pupil will design their own wild thing artwork, entirely from cardboard and paper.
Art
Literacy
Sciences
Design & Technology
Early Years
KS1
KS2
We Built This City
This is a spectacular whole school project to build your own village, town or city from recycled cardboard and paper. All year groups will become architects and town planners in the creation of an installation that will be the talk of the town!
Art
Design & Technology
Geography
History
PSHE
Early Years
KS1
KS2
SEN
Willow Magic
Create 3D sculptures from willow to display around your school. These versatile structures can represent shape, form or colour and they are so lightweight that they can be made into elaborate costumes, displays or topic centrepieces. You can also add lights to the sculptures to make glowing lanterns – perfect for special events!
Art
Design
Maths
KS2
SEN
Statement Art
Create a permanent artwork to celebrate your school. This project invites pupils and staff to work with a professional artist to design a unique art work in your foyers, hall or playgrounds. From mascots to school values, we will transform a blank canvas into a special feature for your school
Art
Design & Technology
Geography
KS1
KS2
SEN
Forest Heroes
Raise the profile of trees and their importance in our eco-system. Your entire school will become Forest Heroes with every class invited to grow a paper forest in the heart of your school. After all, trees are made into paper and your recycled paper will build a tree sculpture!
Art
Sciences
Geography
Design & Technology
Early Years
KS1
KS2
SEN
Animal Prints
Working with a professional print-maker, you will learn printing techniques and about collagraphs, to create your own printed art works on postcards. This practical workshop produces a set of vibrant and powerful animal images that encourage pupils to be curious about natural form and creative with new materials.
Sciences
Art
EYFS
KS1
KS2
Kids United
Everyone is equal and when everyone works together in this dance project, your pupils will explore the values of peace, team work and unison via the uplifting power of dance.
Dance
PSHE
KS1
KS2
SEN/D
Nature News
Noel Nowalls is in need of some roving reporters for an important news item to be presented to a live audience at the end of the school day. Work with a performer - star of screen and stage - to create your very own nature reports. This project is full of wildlife facts, knowledge and entertainment facilitated by a costumed character!
Drama
Literacy
Sciences
360° Virtual Reality Workshops
With our virtual reality headsets and technology, our 360° workshops will take pupils on expeditions to other worlds and remarkable places, beyond the classroom and without leaving the school!
Chose an expedition to enhance your pupils' learning, topics and inspire creativity.
Moonlanding
A wonderful, mind-boggling 360° film that transports viewers to an unusual moon. Travelling by cardboard rocket, it lands upon a paper moon with whirling craters, moon-shaking boulders and, if you stay long enough, you might spot a moon-buggy driving across the moonscape!
The film was made entirely from paper and cardboard, crafted by the 200 pupils, teachers and artists from east Kent who took part in Art Builders in Spring 2019. It was made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of man’s first moon landing.
The Art Builders Gallery
An art gallery like no other! Stepping into the Art Builders Gallery is like stepping into the paintings and art works themselves. It is an immersive and inspiring experience. Every artwork is influenced by famous artists from around the world, and inspired 100s of young artists to curate their very own magical art gallery for this expedition.
The Arts & Culture World Tour
With our kit and our expert tour-guides, we will take your pupils to world-famous galleries, museums, landmarks & icons around the globe with a press of a button. From Asia to South America & back to Europe, the bespoke tour will complement your school topics and transport pupils to places normally far beyond the reach of a typical school outing!
When you book a workshop with us we always aim to…
- Bring learning to life: complementing other areas of the curriculum and school improvement plans
- Make safe spaces: creating a safe, inclusive environment to explore creativity
- Value participants: putting pupils’ personal development, behaviour and welfare at the heart of what we do
- Develop skills: promoting participants’ personal autonomy, self-belief, confidence, communication and team-work skills throughout
- Connect you with professional artists: inspiring creativity and engagement
- Tailor-make to You: working with you and your Animate artist to design every project individually to your school's needs and objectives
- Transform your school: effecting a transformation in your school’s staff, pupils and environment
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