Recent Work
All children have an innate and enormous capacity to be expressive and creative in art. In the act of noticing, selecting, interpreting and forming ideas the child reflects what he thinks and feels about the world and unifies it into an expression of the self. This process is uplifting and builds a strong and confident sense of self. Given the opportunity, this has a powerful knock-on effect in the way children learn and are motivated in other areas of the curriculum.
Primary teachers who understand these processes in young children will recognise the need for such opportunities to be created in the classroom.
"The way creativity may best be realised is for the child to be exposed through all of his senses to the qualities of life.Through direct experiences with tactile, visual and audio phenomena the child's imagination and perceptual powers are developed" Victor Lowenfield, 'The Nature of Creative Activity'.
Courses
Here are the titles of some of the courses I have run in recent years:
- Understanding Creativity and learning in Art
- Understanding and enriching children’s ‘natural’ stages of development in art
- Planning for quality learning in art in cross curricular topics
- Establishing creativity in early years
- Becoming confident at teaching art
- Creativity and EQ through Art and Music in the Early Years
- Using art to develop emotional intelligence (KS1 & 2)
- Download flier (PDF, 212kBrilliant art for years 1 and 2
- Download flier (PDF, 474kb)Brilliant art for years 3 and 4
- Working with 3D materials in Key Stage 1
- Download flier (PDF, 403kb)Printing techniques for key stage 1 and 2
- Download flier (PDF, 255kb)Drawing for the terrified
- Download flier (PDF, 359kb)
Support and training
