An arts workshop from darts (Doncaster Community Arts) could be just the thing to get your new year off to a creative start. This edition of ArtyEd offers you a great range of workshops at really good prices due to support we receive from DMBC – make sure your school takes advantage!
Many of the workshops on offer make use of recycled materials at a time when we are all trying to be green. These workshops could also help with any Eco-Schools targets you may be trying to hit.
Please take a look at the workshops on offer and feel free to get in touch if you want to book a workshop or would like more information.
Best wishes
Beci Jamieson
Core Artist and Project Manager - Education
Email: beci@thepoint.org.uk
Phone: 01302 341662
P.S. Workshops (except for the animation workshop) cost £120 for half a day (plus materials for visual arts activities)
Fluffy feeling and touch felt
Visual Arts - The early years foundation stage
I'm dreaming of a green Christmas!
Music and Drama - The early years foundation stage, years 1-6 and special schools
Wheel of fortune
Visual Arts - The early years foundation stage and years 1-8
Not a box
Dance - The early years foundation stage, key stage one, special schools (primary ages)
Stumped!
Drama - Years 1-6
Make do and mend
Visual Arts - Years 3 & 4
It's a paper world
Drama and Puppetry - Years 3-6
Recycled willow furniture
Visual Arts - Years 3-6 and special schools
Recycled forest building
Visual Arts - Years 3-6 and special schools
mixing sounds
Music - Years 3-13 and special schools
Not so rubbish music
Music - Years 3-11
Recycled moves
Dance - Years 5-11
Recycle your viewpoint... see your world in a difference light
Dance - Years 7-13
... and something a bit different (£300 for a full day):
Animate your green ideas
Animation - Years 7-13
All workshops (except the animation workshop) cost £120 for half a day (plus materials for visual arts activities)For enquiries or to book any workshop please contact Beci Jamieson on
Tel: 01302 341662 or Email: beci@thepoint.org.uk
Fluffy feelings and touchy felt
Visual Arts - The early years foundation stage
Using all our senses with touchy-feely, fluffy fleece and a variety of smelly natural fibres to add texture, the group will explore the traditional craft of felt making with artist Susan Forbes. Together you will make rainbow coloured 2D and 3D felt creations. This involves playing with hot soapy water, lots of pulling, rubbing, rolling, rinsing and squeezing while learning lots of new ways of working both together and individually, expressing ourselves with a new language of words and feelings whilst being curious and having fun!
All workshops cost £120 for half a day (plus materials for visual arts activities)For enquiries or to book any workshop please contact Beci Jamieson on
Tel: 01302 341662 or Email: beci@thepoint.org.uk
I’m dreaming of a green Christmas! – Music and Drama
The early years foundation stage, years 1-6 and special schools
Using song, rhythm and storytelling techniques, music and drama worker Beci Jamieson will lead the class in exploring the joys of giving through looking at the Christmas story or tales about other celebrations, using an old forgotten box as stimulus.
All workshops cost £120 for half a day (plus materials for visual arts activities)For enquiries or to book any workshop please contact Beci Jamieson on
Tel: 01302 341662 or Email: beci@thepoint.org.uk
Wheel of fortune - Visual Arts
The early years foundation stage and years 1-8
Using an old bicycle wheel(s), visual artist Kate Sully will show the group how they can transform it into a beautiful group sculpture. The children can get creative threading and weaving a range of materials around the wheel – a great way to develop fine motor skills. The end result... a total transformation from dirty dull wheel to exciting colourful wheel of fortune! The finished work can be hung easily on the wall or from the ceiling to decorate your school. The bike wheels will be provided for free by the artist but there will be additional costs for other materials.
All workshops cost £120 for half a day (plus materials for visual arts activities)For enquiries or to book any workshop please contact Beci Jamieson on
Tel: 01302 341662 or Email: beci@thepoint.org.uk
Not a box - Dance
The early years foundation stage, key stage one and special schools (primary aged)
Working with movement artist Faye Roberts the children will explore the book 'Not a Box' by Antoinette Portis. The session will include artist led movement play inspired by the language and places in this imaginative book. The group will then create an interactive and playful space full of boxes which can be explored and added to by the children after the workshop.
All workshops cost £120 for half a day (plus materials for visual arts activities)For enquiries or to book any workshop please contact Beci Jamieson on
Tel: 01302 341662 or Email: beci@thepoint.org.uk
Stumped! - Drama
Years 1-6
In a sleepy woodland town, all the animals live in harmony and every year look forward to the annual paper aeroplane competition. But this year the town is shaken to its roots by the sudden disappearance of its beloved trees.
Using drama and storytelling techniques, drama worker Louise Clarke will transport the class to this woodland town and then the group will take on the role of its inhabitants to solve the mystery of the missing trees.
All workshops cost £120 for half a day (plus materials for visual arts activities)For enquiries or to book any workshop please contact Beci Jamieson on
Tel: 01302 341662 or Email: beci@thepoint.org.uk
Make do and mend – Visual Arts
Years 3 & 4
Inspired by the make do and mend theme from the Second World War visual artist Susan Forbes will show the group a variety of textile techniques and together they will create a tactile patchwork quilt of images based on evacuee children's memories and experience using a variety of recycled garments, rags, wool, felt and fabric.
All workshops cost £120 for half a day (plus materials for visual arts activities)For enquiries or to book any workshop please contact Beci Jamieson on
Tel: 01302 341662 or Email: beci@thepoint.org.uk
It's a paper world – Drama and Puppetry
Years 3-6
Where would you find a girl made of paper? Why, in a paper world of course... And where would you find a paper world? Well, anywhere there is paper lying unused and unloved...
Using drama and storytelling techniques artist Louise Clarke will introduce the group to a paper world. Through the story, children will be encouraged to make their own newspaper puppets and learn basic puppetry skills so they can continue the story and help our girl made of paper on her journey.
All workshops cost £120 for half a day (plus materials for visual arts activities)For enquiries or to book any workshop please contact Beci Jamieson on
Tel: 01302 341662 or Email: beci@thepoint.org.uk
Recycled willow furniture – Visual Arts
Years 3-6 and special schools
Transform an old chair or table into a fantastic piece of outdoor furniture which the school can then use to grown herbs and vegetables in. By weaving willow around an existing frame, visual artist Kate Woodfield will help children to build an extravagant piece of outdoor furniture ready to care for edible plants that will grow into the nooks and crannies.
All workshops cost £120 for half a day (plus materials for visual arts activities)For enquiries or to book any workshop please contact Beci Jamieson on
Tel: 01302 341662 or Email: beci@thepoint.org.uk
Recycled forest building – Visual Arts
Years 3-6 and special schools
Working with visual artist, Kate Woodfield, hang twinkling pieces of plastic around spaces in your school and then fill them with plants and animals built from a range of recyclable materials. Using bottles, bags, cartons and boxes the children will create animals, insects, plants and flowers to live in the new recycled forest.
All workshops cost £120 for half a day (plus materials for visual arts activities)For enquiries or to book any workshop please contact Beci Jamieson on
Tel: 01302 341662 or Email: beci@thepoint.org.uk
Re-mixing sounds - Music
Years 3-13
Working with DJ Ian Byatt, a group of 10 children will be able to learn the skills of using decks to recycle and change sounds and become their own DJ.
All workshops cost £120 for half a day (plus materials for visual arts activities)For enquiries or to book any workshop please contact Beci Jamieson on
Tel: 01302 341662 or Email: beci@thepoint.org.uk
Not so rubbish music - Music
Years 3-13 and special schools
Using everyday found objects, the students will work with Musician Phill Howley to learn how to extract sounds from these items and then structure these sounds into a full blown musical work.
All workshops cost £120 for half a day (plus materials for visual arts activities)For enquiries or to book any workshop please contact Beci Jamieson on
Tel: 01302 341662 or Email: beci@thepoint.org.uk
Recycled Moves - Dance
Years 5-11 and special schools
Recycle your moves from old classics to new dance steps with dancer, Hayley Beecher. Create your own group dance and become the choreographer.
All workshops cost £120 for half a day (plus materials for visual arts activities)For enquiries or to book any workshop please contact Beci Jamieson on
Tel: 0132 341662 or Email: beci@thepoint.org.uk
Recycle your viewpoint... see your world in a different light – Dance
Years 7-13
This workshop is designed to change your everyday surroundings into something a little more special by taking pupils on a journey to create a dance performance that is site specific. Working with dancer Chemaine Cooke, the group will look at dancing outside of the traditional theatre space.
All workshops cost £120 for half a day (plus materials for visual arts activities)For enquiries or to book any workshop please contact Beci Jamieson on
Tel: 01302 341662 or Email: beci@thepoint.org.uk
Something a little bit different:
Animate your green ideas... - Animation
Years 7-13
Working with WAK Studios over a whole day a handful of pupils from your school can work with an artist to create your very own short animation sequence highlighting issues about the environment.
Unlike the other ArtyEd sessions, this workshop will cost £300 all inclusive and will end with a product that could appear on your website. WAK Studios is a multiple-award winning design, animation and training company based in Doncaster.
For enquiries or to book any workshop please contact Beci Jamieson on
Tel: 01302 341662 or Email: beci@thepoint.org.uk
Please let us know how you feel about ArtyEd. Your ideas for future workshops and feedback are welcome. Please email Beci
Jamieson with your comments and ideas.
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