As a school we have been lucky enough to have a local artist - Nicola Bennet - come to work with us during staff meetings and provide us with professional development around Art in the classroom. As a PRT I have found her wealth of knowledge and experience extremely helpful and in my own way am playing around with some of the ideas that she suggested.
Attached below are the two powerpoint slides that she has shared with us in order to inspire us. During each of these session we were able to experiment with and explore different aspects of her presentations.
Nicola Bennet - Art in the classroom
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At the moment in class we are doing an art portfolio unit where the children are being encouraged to explore a range of different types of art styles. The pieces that we are working on include sketching with charcoal, watercolour sketching, collage, paint, dye and pastel. The children are loving exploring their creativity through this unit and it is a wonderful opportunity to hidden talents emerging from a range of students.
One of the things that Nicola talked about was the way that Art is one of the things that people decide at a very young age that they either can, or cannot, do. I find it quite special that in my classroom a culture has developed where students are so encouraging of each other and of themselves - one wee young boy came up to me today telling me "Miss M - isn't my art great. I am so proud of it and I did my best - it doesn't look exactly like J's one - but I don't mind because it looks how I want it to look."
Another student came up to me whilst he was on independent writing today to discuss his work - he was thrilled with the creativity that he was involved in and shared with me how he was transferring his learning about gesture drawing in sketching into his writing. It was an exciting moment for both of us. My hope is that my students continue to feel this way about their creativity in art and across the curriculum for many years to come.
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