Inset training:

How to use the gallery with a particular interest in literacy, R.E and history.

School age: KS1

Focus: Take one painting and use it for various activities

"Thank you for a great inset day!"

Teachers from around Hampshire visit Southampton City Art Gallery for a training day.

Inspiring ideas for kinesthetic and auditory implementation of creative lessons in school. The day includes tips on how to inspire children, feel confident in talking about art and how best to integrate Art in cross curricular activities.

Feeling confident when teaching art is achieved when you have a go!
You don't have to be awesome at drawing to be 'good' at art.

Contact me (Kate Whyley) for lesson ideas, help or advice on planning for art. Or to book an artist to visit your school, or InSet training specialised to your schools needs: info@loveart.co.uk

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Wow its been a busy term. Thus the lack of time to report back on Artistic practices!
Loveart has this term been providing an art service at one local primary school. For one afternoon a week the school has run a 'university' for the children: Children are given a range of creative learning opportunities and subscribe to one for 1/2 a term.

Loveart provided a 1/2 term scheme of work for improving artistic skills and art history knowledge for a group of 30 children, ages 5-11, working together. The university which has now run for a term provides the school with professionals delivering key skills and teachers with ppa time.

Topics covered included: Surrealism, Pointillism, Pre-Raphaelites, Collage, Abstraction, Monoprinting and resulted in a large scale display work using all the children's work.

Conceptual art in school

Image: Year six group discussing the scale of pre-rahaelite work by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

The age group frequently guided around Southampton City Art Gallery is between 7-11 (KS 2). It is uplifting to see children interacting and responding to artwork around them. Children seem to appreciate more classical work from Baroque and the Early Renaissance periods.

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What has influenced children to believe that great art is defined through time spent on a piece of work and a craft mastered?

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It is time to encourage those who enjoy artwork to understand the value of conceptual art, development of ideas used when creating. When children are given the opportunity to believe their work is valuable, because of ideas based on representations of the world around them, not on their ability to measure their craftsmansip against a peer, children will access the arts more easily.

Look at Colour!!!

Artwork: Simon Grennan & Christopher Sperandio, Hakim. 2000

Visiting an Art gallery is a valuable aid in developing childrens awareness of the world around them. An introduction to various different types and styles of art proves exciting and stimulates questions and ideas. Four out of thirty (12%) of children in this group had been to a gallery before. The current image shows a piece of artwork created by Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio, this work was used to stimulate thoughts about modern day portraiture, colour and composition.