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

Resources for schools

If you are a teacher viewing this site for help with resources. There will be many links available, I will cite the ones recommended by other teachers and personally used, in postings.

The first recommendation is with thanks to two primary school teachers who recently attended a training day. They have been using LCP plans to develop a scheme of work within their school. This resource allows for planning to incorporate all aspects of teaching neccesary to fulfil Artsmark award criteria. There are links to LCP on this site.

Art training day - Primary education

Today 7 more teachers became a little more confident about teaching Art in primary education!!

Due to the sucess of these inset days held once a month, we have decided to develop extra programmes based on very helpful feedback.

Ideas for inclusion on future traning days:
- Skills based workshops: A day specifically based around practical ideas for you to take back to the classroom. To include: Sculpture, working with wire/willow, printing, drawing and collage.

Comments on todays activities:
" An excellent day, the tour was very intereseting and the practical workshop was great."
" The tour was the best bit.... do you have a list of Artists we could use in schools?"
" The day covered everything I was hoping it would and I really enjoyed the tour, I feel much more confident about bringing the children back now - Thank You!"

If you have any further queries or suggestions on what would be useful to include in training please post a comment below or get in touch directly: info@loveart.co.uk