Collaborative Design and Build – day1

Architect and Designer James Sale Joined us from his practice Co-DB (Collaborative design and build) to lead our popular architecture inspired course. Describing themselves as a team of experienced designers, doers and makers they are well placed to help children tackle large scale building projects, encouraging them to solve problems and see opportunities wherever they […]

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Feb, 12, 2018
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Wild Art on Wimbledon Common – day 2

We arrived for the second morning of our Wild Art on Wimbledon Common course to our undisturbed camp – always a relief to find our art work untouched by the nights activities! Click HERE to see DAY 1’s activities Today was to be mostly about mud, so we mixed a gorgeous pile of sticky stuff […]

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Oct, 25, 2017
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Animation Station for Wimbledon Bookfest – Sunday

Day 2 of the Animation Station for Wimbledon Bookfest saw us working on larger scale animations with Artist and Illustrator Amy Pennington, as well as consolidating our work on stop motion animations using the emotion app on the i-Pad. Click HERE for details of the Saturday workshop. We started by looking at animations made at […]

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Oct, 10, 2017
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Paint the Great Outdoors, course 2 – day 1

The second of our ‘Paint the Great Outdoors’ summer courses took place at South Park Gardens in Wimbledon. A beautiful little park full of wonderful stimuli for the children to work from. As the children arrived they made a personalised portfolio case to hold their work. We then unrolled a large piece of heavyweight […]

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Jul, 31, 2017
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The Art of Change – What, How and Should We? – Day 2

During day 2 of our Half Term Course – The Art of Change, our game based on decisions and consequences really started to take shape. Artist Sarah Carne took the children on a 2-day adventure into conceptual art with a political twist. Click the link to Day 1 to see how the course began. After designing […]

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Jun, 05, 2017
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The Art of Change: What, How and Should we? – day 1

In this Half Term’s art course, children alongside artist Sarah Carne have been getting just a little bit political in the lead up to the General Election. We have been using art to help children find their voice, explore how decisions have consequences and how they can make a difference in the world. We have […]

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Jun, 01, 2017
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Thinking in Three Dimensions – Day 2

During the second day of our 2 day course for the Easter Holidays, Thinking in Three Dimensions,we continued experimenting with building, joining, wrapping, painting, gold leafing and the children’s favourite ‘free making’ sessions. Take a look at DAY 1’s activities by clicking the link HERE We started the morning with painting the block and pebble […]

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Apr, 17, 2017
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Thinking in Three Dimensions – Day 1

This Easter holiday we have been Thinking in Three Dimensions with artist Abigail Hunt. Our 2-day sculpture course warmed up with a round of ‘Kims’ Game’ Children had to memorise and draw selected three dimensional objects after they were covered over. Abigail showed the children a wide variety of sculptures and installations to give them […]

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Apr, 12, 2017
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Animation Station – Animations are ready

We are happy to announce that all the films made at the Animation Station during February half term are available online to watch. You can read about what happened during the course by clicking the links below Animation Station Day One and Day Two We have compiled all the children’s works into 3 short showreels. […]

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Mar, 13, 2017
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Animation Station – day 2

Day 2 at the Animation Station saw children developing their animation skills in new ways, we experimented with full body animation, made new characters using collage and perfected our skills using the i-motion app. We began the day by looking at what we had achieved and watching a showreel of the films made […]

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Feb, 15, 2017
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