Art and Design

Elderly people and young refugees working together in Bristol

Students from the City Academy Bristol, who are refugees or asylum seekers, work hand in hand with a group of elderly people on a joint project to benefit the whole community.The young pupils who may have little or no English, work with the older volunteers in pairs to design and create a mosaic for the Trinity Community Centre, with guidance from artist Victoria Appleton. The activity encourages communication between the two groups to improve the language skills of the students and to bring representatives from old and new communities of Bristol together, helping to break down barriers and build positive relationships.

Cross-Generation Art in Bristol

Explore the importance of performing and visual arts in Cuba

This video explores how performing arts, visual arts and cultural learning are taught in three Cuban schools: a primary, a secondary and a school for young art instructors. The importance of teaching performing and visual arts is a legacy of the 1959 Cuban revolution. Today, the Cuban government continually looks for new and better ways to deliver arts education. Learn about the sophisticated support that televised classes on Cuba's educational channel provide. Young art instructors are trained from the age of 14 to teach music, dance, drama and the visual arts in primary and secondary schools across the country. Cubans believe that school should be the cultural centre of the community. It should be a place where young people can learn about their cultural heritage, and develop the skills to express themselves creatively.

Cuba - Performing Arts

Schools collaborate to produce an online advent calendar

Electric December gives primary and secondary schools the opportunity to work on challenging ICT and animation art projects alongside media professionals. This programme follows the experiences of a rural primary in Cornwall and an urban secondary school in Bristol as they use video, animation techniques and Flash to create a digital, online advent calendar. The initiative, created by Bristol's Watershed Media Group, was launched in 2004 with a live web conference between the two schools. During the programme, the teachers talk about the initiative's benefits and discuss the enjoyment of obtaining new skills from such collaborations.

Electric December

STEM activities are introduced in a KS3 cross-curricular approach

A Year 8 class build model gliders as part of a KS3 cross-curricular STEM project, exploring the science and engineering behind flight. The aim of the lesson at Ash Manor School in Surrey is to construct a working glider. Students start by looking at wings found in nature and produce blueprints of their gliders on paper, before constructing a working prototype. After initial testing they re-evaluate their designs and modify them based around concepts of drag, thrust, weight and design. Finally the whole class launch their models to see whose design has flown the furthest. This video shows the impact a well thought out STEM activity can have in bringing to life the future possibilities available to all pupils.

Finding Time for STEM

A look at three ICT resources for secondary art

In this episode we highlight three resources for secondary art. Senior researcher Tony Wheeler recommends: <ul> <li>Morph 2.5 - image blending software from Sunburst Technology</li> <li>Flickr.com - a photo-sharing website from Yahoo</li> <li>iMovie - a video editing package, from Apple Computers Ltd</li> </ul> Wheeler joins presenter Hermione Cockburn in the studio, along with panelists Michelle Kitto, art teacher at Woodeaton Manor School in Oxford, and Ray Barker, director of the British Education Suppliers Association.

ICT Special: Secondary Art

How maintaining personal art interests can benefit art teachers

The "Artist Teacher Scheme" is a national programme that runs half-termly CPD courses for teachers who are artists. The aim is to encourage teachers to develop or regain their own personal practice as contemporary artists. Artist Teachers focuses on the experience of one art teacher, Darren O'Connor from Welling Specialist Art School, as he takes part in one of the scheme's Saturday workshops at The Study Gallery in Poole. The workshop is inspired by the design exhibition at The Study Gallery, an area the workshop organisers feel is often neglected in the curriculum. The programme looks at the use of the workshop for the participants as an individual artists, as well as how it relates to their work as a teacher.

KS3 Art - Artist Teachers

Following a Year 8 classroom photography project

This programme focuses on contemporary art. It is argued that traditional art teaching can create a barrier for those who fear they cannot draw. To overcome this, Henry Ward, head of the faculty of media and visual arts at Welling Specialist Art School, has adopted a contemporary approach and teaches photography as a way into composition and art appreciation. This programme follows a Year 8 classroom project five weeks in. Henry uses film genre photographs to inspire his class to create their own ideas and compositions. Paul Dash, lecturer in education at Goldsmiths College, comments on this and outlines the positive effect contemporary approaches to art can have on students. The programme follows the four stages of the project: <ul> <li> Deconstruction of Cindy Sherman's photographs </li> <li> Ideas forming and sketches </li> <li> Composition and directing </li> <li> Computer manipulation of the images </li> </ul>

KS3 Art - Contemporary Art

Pupils demonstrate the needs of the New Secondary Curriculum

Sophie Leach, subject leader in art and design at The Charter School in Dulwich, helps her pupils to explore themes of locality and identity. The aim of this class is to encourage creativity, problem-solving and risk-taking, as the pupils are encouraged to research and give a brief presentation on four well known artists who work with inanimate objects. In groups, pupils create their own sculptures from objects they've either brought from home or found in the classroom. Students then work with text to help describe the sculptures they've produced. Finally the text is animated by the pupils and superimposed on their work, and each of the sculptures says something about themselves or their community.

KS3 Art and Design - The New Curriculum

Year 8 embark on an experimental cross-curricular rocket project

Eleanor Wilkinson is a maths teacher from Sussex with a big idea for a cross-curricular space and rocket week. Last year she spent 10 days at the Teachers' Space Camp in Alabama - and she came back inspired to enthuse the students and teachers. So she has planned that her Year 8 pupils spend four days looking at space and rockets in subjects as diverse as maths and art, and embark on a project to manage a &pound;1million rocket building budget. Divided into teams by the teachers, the students are encouraged to work independently and think for themselves. But will it be an excuse to mess about - and how do the teachers keep them on task without taking over?

KS3 Cross Curricular - Space and Rocket Week

Year 7 Students take part in a cross-curriculum fashion project

Year 7 students at St. Paul's Catholic College in West Sussex take part in a week long cross-curricular project on fashion, in this inspirational and colourful programme. The pupils learn about the different aspects of the fashion community by creating earrings in their maths lessons, and testing and burning fabrics to test their suitability in their science lessons. Later in RE, they learn about the ethics behind fashion with regard to child labour, the students discuss how this makes them feel, and how they can reflect this in their work. Finally it's time for the big day, and the students demonstrate their artistic flair with a fashion show of the catwalk pieces they have created.

Professional Development for Quality Teaching

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