Art Workshops for Children
Pigeon Art Workshops offers both Art and ‘Design and Technology’ workshops to primary schools and children’s groups. We also run Inset training and seminars for teachers and other professionals. Begun in September 1999 by Briony Jenkins, an experienced artist and primary school teacher, our team of artists and teachers is able to combine artistic expertise and educational experience across the board, including both 2D and 3D activities on large and small, indoor and outdoor scales.
All of the team at Pigeon have worked with primary school children in a variety of settings and are able to make the necessary links with the national curricula. We appreciate the demands and constraints of art as it is taught alongside other curriculum areas. We also appreciate the difficulties that some teachers may have in teaching art and/or D and T. This means that our goals for the teachers and children whom we work with are realistic and achievable.
In our teacher workshops we aim to target both those teachers who are unconfident with art disciplines and the resources and skills required and those who would like to build on existing knowledge.
We are able to provide workshops for primary helpers, whom we recognise as a valuable aid to any hands-on activity within a classroom, and for newly qualified teachers, emphasising classroom management skills during art lessons. We are able to work with classes on mini and larger projects.
What sets us aside from other art groups is that we work with a full class of thirty children for most projects so that schools don’t have to pre-select groups to work with us, enabling each child in a class workshop to have the ‘big’ art experience that we bring into schools. The materials and resources we use in workshops are easily available to schools so that the work we demonstrate can easily be recreated and built on by the school.
In our seminars we work with people who are interested in or are already working in schools or other settings with children and educators, sharing our own expertise and experience. These seminars are advertised locally but can be booked on request, subject to sufficient numbers.
