CPD Provider: Go Sketch

Workshop/Course Themes & Tags: Art, Drawing, Sketchbook, Skills, Sketching, Painting, Clay

Who is your CPD aimed at?: Key Stage 1 Practitioners, Key Stage 2 Practitioners

Can your CPD be delivered to practitioners online?: Yes

What delivery methods are available?: INSET, Twilight Sessions, Staff Meetings, Webinars

Delivery Locations: England, Wales, Scotland

CPD/INSET Course Summary: 

Do you want a mindful, creative and practical INSET day? Would your teachers love more support when teaching Art & Design? Would your Governors enjoy a relaxing team building art activity with your staff?

We love running inset training for primary teachers around the Southwest and beyond. We are even able to run a live workshop online. We have a range of teacher training workshops to choose from and can even plan a bespoke workshop based on your school's topic or curriculum needs for that term.

We can:

• provide an after school workshop with your staff after school

• provide a workshop as part of an inset day

• come and work with a group of teachers to help plan a particular topic.

Alternatively, show your staff and governors just how creative you can be with a unique team building session! The founder of GO SKETCH, Emma Shannon, is a specialist art teacher as well as being a qualified primary teacher which a good understanding of the school environment. We are fully insured and DBS checked. All art resources are supplied by us. All you need to do is supply a work space and away we go!

Creative Sketchbooks

In this practical hands on session teachers will learn how:

•  to use sketchbooks as a playground of ideas

• to use sketchbooks to teach children how to explore, take risks and experiment

• to explore the creative process where children feel safe to make 'mistakes'

• to encourage children to annotate their sketchbooks

Includes:

• Sketchbook annotations prompt sheet to support children when annotating their work

• Sketchbook Ideas sheet for KS1, lower KS2 and Upper KS2

• Email support offered after session when teachers planning their sessions

• A sketchbook for each participant

This session is taught in a practical way so teachers get a chance to create mini pieces of art or even the beginnings of their own sketchbook! I will bring all the resources we need.

Drawing Skills

In this practical hands on session teachers will gain confidence by learning a range of drawing skills linked to the 7 elements of art including:

•  Line

• Shape

• Form

• Tone

• Texture

• Colour

• Space (including perspective, composition, positive and negative space)

Includes:

This workshop includes drawing skills progression sheets that break down each element into skills that each year group could focus on to ensure there is progression in drawing skills within your curriculum.

Reception classes don't need to focus on drawing skills in the same way but we can include examples of what you can do in Reception as well as providing a progression sheet that is separate from the elements of art.

This is taught in a practical way with art activities that the teachers can take part in

Air-Dry Clay in the Classroom

In this practical hands on session teachers will learn:

• various clay building techniques that they can use in their class

• health and safety considerations when working with air-dry clay

• cross-curricular links using clay

• tips and tricks for an easier clay lesson!

Includes:

• clay joining handout to use in the classroom

• clay rule posters

 This is taught in a practical way so teachers get a chance to create their own clay sculptures!

Painting in the Classroom

In this practical hands on art inset workshop, teachers can learn a range of painting skills such as:

•  Watercolour painting techniques

• Acrylic vs Tempura or poster paints and when to use them

• Using Brusho

• Colour theory

• Using an artist focus in class

• Tone and texture

• Composition and focal point

• Tips and tricks to a calm painting lesson

This workshop can be tailored to suit your needs as a school and can even be based around a chosen topic.

This is taught in a practical way so teachers get a chance to create their own masterpieces!

Writing and Drawing Comics

In this practical hands on art inset workshop, teachers can learn how to teach comics to include:

•  Character Development

• Features of comics

• Using movement in comics

• Comic direction

• Story planning

• Comic Strip Structure

• Longer comics / one panel comics

• Tips and tricks when teaching comics

This workshop can be tailored to suit your needs as a school and can even be based around a chosen topic. Great for world book day!

This is taught in a practical way so teachers get a chance to create their own mini comics!

Additional Information: 

Please contact us for a quote.