Schools

Collaborative projects

I am available to run collaborative projects in schools for all ages. these projects will typically involve taught workshops for children, using a wide range of art and design techniques and materials. As part of the process, I am available to offer CPD to teachers through involvement in my workshops, and provide support for follow up projects.

With many years of teaching experience, both in a long term permanent post, and also as supply, I am confident delivering workshops to large groups of children of all ages, and tailoring the content to meet all needs. I have all relevant safeguarding and insurance policies in place, and I can deliver workshops where there will be no expectation on schools to help with preparation, materials or input, unless requested.

I charge very variable rates depending on lots of different factors, so please contact me on outoftheboxcreativearts@gmail.com to discuss further

Current and past projects

Woodingdean Primary School, 2022-3

Animals project - running workshops for all classes, teaching children about sustainability, creativity with different materials, and using unwanted/donated/found/recycled materials to create 14 animal portraits to represent each class. Children helped design the animals and/or attach the materials using hammers/drills/mastik guns.

Infant playground bug murals - Children from the after school club created pieces of all-weather art for display in the Reception playground. Every child had the opportunity to use graffiti sprays for the backgrounds, take apart electricals and design bugs using electrical parts, then fix them on the boards.

CPD staff meeting for all teachers looking at drawing techniques and starting points.

Rudyard Kipling Primary School, 2023-4

Inspirational figures project - running half-day art workshops for all classes across the school, incorporating children’s art work into 15 finished large scale mixed media portraits to represent each class in the school. Work produced by children from nursery to year 6.

carden primary school, may 2024

Children participated in a collaborative art work as commissioned by the Scrap Space Resource Centre in Shoreham. The work was made from junk materials, to form the letters of the quote “One Person’s Trash is Another One’s Treasure”. The piece is on permanent display on the outside wall of their centre.

carden primary school, june 2024

Children made a collaborative driftwood collage after studying the work of artists Teddy H Salad. Teddy has since asked to display the piece at his July exhibition at the Fisher Theatre in Bungay, Suffolk.

Elm Grove Primary School, 2024

Children from the after school club helped to design and assemble a mural for their playground spelling out the letters PLAY and made from decorated offcuts of wood which they fixed themselves using drills and hammers. They also helped to graffiti spray the background.

artist in residence for our place in moulsecoomb and bevendean for the brighton festival 2024

Workshops delivered to children in Bevendean and Moulsecoomb Primary School and BACA Secondary School during the course of March and April, in the run-up to a final event for the festival in May. Schools had workshops making cardboard arcade games workshop and reverse engineering/junk sculpture building.

carden primary school after school club feb 2024

Collaborative mixed media piece, including drawn background, plasticine models and plastic toys, photographed and entered into Brighton Fringe Festival family program design competition - runner up

cardboard city at st christopher’s school, hove, sept 2023

A day of cardboard construction and build for years R-3, to tie in with curriculum areas.