The creative ecology programme of workshops and longer term projects delivers age appropriate opportunities to learn, through direct creative experience of sustainable materials, the local outdoor environment and the arts.

James Aldridge has extensive experience of working as an artist within schools, setting up inclusive arts projects that enable all children to participate. 

 

By devising activities in partnership with your school, projects can link to existing themes and subject areas whilst presenting opportunities to learn new skills and explore your own natural/cultural heritage.

Through access to a range of media, with reference to the real places in which we live, the creative ecology programme can support learning within subjects that include:

*Art and Design
*Science
*PHSE
*Design and Technology
*Geography

and is informed by schools initiatives such as Eco-Schools, Sustainable Schools, Healthy Schools, Learning Outside the Classroom andEvery Child Matters (contact James to find out more).

Together we can:

Visit local nature reserves, local green spaces, or find new relevance and value within the fabric of a school's own grounds
Explore local museums and art galleries and find our own ways to explore and interpret the exhibits
Create sculptures from natural and recycled materials
Make and use books as visual journals and sketchbooks to explore and record
Construct wearable art-work based on local wildlife or natural features
Experiment with clay, plaster, rubbings, photographs, video and mark-making to document our explorations
Collect found and natural or recycled materials to create collages, assemblages, work in relief, or printing plates

    “Thank you - we really enjoyed the whole experience and feel privileged to have been involved in a community project like this.”                                                                                            

    Class Teacher

    “As a class teacher I often have an ‘end product’ in mind - this was a much more open process where every suggestion and offering was valued and celebrated.”                                          

    Deputy Head Teacher