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.
*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 and Every Child Matters (contact James to find out more).
Together we can:
- 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
world with their interior, hidden, affective world. Since the natural environment is
the principal source of sensory stimulation, freedom to explore and play with the
outdoor environment through the senses.... is essential for healthy
development of an interior life.”
Professor Robin Moore