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START Ad Feb 2010:Layout 1 15/02/2010 16:34 Page 1 Number 342010 £7.50 01225F: 810134 01225 812730T: www.nsead.orgISSN 1479-0459 NSEAD3 Mason’s Wharf, Potley Lane,Corsham, Wiltshire, 9FYSN13 ‘Everything you need for planning and teaching art in the primary classr oom.’ Val Hughes, Longcot & Fernham CE Primary School, START Magazine book review Book 1 – Ages 5-6 A NEW COMPLETE ART & DESIGN SCHEME FOR S THE MAGAZINE FOR PRIMARY AND PRE-SCHOOL TEACHERS OF ART, CRAFT AND DESIGN ALL PRIMARY CLASS TEACHERS ART Everything you need to teach: drawing, painting, printing, sculpture, digital media, collage and textiles. Watch Art Express being used in the classroom: www.youtube.com/acblackbooks Every section contains practical sessions of work, learning objectives and an assessment for learning checklist. Book 1 – Ages 5-6 CD-ROM with: l virtual gallery l artist’s work l photographs l children’s work l pupil resources l teacher assessments l pupil self-assessment l whiteboard presentations Expressionist printmaking Plus PRINTMAKING Cardboard relief printing Spreading good practice with Single User Licence £34.99 ISSUE Adventures in printmaking an art tent Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Book 5 Book 6 Site Licence £150.00 Allotments, printing Outdoor art project Ages 6-7 Ages 7-8 Ages 8-9 Ages 9-10 Ages 10-11 and handmade mixed Special needs media books Poster To celebrate the publication of Art Express we are offering The British Museum: exploring COMPETITION! the rich diversity of printmaking free copies of Book 1 to the first 100 people to sign up to our COMPETITION! children’s newsletter. Email publicity@acblack with the subject header ‘Art Express’ to enter. COMPETITION! www.acblack.com/artexpress START 1 Number 34, 2010 Contents Contents Page 20 Greenspace Page 2 Start news & editorial Page 4 Gallery round-up Page 6 Hands-on in the classroom: Expressionist printmaking Page 8 Outdoor project: Greenspace Arts Project: Poster an innovative community British Museum outdoor project Page 10 Sharing good practice: Spreading good practice with an art tent Page 12 Special Needs: art allows all children the freedom to explore Page 14 Printmaking feature: Adventures in printmaking – via Art Express Page 20 Page 15 The Kendal Fell Project Cardboard relief printing Page 15 Printmaking feature: Cardboard relief printing Page 18 Textiles: Our Town quilt project Page 20 Printmaking feature: The Kendal Fell Project: allotments, printing and handmade mixed media books Page 23 Book reviews Page 24 Readers reveal all Poster: The British Museum: exploring the rich diversity Page 18 of printmaking Textiles: Our Town quilt project Copyright ©2010 NSEAD. All rights reserved. With the exception of fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission in writing from the copyright holder. Subscribers to START may make photocopies for teaching Kaleidoscope Cover image: Greenspace purposes free of charge provided such copies are not resold. Authors’ views in this publication Please note: While every effort is made to check websites mentioned in START, some are not necessarily those of the NSEAD. may contain images unsuitable for young children. Please check any references Editor: Michèle Kitto, [email protected] Design: SteersMcGillan Design Ltd: 01225 465546 www.steersmcgillan.co.uk NSEAD Annual Conference 2010 prior to use in the classroom. Please note that the username to access units of Advertising Sales: [email protected] work on the NSEAD website has changed to ‘patchwork’ and the password to ‘quilt’. Publisher: National Society for Education in Art & Design, 3 Mason’s Wharf, Potley Lane See page 25 for further details. Corsham, Wiltshire SN13 9FY T:01225 810134 F:01225 812730 www.nsead.org Saturday 6th – Sunday 7th March 2010 START THE MAGAZINE FOR PRIMARY AND PRE-SCHOOL TEACHERS OF ART, CRAFT AND DESIGN 2 3 News News/Editorial Art and design: preparing for the the Foundling Museum in London, new primary curriculum 10 March 2010 at the Hastings Museum Friday 23 April and Art Gallery, and 19 March 2010 at This course will focus on one of the Leeds Art Gallery. Thanks to generous From the Editor START proposed six areas of learning and funding from the Maaike McInnes will consider how to inspire children Charitable Trust each Catalyst day to be successful learners, confident costs only £45 per place. individuals and responsible citizens News – all of which are key aims of the new ACTION Art! FOR SCHOOLS primary curriculum. Through practical A new year and a new decade – how If your budget is being squeezed, Two galleries in the north east of workshop sessions participants will time flies! At the start of this new decade, remember that we can help. As a England – BALTIC in Gateshead and the explore a variety of key art and an interesting project to work on with subscriber to START you benefit from the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern design processes essential to the pupils could be an examination of how amazing ‘members only’ section of the Art (mima) – with NHS North East are new curriculum. art might be portrayed and displayed in NSEAD website. This is full of case DON’T MIss OUT ON THE inviting regional schools to enter the 2020. Will the next ten years bring studies, health and safety information, The course fee of £100 per person Action Art! for Schools competition. LarGEst TEACHING changes? For the better? lesson plans, articles and, importantly, includes refreshments, but not lunch. The prize fund is worth £10,000 and ten back copies of START online. Do also sign RESOURCE EVER MadE For tickets telephone 020 7323 8181 regional schools will be chosen from I am always amazed by the breadth, up for the RSS newsfeeds that will keep or email [email protected] among the entrants to work with a talent and imagination of art teachers all We’re surrounded by the you up to date on all things to do in the professional artist for one week during over the country. If I were to give you the largest teaching resource ever world of art education between issues. their summer term. same painting or object you would come made: buildings and places. CataLYST: INspIRING ART START comes out four times a year in up with hundreds of different projects to Yet all too often we don’t use Working with a professional artist to October, February/March, April and IDEas FOR TEACHErs inspire your pupils. Now is the time that this resource in our teaching – explore ideas around health and June. To make sure you never miss Catalyst is series of eight arts-based art teaching can really capitalise on this even though most of it is free. Engaging wellbeing from the Change4Life a copy, renew by direct debit. teacher inspiration days running across creativity. All schools and all Places aims to remedy that. We want to campaign, pupils will embark on a CABE’S GrEEN DAY: FUN the 2009/10 academic year. At each departments are being affected by the Please do keep in touch with ideas help teachers to exploit the buildings, wonderful creative journey that will training day teachers will work with TIMES. SERIOUS LEssONS. credit crunch and so I urge you to re-use and offers of articles: your input it is streets, parks, squares, grand historic culminate in the production of their very professional artists to focus on Green Day is an event for primary and what you can. Where budgets have what makes START so inspiring. locations, local neighbourhoods that own artwork. To enter the competition interactive and innovative teaching ideas secondary schools (KS1 to 3) run by disappeared or are insufficient see if you surround them – what is known as the schools are asked to submit a short Yours in art for Key Stage 2. The Catalyst day works the Council for Architecture and the can fill the gaps by swapping resources built environment – to produce rich and proposal to BALTIC outlining how they with three art forms selected from Built Environment (CABE) to encourage with other schools, or making use of powerful teaching, and absorbing would like to approach the theme and poetry, the visual arts, drama, thinking about sustainability. Our free your local scrap store. Find out what learning. The Commission for work with an artist. Entries will be judged storytelling, dance and music. There are resources support teachers in skills and resources local businesses Architecture and the Built Environment on their level of innovation, creativity and a maximum of 30 places available on delivering lessons focused on climate or your parents can offer. Perhaps (CABE) and English Heritage have joined inspiration. The ten schools which each training day. At the end of the day change, buildings and spaces. We also uniquely within the school, your forces to develop this project and create submit the best applications will each participant takes away with them offer free training for school staff to department can work creatively to Michèle Claire Kitto the definitive guide. participate in the Action Art! for Schools the 120-page Catalyst: Inspiring Arts increase their confidence and their produce great projects despite financial Editor project and have their artwork exhibited Visit www.engagingplaces.org.uk to Ideas for Teachers resource book. This ability to help their schools run more cutbacks. Keep on standing up for art [email protected] at BALTIC and mima in September 2010. freely access hundreds of teaching provides a lasting resource and contains sustainably. Green Day launches on and design. Fight its corner. It is such Schools interested in taking part should resources, details of events, case studies 60 different arts teaching activities.