About Art Trips

This page can help you answer the two most common questions we are asked:

• Why?
• How can I justify it?

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Enhance GCSE & A Level coursework.

Inspire the artists of the future in Years 5 to 8.

Curriculum Coverage

Hands-on Art Adventures aims to ensure that investigating and making includes exploring and developing ideas while evaluating and developing the children's own art work. Newfound knowledge and understanding will inform this process.

As far as possible all visits and art activities can be tailored to target your choice of attainment target, art genre or process.

Museum & Gallery visits with a difference

Guided discussion and activities on-site, in direct response to:

• the works of art they see before them
• the art they see being created before them
• the materials and processes they see being demonstrated

Art for Art's Sake

Art is all about experience and possibility. It is about individual creativity, the opportunity to experiment and explore with a range of materials and processes. It is about self-esteem: producing, sharing and being proud of, a piece of art work that has come from their own ideas.

Hands-on Art Adventures provides a unique opportunity for the children to find their own ideas and inspiration during a day of art activities in the local countryside as well as hands-on art activities during visits to museums and art galleries - and develop these into art work in the studio back at the Hostel.

Cross-curricular links

English, PSHE, Geography, ICT, History, Science…