Educational focus and aims

Our one week camp builds on previous years experience to offer a wider range of exciting art activities. The camp is a fun filled journey into new territories creative and educational.The summer camp is where we explore a number of art forms together in small groups tailored to individual student needs. Creative Art Start will help the individual student to:

• express ideas and feelings creatively
• gain new art skills and refine old ones
• discover his/her own art style
• work independantly with guidance
• make new friends
• Create and find new ideas through play.
  • Play as part of our teaching philosphy
  • The Secret of Childrens Play
  • Playtime and Child Development.

Art activities include:

- Car Design

- STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math)

- Mixed media including painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking

- Puppetry

Architectral Structures and Fort Building

Clay and wooden doll Animation. Set construction and design

- Media Technology .

- Designing and creating computer games

- Bookmaking

- Papermaking

- Music in garage band

- Film and Video

- Photography

These activities enhance:

• problem solving skills
• spatial reasoning
• critical thinking
• risk taking
• communication
• self esteem
• awareness and appreciation of the visual world