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Wednesday Workshops
INFANTS - Term 4, 2010
Being an Artist
Cost – free |
Art with Heart Cost - £3 to cover
materials Leader – Helen Lawrence The children will find
their own symbols to create personal artwork.
Topics will include banner making, mask making and mandala painting,
using fabrics, paint, feathers, beads and sparkly stuff. |
Pottery Cost - £30 for term Leader – Gary Woods
(Potter) |
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Gymnastics Cost - £10 for term |
Taste of Art Cost – £1 to cover
materials An ever popular workshop
allowing children to express themselves through a number of different art
media. You may work with some of the
following; clay, photography, paint, pastels, collages, sewing. |
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Sketching and Drawing Cost – Free |
Cost - £21 for term |
Playground Games Cost – Free |
Sally’sDancing Cost – Free
Leader - Sally (TA) Another chance to get
into the swing of the maypole and refresh our favourite dances – all with the
aim of performing for the school BBQ and/or the Village Fete! Or even the chance to show off at an
assembly !! |
Ball
Skills
Cost – £10 for term Leader – Coach |
Fun and the Bible
Cost – free Leader – Reverend Alison Fry |
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Football Cost - £10 for term Leader – coach |
Drum Fun
Cost - £18 for term Leader – Trish Verecchia |
Board Games Cost - free Leader - Lin (TA)
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Being anArtistCost – free A hugely popular workshop that teaches the children to discover the artist within by exploring a range of media: drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and photography |
Art with Heart Cost - £3 to cover
materials The children will find
their own symbols to create personal artwork.
Topics will include banner making, mask-making and mandala painting,
using fabrics, paint, feathers, beads and sparkly stuff. |
Pottery Cost - £30 for term Leader – Gary Woods
(Potter) This is a wonderful
opportunity to spend a term working with clay under the supervision of a
professional potter. Work with |
Cookery
Cost – £3 to cover
ingredients. |
BUILD IT! Cost - £2 for materials Build it big, build it
small! Can you build a tower of paper
cups that reaches the ceiling? How
strong a structure can you make using gumdrops and toothpicks? Make a kid-sized cube using wooden dowels
and rubber bands. Construct
roller-coasters that race marbles through jumps and loop the loops. |
Taste of Art Cost – £1 to cover
materials An ever popular workshop
allowing children to express themselves through a number of different art
media. You may work with some of the
following; clay, photography, paint, pastels, collages, sewing. |
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Sketching and Drawing Cost – Free Take a sketch book, a
pencil and some ordinary looking objects and make them come to life with your
drawing skills. Sally will be able to
help you develop those pencil skills and create some amazing works of art. |
Steel Pans
Cost - £18 for term |
Journalism Cost- free Are you interested in how
radio programmes get made? Would you
like to interview someone and edit the audio track to make an interesting
radio story? If you could see yourself reading the news reports on Radio 1 or
Radio 4, come along and try your hand at some reporting! |
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Gymnastics Cost - £10 for term Tumble, roll, bend, flip,
balance, leap, and jump your way through this workshop designed to build your
skills and confidence on the mat. |
The Great Outdoors Cost – Free This is a MUDDY workshop- wear warm old outdoor
clothes and WELLIES. Explore outside using
your imagination, go pond-dipping, bug hunting and build a den as you play
with nature nearby. Please sign
permission slip on front cover. |
Fun andthe BibleCost – freeLeader – Reverend Alison Fry
It’s the fabulous ‘FAB’
club! Each week explores a different bible
story or church festival and always includes something for you to make and
bring home. Suitable for all ages,
this club enables children to experience our Christian heritage through
crafts, stories, games and songs … and FUN ! |
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Football Cost - £10 for term An opportunity to just
play football on a Wednesday afternoon with your friends. The coach can provide helpful hints to
improve your skills and will referee the match. |
Drum Fun
Cost - £18 for term Make a drum and learn
drumming through fun and games. Work
on a performance for an assembly, make costumes and percussion
instruments. Come and have fun
learning Samba beats and rhythms. |
Ball
Skills
Cost – £10 for term Want to get better with a
ball? This workshop will help you
improve all aspects of ball skills to help you catch, throw, bat, dribble and
kick. Every session includes some game
play to practice skills. |
Sally’s Dancing
Cost – Free Another chance to get
into the swing of the maypole and refresh our favourite dances – all with the
aim of performing for the school BBQ and/or the Village Fete! Or even the chance to show off at an
assembly !! |
Board Games Cost - free Forget about computer
games for an afternoon and come along to play original board games with your
friends. Learn new games or make up
your own board game if you want. |
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At Batheaston, the organisation of the teaching week has been modified to fit into 4 ½ days. The start/finish times of the day have been very slightly altered and the lunchtime period shortened. In this way, we have built on research that demonstrates how academic learning tends to be more successful during the first part of the day. We have also cut down the lunchtime break, which, for some, was felt to be a long time (particularly in cold and wet weather). A whole programme of exciting clubs is now established, currently including: Art with Heart, Fun and the Bible, Yoga, Indian Art, Cookery, Pottery, Drama, Being and Artist, Dance, Taste of Art, Journalism, Cinema Club, Sign Language, Steel Pans, Drum Fun.
Sports coaching is also available, currently Basketball and Football.
Many activities are free of charge apart from an initial contribution of £1.50 towards administration costs, but parents also have the choice of their children attending clubs with a small charge to cover the cost of the specialist teacher and/or materials (e.g. Basketball at £10 per term; Drum Fun at £15 per term). For lots of parents, this will enable their children to receive sports coaching during a weekday session, and thus save them from using weekend or evening time for this purpose. School swimming sessions have also been moved to Wednesday afternoons, thus avoiding children missing lesson times for this learning.
Because the Wednesday afternoon workshops are not official school time, children do not have to attend school during this session. Parents can take their children home or on outings from 1.00pm - or arrange dental or doctor appointments for this time, in the knowledge that they won’t be missing any lessons. There is a very careful registration and procedure for notifying the school if a child is given permission by parents to leave the school on a Wednesday afternoon.
For the class teachers, Wednesday afternoons are no longer part of their teaching week. They will usually spend this time in team planning and preparation with colleagues of a similar teaching age group. This will be advantageous for them, enabling them to reduce the amount of evening and weekend time spent in this way.
The Headteacher or Deputy will normally be on site, and either the KS1 or KS2 teachers will remain in school to work together on their planning. In this way, should it ever be needed, there is additional adult support available. The workshop programme is, however, fully staffed by members of the school team and supervised by the Workshop Co-ordinator, Sheena Tavendale. Community volunteers, parents and artists/specialists (all of whom have completed necessary CRB police checks and first aid courses etc.) also lead activities.
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