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‘… my eyes may have learnt…’
AN ARTIST IN THE SCHOOL
•The benefits of working with a practising artist in the school are numerous and can be of great use to teachers.
• The National Curriculum emphasises the importance for pupils to gain knowledge and understanding of how artists work, but the experience can be of benefit to both the artist and teacher through the sharing of professional practices.
Looking at tonal qualities with charcoal
• The artist will bring additional knowledge, new working processes, another professional perspective and first hand experience.
•It provides a luxury in a busy school timetable to devote solely to investigation, making, and understanding, through a shared workshop situation with time for discussion and reflection.
•The excitement generated by the constructive use of the "non-teacher" in school can be useful to the atmosphere of the day and add to the enjoyment of the experience and aid stimulation.
•The experience can expand expectations, allow risk taking, experimentation, the acceptance of failure as well as success of a shared learning and making situation.
Pupils charcoal drawing after Herman
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