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CPD, Staff Training
and Consultancy
For schools in and around Orpington and
the London Borough of Bromley

ART and DT Staff CPD including specialist skills training, available on request - to be planned to fit your school's needs.

 

Drawing upon 15 years experience leading Art & DT in primary and secondary schools, Mrs G has been delivering tailored staff training to NQTs, Bromley Collegiate, SCITT, WRTA, LSEAT, KS2&3 conferences and delivering primary workshops. Please get in touch to discuss our requirements.  Listed below is a sample of what is on offer, but you can email nickygal@icloud.com with your enquiry.

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Visiting Artist / workshop details:

  • Meet the Artist – overview of Mrs G’s art portfolio + follow up ideas - up to 1hr on Zoom

  • Half day visiting artist – presentation of Mrs G’s artwork + chosen practical workshop

  • Live Zoom art skills sessions for KS1 or KS2 – up to 1hr

  • DT (K’nex) construction challenges – whole or half day depending on requirements

  • Staff meeting workshop to provide skills training such as clay, printing, figure drawing, CAMSetc

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Example of themes for practical art sessions & CPD in schools (happy to discuss others):

  • Staff CPD designed to meet specific needs of schoolsProgression planning from EYFS to KS5

  • Field poppy art workshop – finger painting and brush work, flowers and insects (alla Mrs G)

  • Skylines art workshop – linked to Future Eco Worlds & sustainability

  • Line and scribble art workshop - linked to Paul Klee

  • Figure drawing workshop - linked to Anthony Gormley & Rachel Ducker, pencil use, shade and tone, proportion, wire sculpture

  • Portraits drawing workshop – linked to Picasso & Klee, pencil use, shade and tone, facial proportion

  • Basic clay skills workshop – how to work clay, produce slab, coil and pinch pots (links to ancient Greece and modern ceramics)

  • Charcoal drawing workshop - using still life as a focus for the study of tone, shade, texture and form

  • Perspective workshop - using pencil drawing and watercolour paint to create landscape images

  • Waterclour painting - learning techniques of line and wash, layering texture and colour

  • Ways into Abstract - exploring starting points and processes to achieve expressive abstract artworks

  • Positive and negative imagery in artwork linked to optical illusion - links to Escher - drawing/painting/maths

  • Great Fire of London workshop - linked to various international artists, oil pastel technique, group silhouette-linked artworks

  • The art of Winston Churchill - grid method based on Winston's landscape painting Chartwell

  • DT - K’nex Tower of Strength challenge, Bridges (structures) paper challenge etc.

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Price guide for sessions booked directly with Mrs G (negotiable):

1 hour live Zoom session from £150

Half day/3hrs in school from £400

Full day in school/6hrs from £600

Resource costs to be discussed and additional.

​​For a taster of my teaching style (!), please visit my YouTube Channel; Art with Mrs G ​

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