End of Project Sharing Event

On Wednesday 8th October a Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead Museum Learning Project Sharing Event took place at the River & Rowing Museum in Henley-upon-Thames.

Participating schools and museums were invited to share the work they had undertaken and to celebrate the achievements of the project!

The students from the different schools gave presentation about what their projects involved and what they enjoyed about them. 

Wraysbury Primary School Students talking about their art project

The students were also presented with their Arts Award Discover certificates. 

Well done to all 204 students from 8 schools who received an Arts Award through the project!

Riverside Primary School receive their Arts Award Certificates

There was also time for teachers and students from all the schools to hear about the six museum's learning offer for schools and families... 

 and for getting up close with museum handling objects!

As part of the project, a booklet for use by schools and museums has been created to encourage the use of creative arts activities inspired by museum's collections!

You can view and download the booklet by clicking here.

A very special thank you to the following people...

Artswork

Staff at Eton College Collections, Maidenhead Heritage Centre, River & Rowing Museum, Slough Museum, Stanley Spencer Gallery, Windsor and Royal Borough Museum.

Staff and Students at All Saints Primary, Cookham Dean CofE School, Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation, Riverside Primary School, Larchfield Primary School, Khalsa Secondary Academy, Parlaunt Park Primary and Wraysbury Primary School.

4motion Dance Theatre Company

Free Summer Holiday Activities!

As part of the Artswork funded Museum Learning Project we are offering free arts activities at some of the museums in the consortium!

On Wednesday 30th July we will be making tube racers at Maidenhead Heritage Centre from 10.30am - 12pm

On Thursday 31st July 2pm - 3.30pm come and have a go at making henna patterns on candles and cards at Slough Museum

Both admission to the museums and the activities are free!!!

Thursday 14th August we'll be at Windsor Museum making Hawker Hurricane places from 2pm - 3.30pm (admission is free for children, but accompanying adults will be required to pay the £2 admission charge for the museum)

And finally...

We'll be at the River and Rowing Museum from 10.30am - 12pm on Friday 15th August making Olympic torches! (the activity will be held in the education centre and will be free admission, if you would like to visit the main museum you will have to pay the admission fee - see website for more details http://rrm.co.uk/visit/admission)

Parlaunt Park return to Slough Museum!

Parlaunt Park returned to Slough Museum to finish their arts project about different cultural art forms. 

After exploring Polish Pisanki Easter eggs and the festival of Diwali last week, this week we looked at Eid.

We tried out some mendhi patterns on paper with glitter henna cones before trying it out on our hands!

The students then thought about everything they had learnt through the project and decorated a square of a patchwork quilt, using all the different art forms we had looked at the inspire their design!

Here is their finished quilt...

I'm sure you'll agree they are a very talented bunch! Thank you very much for all your hard work!

Wraysbury Primary School

Wraysbury Primary School Year 1 created their own papier mache 3D flowers! They started off with a wooden flower shape and covered it all in newspaper and water mixed with PVA glue until you couldn't see any of the wood underneath!

After they covered it completely in newspaper they covered it in a layer of photographs. They used some of their favourite photographs which they took when they visited Herschel Park! 

They put a final layer of PVA glue mixed with water so when the flower dried it would look all shiny!

Cookham Dean's WWI animation!

Mr Edmond's class at Cookham Dean school have been busy over the past few weeks putting the finishing touches to their First World War animation! 

They have learnt how to create a storyboard, how to design a set and make models of their characters. They have discovered the importance of making sure the model's aren't moved too fast and making sure that everybody's hand is out of the shot before a photograph is taken!

Thank you to the whole class for their wonderful ideas, creativity and animation skills over the past few weeks! 

Click here to watch the animation!

Parlaunt Park visit Slough Museum

Gifted and Talented art students from Year 3, 4 and 5 at Parlaunt Park visited Slough Museum on Wednesday 25th June for a fun day of art activities inspired by the museum's collection.

The art project we are working on is all about the different cultures and communities who live in Slough. People from all over the world come to Slough to make it their home so we can find out all about different cultural art forms without even having to get on a plane!

We learnt all about Polish Pisanki Easter eggs and learnt about how they are hollowed out and decorated. We even designed our own egg candles using wax pens!

We also talked about the religious festival of Diwali which is celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains. We made our own rangoli sand art and made clay diyas which are used to hold candles for Diwali - which is also known as the festival of lights!

Khalsa Secondary Academy's visit to Stanley Spencer Gallery

On Monday 16th June Year 7 Class 2 visited the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham to start work on their project which will be looking at Identity and Self-Portraits.

Before learning anything about Spencer and his artwork they started their project by making observations about him based on his self-portrait.  They then wrote a list of questions which they would like to find out about him and they explored the gallery to see if they could find out any more information. 

Stanley Spencer - Self-Portrait 1914

Paul Grandidge, Education Officer at the Stanley Spencer gallery, then talked to the group about Stanley and his art work. He told us about how Stanley loved Cookham so much that it became his nickname amongst his art school friends at Slade, he was home schooled by his sisters in his garden shed and how he was a very religious person.

Learning all about Stanley Spencer