Illustration For Learning Brief

A few months back there was an opportunity to provide some teachers with arts workshops that could assist their pupils in class with literacy skills but it unfortunately fell through due to lack of numbers. But thankfully the opportunity has come about again! So myself, Tyler, Alice and Sophie have signed up for this opportunity.

We met with Gareth, who I know from working for the progression team, to discuss some ideas. It was a little difficult to get our creative brains in gear from the heavy mass of COP, but we came up with a few pretty good ideas.

• Making letters from pictures to help strengthen relationship between images and words
• Make a self-portrait collage, perhaps as a warm up activity
• Verb and noun bingo: pick one verb and one noun at random and then create a drawing to summarise it
• Make maps to do with identity?
• Make flash cards with words and pictures

We have a fair bit of time until the actual event which is on January 25th, so we are going to brainstorm some more ideas over Christmas and meet up in the new year to finalise things.