Term Time Classes

Our term time classes are booked and paid for on a half-termly basis. Sessions last for an hour and fifteen minutes and are led by experienced arts educators, with support from assistants with creative backgrounds. Class sizes are limited to ensure plenty of individual support and guidance.

Primary classes are £12 per session which includes all materials, sketchbooks and refreshments. We follow the AccessArt Primary Curriculum, which is devised by experienced arts educators (details of the current pathways below).

Key Stage 3/4 courses are £13 per session- Emerald and Indigo Class are designed to complement the Key Stage 3 and 4 art curriculum, whereas Cerise Class is an alternative class for secondary students who don’t necessarily want to follow such a structured session and would rather work more independently on their own projects with input and support from the class leader.

Explore and Bronze Arts Award courses are £14 per session, which covers the cost of arts logs, specialised tuition and assessment. Silver Arts Award courses are £15 per session, and Gold Arts Award courses are £17 per session, as these require a greater degree of support and assessment. Courses are run by qualified Arts Award Advisers. There is an additional fee for moderation and certification, which will be added to the final term’s invoice.

Home Learning classes are £12 per session and are mixed age groups- we plan sessions inspired by the students’ interests and by the pathways followed by the after school classes.

Baby and Toddler classes are £6 per session– this group is run by Bethan (who also runs our lovely Sunday Crafternoon sessons!) The class is open to any babies, toddlers and preschool children and their grown ups, and is an opportunity for parents and carers to meet other families while the young artists take part in craft and play activities.

Sunday Crafternoons are £9 per session and are open to all Primary age groups- these sessions are run by Bethan from Little Joys UK and focus on craft, using largely recycled and repurposed materials. Please scroll to the bottom of the page to see the current craft schedule. Pl Please scroll t

We offer free trial sessions for our after school classes- prospective students are welcome to come along for a visit to see if they would like to join us! For more information or to book, please get in touch using our contact page, or by emailing hello@artivitystudios.co.uk.

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Term 5 Pathways

Week commencing 20th April- week commencing 18th May (5 weeks)

Our Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 classes will be on the ‘Stick Transformation Project‘ pathway. In this pathway children are enabled to use their imagination and transform a familiar object (a stick) into new forms. The pathway begins with a simple sculptural warm-up which encourages children to think creatively and laterally about how they can use materials to create a small sculpture. Depending upon project choice, children then go on to make stick people inspired by Guatemalan Worry Dolls, make a treehouse, or make a mask. Sketchbooks are used throughout to help children brainstorm, record and reflect.

Our Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 classes will be on the will be on the ‘Explore & Draw’ pathway- In this pathway children are introduced to the idea that artists can be collectors: they go out into the world, look at things in new ways, and bring things back to the studio to inspire their art.

Our Year 3 and 4 classes will be on the ‘Sculpture, Structure, Inventiveness and Determination’ pathway. In this pathway children explore formal drawing and sculpture skills like line, mark making, shape, form, balance and structure, but they also just as importantly explore how it feels to make art. They explore how they can appreciate a sense of challenge, and a feeling of trying things out without fear of failure or “wrong or right”. Pupils start by seeing how artists sometimes help us learn about ourselves by drawing parallels with other lives. Pupils apply this knowledge by looking at how birds build nests – what can we learn from them about the traits we might show when we make experimental drawings and build sculpture.

Our Year 5 and 6 classes will be on the ‘Take a Seat’ pathway. In this pathway children are introduced to the work of a craftsperson/designer, and they explore how the artist brings his personality to his work. They go on to explore chair design over the centuries to understand how furniture can reflect or define the age in which it was made. Children then use a warm up making exercise to remind themselves that they can be inventive in their making, and that the things they make can communicate ideas to other people. Finally children go on to make their own chair (a model of) using the Design Through making technique.

Our Monday Emerald and Indigo Classes will be moving back to two dimensional work this term, having spent the spring term working in 3D! Now that we have lighter evenings, we’ll be spending some time outside drawing from nature using graphite, ink and wash. We’ll then be bringing our sketches into the studio to develop into an imaginative landscape in oils and acrylic, based on the preliminary sketches done en plein air.

Our Cerise class students will continue to work on their self-initiated projects, supported by Vikki and Bethan.

We keep our class information as up to date as we can- if you’re interested in joining us, please get in touch via the contact page and we can confirm space availability.

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MONDAY CLASSES

2:15-3:30pm Teal Class Home Learning- Mixed Ages Not currently running- please enquire if you are interested in this group

3:45-5:00pm Sapphire Class Year 3/Year 4 Not currently running- please enquire if you are interested in this group

5:15-6:30pm Emerald Class Year 7/Year 8 Spaces Available

6:45-8:00pm Indigo Class Year 9/Year 10/Year 11 Spaces Available

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TUESDAY CLASSES

1:30-2:30pm Baby and Toddler Class 0-4 years Spaces Available

3:45-5:00pm Maroon Class Reception/Year 1/Year 2 Spaces Available

5:15-6:30pm Amber Class Year 5/Year 6 Spaces Available

6:45-8:00pm Cerise Class Key Stage 3/4 Alternative Class Spaces Available

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WEDNESDAY CLASSES

3:45-5:00pm Turquoise Class Year 3/Year 4 Spaces Available

5:15-6:30pm Magenta Class Year 3/Year 4 Spaces Available

6:45-8:00pm Jade Class Year 5/Year 6 Spaces Available

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THURSDAY CLASSES

3:45-5:00pm Violet Class Year 5/Year 6 Spaces Available

5:15-6:30pm Bronze Arts Award Year 6+ Full

6:45-8:00pm/8:30pm Silver/Gold Arts Award Year 9+ Full

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SUNDAY CLASSES

1:30-2:45pm Sunday Crafternoon Mixed Primary Ages, hosted by Bethan from Little Joys Spaces Available

Sunday 26th April- Recycled Wind Chimes

We’ll be unleashing our creativity with Bethan’s stash of clean recycling! We always love to see what our Sunday crafters come up with- it’s amazing what they can do with some bits and pieces and a glue gun 🙂