To go on the Curious Quests with your children you must have a full understanding of Drawing Club. If you don't know how to use it then you need to do an online session on that first. The Curious Quests session and resources will not make sense without the context of Drawing Club and the online session will assume that you are familiar with its 4 Mini Moments.

Don’t worry if you miss a week, as you haven’t missed a vital part of the course. Art Club lets you explore and develop at your own pace. Art Club Content Scribble Club is aimed at 2,3 and 4 year olds and is an exploration of scribbling, a way of delighting in its process. In some ways it is a forerunner to the Drawing Club concept although it is entirely based within the hum and buzz of co-play. Scribble Club explores how to add an extra layer of joy to the day through scribbling's powerful link to invention, magic and story. This cool drawing app is for everyone with all drawing skills. You will learn how to draw effortlessly by following the drawing process. Our Art Club is aimed at those who have a done a little drawing already and want to refresh their technique. The studio is well equipped and experienced art tutors will be on hand to help with ideas and guidance on materials. Bring your objects to draw or choose items from our props cupboard to make your own still life set ups. There will be opportunities for life and portrait drawing. Never got bored again: we add new drawings "every day" so you will ALWAYS find something new to enjoy.Each Saturday morning session will be led by a different artist, and you’re welcome to drop into as many or as few as you’d like. All you'll need is a pencil, paper and rubber, with each session exploring different techniques and styles. Thank you Karen! I never though I could do faces. You broke it down so it was understandable! And I love your book! I got it yesterday! Can't wait to start practicing! It's so much fun!!!!! The message centre enables our children to explore the joy of messaging, an approach to sprinkling extra joy over the top of their day, showing them how reading, writing and mathematics can be hidden in and around their room and outdoors too. Our children love hiding and finding – think pass the parcel, birthday presents, egg hunts and hide and seek. There is a buzz to be had, and it is this buzz that the Message Centre approach has at its heart.

The Next Steps Planning tool for Reading, Writing and Mathematics as well as for holistic skills so that when you are co-playing as well as Not-Playing, you are working at the cusp of confidence and beyond. This can have a significant impact on progress, as not a moment is wasted with children when you are with them. You confidently co-play because you know the children as learners as well as people. Ideally, you will be using Drawing Club already in Year 1 since this is a bridge from Reception for the children. Both are highly impactful and creative ways to bring learning to life based on the view that children are capable, creative and need agency in their education so that they are authentic learners and we can be authentic educators. Or explore more meaningful origami and share the story of Sadako and her wish to make a thousand origami cranes after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. There is now a statue in Japan called the Children’s Peace Monument, inspired by her efforts. Challenge the children to learn how to make cranes, and display them as a symbolic sculpture in school.Drawing comes naturally to young children, and is fundamental to their learning, growth, and understanding of the world around them. The Drawing Clubs help children retain and develop these drawing abilities and sustain their enthusiasm for self-expression within an artist-led environment. The app's design is very simple and lightweight and will work flawlessly on all mobile devices including old devices. The Magic Mirror from 'School and the Magic of Children' - a telling way to see whether you have added to or eroded childhood. It can be a fantastic way to show that childhood is being honoured and valued across your day.

By joining Greg online, you will also be joining other interested educators, giving Story Dough! momentum and energy, plus you'll get the free walkthrough with Greg to inspire you to get started and bring your own energy to the concept! We now offer a free full-scholarship course for young people aged 10 - 14 who have a passion for drawing and a desire to improve their skills. They are open to anyone to apply through our application forms. During this informal chat, we learn more about Greg as a person, his passion and advocacy for children shining through and he provides his thoughts on how children can be supported by play and child-led activities, how we can start the conversations with children to learn about any anxieties they may have and help them by listening. Drawing Club can be truly transformative both within your Reception practice and as a bridge into KS1 - its magic is extraordinary because Drawing Club is an adventure into the world of story itself. This programme is designed to complement a students studies over a whole academic year. These weekly classes will be taught by professional practicing artists, who will guide students through a range of observational drawing exercises. Students will learn skills that allow you to explore your creativity outside the curriculum while building a portfolio of high-quality work that supports your progress in Arts Education.

If you are looking to show children the magic world of story, if you want to discover a way of sharing skills including fine motor, maths, early writing and vocabulary and if you believe that young children deserve a book-snuggle within their day, then Drawing Club is for you! Sunday Life Drawing will continue to run most weeks at Wasps Artist studios in Dalry until December. Look and Draw will be relocating to The Heart of Newhaven Communitty in the new year and will be restarting classes in the new studio. By coming to the Zoom, you will be joining other interested educators, giving The Message Centre momentum and energy, plus you'll get the FREE walkthrough with Greg to inspire you to get started and bring your own energy to the concept! By coming to the Zoom, you will be joining other interested educators, giving Play Projects momentum and energy, plus you'll get the FREE walkthrough with Greg to inspire you to get started and bring your own energy to the concept! The Curious Quests wants to build on the liberation of Drawing Club that shows children that writing is for them and that the pen is a magic wand. They write for their own joy, not to meet the demands of the adults.

Do you love books and stories? Do you want to open up the magic world of tales and story to children whilst at the same time enriching their language skills, developing their fine motor and sharing really special time with them? Are you looking for an approach to Literacy that doesn’t involve laboriously learning stories for weeks on end, but instead immerses children into a world full of imagination where anything can happen and often does? A FREE Discord link to the online Scribble Club community enabling you to explore the joy of scribbling even further

The Body Improvement Club from Mob Psycho with model, Calix Quan!

The Doughnut Planning tool - a really simple way to get dialogue started about children and usable in multiple ways to think about the minutiae of skills as well as the bigger picture stuff like imagination, social skills, independence - you name it, Doughnut Planning can help you hugely. Drawing is a practice both universal and ancient. These workshops – using the most basic of materials, pencil and paper – reconnect us with the present moment. You'll learn to relate your mark-making to both your surroundings and your imagination, rendering your thoughts, feelings and ideas on paper.