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Art is an integral part of the curriculum at many schools. The schools seek to foster sound technique while at the same time providing the children the opportunity to use their imaginations so that they can both learn to appreciate art and design and enjoy expressing themselves in the various mediums. Most schools have a specialty art teacher, often one of the more enthusiastic and popular teachers, as most children enjoy art. Most art rooms are filled with impressive collages, drawings, fabric work, paintings, paper mâché, pots and other pottery work, screen and other prints, and other handicrafts produced by the children. Schools vary on their particular approach, but most free, imaginative work is generally encouraged. Here much depends on the individual art teacher. Any visitor can not failed to be delighted by the clay models, drawings, paintings, pots, paper mache masks, and plethora of other masterpieces displayed in virtually every art room. The children all recall enjoyable events in the art room.
Art is an integral part of the curriculum at many schools. The schools seek to foster sound technique while at the same time providing the children the opportunity to use their imaginations so that they can both learn to appreciate art and design and enjoy expressing themselves in the various mediums.
Most schools have a specialty art teacher, often one of the more enthusiastic and popular teachers, as most children enjoy art. The art teacher is often aided by specialists who assist on a part time basis. Experts may be brought in to teach special art forms, such as pottery, dyeing, and weaving.
Most art rooms are filled with impressive collages, drawings, fabric work, paintings, paper mâché, pots and other pottery work, screen and other prints, and other handicrafts produced by the children. Almost all have attractive art rooms which the children especially enjoy. Often the art room is open during free time and the children are encouraged to use the facilities during their leisure time in the afternoon or evening. One boy at Clayesmore remebered the art room as "a good place to get away from people and school and do whatever we want to do."
Schools vary on their particular approach, but most free, imaginative work is generally encouraged. Here much depends on the individual art teacher.
Any visitor can not failed to be delighted by the clay models, drawings, paintings, pots, paper mache masks, and plethora of other masterpieces displayed in virtually every art room. The range is virtually limitless fueled by the energies of enthusiastic arts teachers and unlimited supply of childhood imagination. The work includes drawings of everying from tigers to sneakers, paitings, pots and busts, paper mache, paper butteflys, kites, viking helmets, and much more.
The children all recall enjoyable events in the art room. A Bramcote boy reports, "I found I was having a bit of struggle with my piece of clay , it was going here anf there ; then Mrs . Floyd told me what to do about it and now I have made quite a successful little pot ." Christian, aged 9.
