HOLYMEAD ⫸ YR2 - TERMS 1 & 2 ⫸ THURSDAY
✺ HOLYMEAD YR2 ART CLUB ⫸ THURSDAY ✺
Lets Make Art - Art For Schools - Afterschool Art Club
Available to book for children in YR2
When school finishes until 4.30pm
Term 1 = 17th, 24th September, 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd October
Term 2 = 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th November, 3rd and 10th December
12 sessions = £120
We are committed to keeping our sessions more affordable than comparable art enrichment and after-school provision in Bristol, because we believe creative opportunities should be accessible to all families. Our pricing reflects the care, expertise and preparation behind every session - from detailed planning and high-quality resources to our combined years of experience as art educators. We carefully select well-resourced, professional materials and invest in training our facilitators to ensure every child receives a genuinely enriching and inspiring experience. We have held our prices steady for the past three years. However, due to rising material costs, we have made the considered decision to increase our fee slightly to £10 per session. This adjustment allows us to maintain the quality and depth of provision that families value, while continuing to offer excellent value for mone |
Payment is due ASAP to secure your place - please remember to reference your CHILD'S NAME AND SCHOOL
⫸ MONZO - SORT CODE ⫸ 04-00-03 and ACC. NO ⫸ 80129412
About us >>
LET’S MAKE ART is an independent arts organisation run by artists and educators Alice Hendy and Karen Davies. They are Creators in Residence at the Arnolfini, Bristol’s International Centre for Contemporary Arts. Their fun and inventive style has led them to work with many like minded organisations and artists, delivering accomplished projects for diverse audiences. They are passionate about the importance of creative subjects in schools and truly believe that studying and participating in art supports learning in other subjects. Art For Schools started in 2015 to provide multimedia arts programmes for KS1 and 2 pupils. They explore all aspects of making and experiment with diverse materials and techniques, valuing young people as natural artists.
Every year they enter children's artwork created at Art Club into the Young Artists Show at The Royal Academy in London and have had many successful candidates exhibit their creations.
Please visit our Instagram Let's Make Art or Art For Schools to see more of what we get up to.
By using art as an early form of communication, children develop skills that will enhance expression with their writing and show their ideas in a visual sense. Every week we will choose a different art activity and over the term we will explore a variety of materials. Activities include; wearable art, paper mâché, collage, drawing, collaborative painting, watercolour pencils, printmaking, stitching, sculpture, clay work, cyanotypes, graffiti, puppet making and more.
OUR WORK
We Are Family - Free drop in sessions in the Community Workshop Space at the Arnolfini on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during every school holiday
School Linking Project - Linking Network, a charity striving to develop and deepen young people’s knowledge and understanding of identity, diversity, equality and community. To encourage discussion of these issues within the school curriculum and support teachers to address them, as well as providing the opportunity for children and young people to meet, build new relationships, work together and contribute to the wider community.
Family and children’s workshops with; Arnolfini, Royal West of England Academy, Watershed, The Newt, Noodle and Kin, Swindon Culture Collective, Edge Arts Bath, Storysmith Bookshop, Bristol Beacon, Wayne Hemingway Events, New Brewery Arts, Dartington Estate and the Arts Institute Plymouth
Art For Schools - a multimedia visual arts program for Key Stage 1 and 2 children. Exploring all aspects of making, art literature and history and experimenting with diverse materials and techniques.
AQUILA magazine - providing step by step art activities to compliment the themes each edition.
Events and Festivals; we are the main providers of art activities for the following Festival of Making, HooHa! Bristol Beacon, Starry Skies, Port Eliot, Parentfolk, Vintage by the Sea, Playtopia at Shambala, Team Love; Forwards, Weddings at The Mount Without and The Christmas Spiegeltent.
Arts and craft book, "Let's Make Art" for children, published in 2022 - https://bookshop.arnolfini.org.uk/collections/art-books/products/lets-make-art
Holymead Art Club is run by Gem Jenkins. She is part of the school community with both her children attending Holymead.
Gem has a background in photography and videography production which led her to work in London and various locations around the globe. She settled in Bristol six years ago, her husband's hometown.
Gem now focuses on working with children at a forest school, using the power of nature to nurture their mental health and instil a love for the environment and art. She is passionate about education and works with Let’s Make Art at the Arnolfini for their family engagement workshops and several events and festivals.
PLEASE NOTE:
Art Club will only run at full capacity. We will cancel the club and credit/refund in the event the minimum numbers are not met.
Places are limited and bookings are made on a first-come/first-served basis for two terms.
Let's Make Art for Schools facilitators are DBS checked and fully insured.
© Let’s Make Art // Karen Davies and Alice Hendy // 2026 // All Rights Reserved