Power Up Network: Supercharged Sketchbooks

Develop confidence and creative approaches to sketchbook use working with Key Stage 2 pupils.

This session will build your skills and confidence in expanding the impact of sketchbooks for learning with KS2 pupils and provide you with ideas and activities that can be easily adapted for your pupils and curriculum needs. National Curriculum guidance states: “that pupils should be taught: to create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas.”

At PiCL we know sketchbooks, as well as being useful tools for recording learning, they can be so much more! They have the potential to be incredible art objects in their own right. We will be exploring a variety of sketchbook approaches, as well as how to make sketchbooks and zines from scratch. Take your sketchbooks to the next level - supercharged and full to bursting with ideas, notes and joyful creativity.

What People Will Leave With
New techniques:

• notation
• illustration,
• collage and zine making
• diy/lo-fi printing making skills.
• A new confidence and a desire to make your own sketchbooks alongside your pupils.

Alongside this will be a fabulous Christmas shopping opportunity courtesy of our fabulous hosts: Drop City Books!

Session will be led by Iain and Benn from the PiCL team and guest artist Becky Bell:

Benn Price
https://www.instagram.com/iam_bennprice/

Iain Perry
https://www.printgarage.co.uk/

Becky Bell, illustrator and art educator
https://www.instagram.com/soft.pineapples/

Drop City Books
https://www.dropcitybooks.com/

Who It’s For
Primary Art Leads and primary school teachers; Creative practitioners interested in learning new approaches to using sketchbooks are welcome too.

Venue Location:
74-78 Piccadilly, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent ST1 1HX
https://maps.app.goo.gl/TatZ53qX89yQC45E8