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Essex Outdoors:

Courses:

+ Schools & Youth Groups

+ Duke of Edinburgh

+ Technical Courses

- Environmental Education

+ Corporate & Leisure

Centres:

+ Daws Hall and Pelham

+ Harlow Climbing Wall

Art in the Environment

This course will provide outdoor practical experiences to explore some of the natural materials and stimulus that the nature reserve can offer.

Course Content:

Explore and develop ideas
Investigate and make art, craft and design from natural materials.
Evaluate and develop work
Understand the visual and tactile elements of materials
Work in two and three dimensions.
Work on large scale creations
Work alone and in groups.

Activities :

Collecting materials to create collage/craftwork.
Using large pieces of wood, bark and leaves to form a large scale model or picture.
Sketching from close observation of plants or invertebrates from the meadow.
Discussing emotions and feelings of different sites on the reserve.
Creating imaginative mud sculptures.
Looking at the landscape as represented by Gainsborough and Constable.

Links NC:

Science
Geography
History
Literacy
PSHE
RE

Duration:

This can be a full or half day unit and can take place throughout the year. It combines well with other half day courses.

Offered by:

Daws Hall and Pelham

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Aiming High - Click here for further information

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Calendar of Events:

Aug 2010

Essex County Council