National Gardening Week (28 April – 3 May) brought a burst of colour and creativity to The Art Room this week as our young artists transformed paper and clay into miniature worlds that bloomed with detail and imagination!

It’s International Sculpture Day on Sunday (26 April 2026), giving our young artists the perfect moment to continue their own sculptural adventures by exploring the exciting world of 3D art. So, this week in The Art Room, we explored abstract sculpture – where art doesn’t have to represent anything at all – and focused on shape, balance and imagination to make wonderfully colourful paper constructions.

There was a buzz in The Art Room after the Easter break as we welcomed back our amazing bunch of young artists and lots of new faces too! Equally exciting, the start of our summer term fell within World Creativity and Innovation Week and, for our first session, we couldn’t resist joining in the international celebration by encouraging our little Art Room community to harness their creative potential with an art activity that required oodles of innovative thinking!

2026 started with a creative bang and The Art Room has overflowed with energy, smiles and innovation and so many amazing creations over the past few months. So to wrap up an action packed spring term, this week in The Art Room we simply enjoyed getting  creative with an Easter vibe and letting the children’s imaginations lead the way!

We love chatting to our young artists about the art they enjoy making and will often bank the ideas they dream up and share with us in class to develop into future Art Room projects.  This week was such an occasion where our activity, sparked by a request to make portrait pictures, resulted in a wonderful afternoon of creative magic as we brought ourselves to life through paint!

As the evenings get longer and the first signs of spring appear, The Art Room has been blooming with creativity and colour. So, this week we celebrated the season by thinking about how flowers brighten our homes and our hearts. Our classes were filled with vibrant petals and imaginative patterns as our young artists created armfuls of bold paper flowers and a striking display of colourful cardboard vases.

Flaky or shortcrust, savoury or sweet, there’s something wonderfully comforting about tucking into a good pie, particularly when enjoyed with family and friends! So, when British Pie Week came around, we couldn’t resist celebrating it together in The Art Room in our own fun and creative way.

Whether traversing the slopes on holiday or catching some ‘big air’ on TV, many of us enjoyed the thrill of winter sports this half term. So, for our first session back in The Art Room, we wanted to capture a similar energy and dynamism in our artworks by creating winter-athlete drawings and sculptures inspired by this year’s Winter Olympics.

Roses are red, violets are blue

Children create with clay, paper and glue!

Miniature roses moulded from clay

Petal by petal for Valentine’s day

We experienced a special energy in The Art Room last week when the joy of discovery took hold and our young artists followed their instincts to create patterns and images without the fear of mistakes. Aiming for another carefree, creative adventure, this week we guided the children with musical activities devised to provoke a sense of wonder, encourage confidence and champion freedom of expression.  With a nod to National Storytelling Week, we had a ball exploring the theme ‘Soundtrack Your Story’ finding playful ways to let music spark the imagination.

It was International Lego Day on Wednesday 28 January 2026 – a global celebration of the iconic building brick that has inspired generations of children, and adults, to dream big and build bigger. Inspired by the idea of transforming simple bricks into extraordinary ideas, this week in The Art Room we had great fun making art with Lego!

The RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch takes place this weekend, an annual event that sees hundreds of thousands of nature lovers build a picture of how garden birds are faring in our own back yards. So, in The Art Room this week we took inspiration from our feathered friends and set about building our own bird-themed pictures by drawing, not from what we could spot through the window, but from the shapes of art history and the striking paper Cut-Outs of French artist Henri Matisse.

This week in The Art Room we continued our drawing discoveries by zooming in on detail.  Building on last week’s activities and our understanding of shape and form, our focus was on texture and how to represent different materials and surface detail in our drawings, by simply using a pencil.

We kept things simple in The Art Room this week and for our first session of 2026 we eased ourselves into an exciting new year of creativity by practising our drawing skills.  Going back to basics, we explored how mark-making in its simplest form can be arranged to form patterns and shapes. Providing us with a foundation for building an image, the combination of line and shape opens up endless creative possibilities for capturing the many things we see, experience and dream up in the world around us.

It started to feel a bit festive in The Art Room this week as our imaginations roamed free among sparkling skies, snowy vistas and the inky shadows of a winter wonderland.

Thursday 27^th November marked the beginning of National Tree Week. This annual event, now in its fiftieth year, raises awareness about the vital role trees play in our environment and provided acres of inspiration for the Woodland theme we’ve enjoyed exploring over the past couple of weeks in The Art Room.

It was Odd Sock Day on Monday 10 November, an event that takes place during Anti-Bullying week to promote individuality and kindness.  So, this week in The Art Room, we asked everyone to design their own pair of mismatched socks to reflect their unique personality, interests and imagination.

The Art Room was back with a bang this week with a dazzling display of firework art to welcome in the new half term!

We moved from sunny yellow to vibrant multicolour this week in The Art Room to highlight innovation and resourcefulness in support of Recycle week. 

Friday 11 October 2025 is World Mental Health Day. Taking inspiration from UK charity Young Minds, we asked everyone to say “Hello Yellow” in The Art Room this week to celebrate the joy and positivity that can be experienced through making art and in coming together to share in mindful creativity.