Street Art

To promote leadership skills for Year 12 Art A level students, by designing and completing a wall mural at a local community primary school.

Aims

To promote leadership skills for Year 12 students. To provide opportunities for Year 12 to work in their community supporting younger learners. To provide enrichment learning for contemporary art making techniques.

An identified need to support students whilst they worked towards their Sixth Form diploma was focused upon as well as stretching Year 12 Art students to work on a large scale within the Art workshop using new materials and techniques.

A critical factor was successfully completing a wall mural onsite in the grounds of Maple Primary School and this proved advantageous for future school marketing purposes also. All Year 12 students involved being fully aware of how to safely use spray painting and stencilling techniques for StreetArt methods was a factor also.

All Year 12 students involved were in receipt of the workshop experience and added value to the their Sixth Form diploma activities list.

Background

Long standing partnership with Maple Primary School for various Art workshops with various year groups involved. The partnership began as a school strategy. Maple Primary School has fired clay work from their KS2 groups in the Art dept. kiln every year since 2008. R. Marsh identified the opportunity with H.Monighan as benefiting Year 12 by adding to their the Sixth Form diploma.

Resources

Resources used came from the Art Department using existing card materials and stencils were cut on the D&T laser cutter. R.Marsh - teaching staff was involved solely. 2-3 free teaching blocks were used for planning & emailing Maple Primary School staff teacher, Mrs Lindsey Noble.

Impact

Resulting assessment for this one half-day event concluded in the creation of a collective group work art piece - the quality being assessed within Art A Level coursework in 2025. 12 Year 12 students from the Sixth Form cohort now have evidence in their Sixth Form diplomas.

Pupil Involvement

12 x Year 12 and Maple Primary School Year 6 pupils.

Frequency

On-going for two years and now fully completed.