Course Descriptions & Timetables

DRAWING SKILLS AND MARK MAKING
Spend the week learning how drawing doesn’t have to be boring! Explore how fundamental messy mark making is to drawing and find out how to draw different scenes, animals and portraits!

FIND OUT ABOUT FAMOUR ARTISTS
Learn the difference between Monet and Picasso, Van Gogh and Frida Khalo. Be inspired by their techniques as you create your own works.

PRINTMAKING
Monoprints, lithography and lino cutting! Find out how to make repeating patterns and be inspired by artists such as William Morris to create your own wallpaper and printed textiles!

PORTRAITS
Learn different ways of creating faces! Drawing skills and techniques and surrealist games. Being inspired by traditional and modern portrait artists.

BRINGING YOUR CHILD’S STORY TO LIFE
Ignite your child’s imagination and unleash their storytelling superpowers! Every child has a book inside them – turn their creative worlds into gorgeous, illustrated professionally-bound hardbacks that you’ll treasure forever.
From imagination to publication, transform your young authors’ dreams into reality.

A fun, hands-on baking course creating sweet and savoury treats and bakes run by our school catering team, Culinera.
Participants need to wear clothes they can get messy in, or an apron, and should bring a named, lidded container each day to bring their tasty bakes home in.

DODGEBALL, FOOTBALL, CRICKET, TENNIS
Why play one sport when you can play four?
Each session will concentrate on a different sport.

Develop your basketball skills through a variety of fun activities, drills, teamwork, gameplay and competitions. To suit players of all abilities, you’ll develop your dribbling, shooting, footwork and more.

Climbing is an all-round sport which uses every muscle in the body and many parts of the brain! Our qualified instructor, Mr Lee, uses the climbing wall to teach children great hand, feet and eye coordination. When children can set their own goals and then continually keep pushing themselves out of their comfort zone to achieve them, it creates great self-esteem. The height can be a limiting factor for some children, but working together, building trust and confidence step by step, will help overcome fears. The children must have their legs covered for climbing so tracksuit trousers are best due to the harness worn. Trainers are also required.

This is a great course for children who want to develop their creative talents.  Many resources will be used to produce a wonderful array of craft.

All elements of the game will be taught with including batting, bowling, wicket keeping and fielding drills will help develop basic skills. Small games, net sessions and group work. Please feel free to bring your own cricket gear, but we do have school equipment too.

These sessions can include, den building, minibeast hunts, woodland crafts, wildlife habitats, free play, environmental art, nature identification and so much more. All run by our qualified Forest School practitioner, Mr Lee.

Participants will be put through their paces by our experienced coaches from EMC Academy, practicing a range of drills to develop skills in control, dribbling, passing, shooting, goal-keeping and tactical awareness. Football boots can be worn if your child wishes, but trainers will suffice if there is a little give in the playing surface. Shin pads and a bottle of water are required for this course. Please consider the weather conditions and provide your child with sun block/rain proof jacket.

Our qualified coaches lead this course for both boys and girls, from beginners to intermediate levels. Children learn basic floor skills, incorporating co-ordination skills to enhance body control, balance and rolling moves. Rebounding skills will be taught, enabling children to use the vault.

LEARNING TO 3D PRINT USING TINKERCAD
This is a great intro to understanding 3D printing! Learn the basics of TinkerCAD, the program used to design objects for 3D printing + learn how to create objects that work well as 3D prints. This course is for those new to TinkerCAD designing and also for those wanting to improve the quality of their 3D print ideas. Any more experienced designers wanting to join can have the opportunity to solve some design problems. Everyone will have some 3D printing at the end of the course.

This course is a must for any LEGO loving individual! Over the week children will participate in some LEGO-themed challenges as well as having plenty of free time to build and play with all sorts of bricks and minifigures.
Challenges will include creating unique designs, marble runs, storylines and more. There will also be LEGO books, films and games to enjoy.

This fun off road course develops your child’s bike control skills and confidence through cycle games and activities. Children also learn to use their gears efficiently, share space with other riders and develop signalling skills in preparation for biking off road.
This course is still run by Denise Lomas, she has just renamed the course.

We are thrilled to have Cally-Ann back with us this Easter.
Cally-Ann Callaghan is a West End professional and this course provides the opportunity to experience the joy of performing looking at musicals, playing drama games and creating pieces/scenes. The children will integrate movies and shows from Disney, Current West End and Broadway Musicals.

This highly creative process is a professional industry practice! Create objects out of cardboard using hot glue to quickly see results. There is the opportunity to solve design problems or just to make cool stuff out of cardboard!

Shooting is an activity that requires a steady hand and keen eye. It provides excitement, but also helps children to improve discipline, self-control and a calm attitude. It is a skill and will take time to master; but improvement will be seen over this course and the children will gain a real sense of achievement as their skill levels and hence their scores improve. Rifles used fire .22 live rounds and the range is indoors so this is not a weather-dependent activity. This course involves both theory as well as practical.