Art, Design and Technology Workshops

Classes from our partner schools in our borough enjoy design and technology workshops in our fully equipped studio covering topics such as food technology, graphic design, textiles and resistant materials. Our specialist teachers in art, design and technology deliver bespoke workshops in consultation with the class teachers and senior leadership team to enable children to learn new skills, design and evaluate their own projects, all with access to specialist tools and equipment.

Aims

The Explore programme is our big tent of activities, programmes and partnerships with local schools. Bute House Explore reaches out to all primary schools in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and beyond with programmes and activities to enrich learning across the curriculum and beyond. We give a space to children for their personal growth and learning through creative experiences and enhanced learning.

All the Bute House staff team are involved in delivering Explore. Staff members give up time to
commit their expertise and talent to creating the best experiences for the children who participate.

The art and design workshops allow our local children to experience specialist teaching, resources and equipment in a dedicated environment with dedicated support to class teachers to embed the learning back at their own school. This provides opportunities and experiences not normally available to the children.

Background

As part of our established and developed Explore programme, we are constantly seeking new ways to engage with our local schools, using resources and expertise we can uniquely provide. Based on feedback, discussions and requests with the Senior Leadership Teams of our local schools, our specialist art, design and technology teachers developed a teaching programme and complementary resources that would be of benefit to the children and schools involved. We have been running the workshop series ad hoc for many years. 

Resources

The workshop series makes use of all our specialist facilities in our studio. As part of a Building Project the art, design and technology studio was rebuilt and local schools will be able to enjoy state-of-the-art facilities.

Specialist teachers give their time and expertise to design, deliver and review the workshop series working closely with the local state school partners.