Preparing your school for Filbert's visit

Filbert workshops are very flexible and can be adapted to almost any format you might like to organise. Assuming it will be a one day event, here are a few scenario's you might like to consider when making your plans.

Please note: Filbert will demonstrate in a fun and engaging way at appropriate points in the day:

Small School (approx 100 Pupils)

The interactive event replaces assembly and lasts for approximately 40 minutes for all children in the school. The drawing workshop takes place in the hall with all children (probably not reception) and lasts for approximately one and half to two hours. After lunch children produce their paintings in their own classrooms with Filbert demonstrating in each classroom in rotation.
The interactive event replaces assembly for all children. The drawing workshop is attended by a single year group or class. The same group or class work, after lunch, on their paintings.

Requirements

Children will require sketchbooks or at least 2 sheets of A3 paper for the drawing workshop.
For painting children will need a paper plate each for colour mixing and one between two for paint
Colours required are blue, red, yellow, dark brown and white. All colours can be mixed from these.

Medium School (approx 250 pupils)

The interactive event replaces assembly and lasts for approximately 40 minutes for all children in the school. A selection of children, KS, a year group, a class attend the drawing workshop in the hall. In the afternoon painting workshops take place in classrooms. If sessions could start approximately 5 minutes after each other, this will allow Filbert to start each session. This would allow up to 4 classes to be accommodated in the afternoon.

The art day is restricted to a year group, or class. The children miss assembly and attend the interactive event in another space, or classroom. The drawing and painting workshops take place in the same spaces as the interactive event.

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Children will require sketchbooks or at least 2 sheets of A3 paper for the drawing workshop.
For painting children will need a paper plate each for colour mixing and one between two for paint.
Colours required are blue, red, yellow, dark brown and white. All colours can be mixed from these.

Large School (approx 500 pupils)

here is no reason why all children cannot attend the interactive event assuming your assembly space can cope with the numbers. The workshops cannot be delivered to the whole school, so you will have to decide the children who will attend them. 3 classes, approximately one hundred children, can easily be coped with. It is possible to take more if a rotation system as outlined above is adopted, or you have a space large enough to set aside for the whole day.

Start the day with a painting session for a group of children (the group size could be up to 100). This would be an ideal for an Impressionist painting day, Filbert can conduct the day as Monet. Assuming this is summer time, we move outside for the drawing workshop. After lunch we go outside again and paint from life, just as Monet would have done.

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Children will require sketchbooks or at least 2 sheets of A3 paper for the drawing workshop.

For painting children will need a paper plate each for colour mixing and one between two for paint.

Colours required are blue, red, yellow, dark brown and white. All colours can be mixed from these.

Finally

Please be aware Filbert has had a vast amount of experience working with schools of all sizes, some with fantastic facilities others much more limited. He can adapt to whatever you throw at him and produce for your children, an unforgettable art experience.

Filbert Demonstrates painting