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Maryhill Mobile Children Services – Dunard After School Care

From Sept to Dec 2014 Dunard After School Care children took part in the following Art programme under the guidance of Donald McMaster and Sharon Roulston (trained Arts Award advisers at Discover/Explore level).

What they did:

3 sessions of street dancing with local group, out of which a  group of children took part in a performance at Maryhill Mobile Creche 'Celebrate' event in Maryhill Burgh Halls, 7 Sept 2014.

2 discussion sessions discussing 'What is art?' which were filmed.

3 sessions of 'learning' games matching painting styles and painters.  


After 2 sessions the children took part making their own individual paintings (Pointilism and Mackintosh inspired) and after the third session they made a group supre-matist art work inspired by Malevich.

7 sessions towards producing and performing a Christmas song with video.  Children took part in creating, filming, production and performance (singing and dance).  The children learned to work with microphones, headsets, green screen, video camera, audio mixing and video editing software.

The song can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7EdGzVD_tk

The whole process was fun and issue free.  The advice to other advisers is to give it a go!