Coming up... My I Like & Shakespeare Primary School

We've been trying to get in touch with primary schools on and off since before the Easter Holidays to see if we would be able to hold a workshop with a group of school children. We would bring in paint, plasticine and crayons/felts and ask them to draw out their likes and dislikes for us. We want to work with:

1. Age group 5 - 7 year olds
2. Both male and female
3. Don't nessasarily have to be interested in art (but usually at that age most children enjoy painting/drawing etc.)

We appeared to be getting the furthest with Shakespeare Primary School (Leeds), we managed to get in touch with the secretary on a number of occasions (unfortunatly the head teacher was always out or in meetings) until finally , two weeks ago we managed to speak to the head who thought it was a great idea and that it would be fun and interesting for the children (who wouldn't want a break from work to play with paint and plasticine?!)

So after speaking to the head teacher we had to wait for him to talk to the Key Stage 1 & 2 teachers who would then get in touch with us.

This afternoon we had a phone call from one of the KS1/KS2 teachers called Lyndsey. She was really interested in our project and she's asked us to come in and run a workshop on Wednesday 23rd April, arriving to set up at 12.30pm and starting the class at 1pm. We'll be working with two groups of approx 15 pupils aged 5-6 years with 2 classroom assistants.

We're not sure if we're going to bring in the plasticine (it might just end up a big smushy mess, which we don't mind but the cleaners might!), we think we might pick up some felt pens and crayons and printout some more paint-sheets to let them paint/draw on.

We've also been thinking that it would be a good idea to see if we can set up a tag-board display in the staff room as it would be another interesting gathering point of likes/dislikes (similar to the postal packs).

Scary, scary stuff but it should be good fun and interesting to see what the kids come up with - usually they have the most inspiring insights!