Making Maths Arty

This programme ran for half a term, investigating experimental approaches to both maths and drawing.

All KS1 and KS2 children spent one afternoon a week tackling art through maths, making drawings, using paint, collage, printmaking and sculpture.

Year 5 and 6 pupils worked with a professional filmmaker for two days and incorporated the whole school's artwork into a witty and original animation, The Dot and the Line.

This tells the story of Humaira falling asleep in a maths lesson. After a series of adventures, she wakes up and is able to solve maths through drawing.

For one week, the class teachers used visual means to teach all maths lessons.

Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust Awards

The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust aims to increase public appreciation of the arts and music. Their awards recognise educators, artists, teachers and others who use The Big Draw to extend their audience’s perception of drawing and to engage them in innovative activities. They reward organisers whose events relate to their setting, local environment or community, show a clear purpose and good results. Individual drawings may have been used to create a collective artwork, or a public display to celebrate participants’ achievements.