Provider Info
Real Arts – Winter HAF Specialist Art and BSL Activities
We will provide a wide variety of creative activities such as watercolour painting, clay, making fruit animals (and eating them!), designing tote bags, graffiti style lettering and acrylic pen drawings.
All materials, tuition and a cooked meal are included. Children can bring their own food if they prefer.
We encourage young people to use their imaginations, and we are a very supportive team. Some basic sign language tuition is included; no previous experience is needed.
The location is Wednesbury Library, Walsall Street, Wednesbury WS10 9EH. If you are traveling by car, there limited time on road parking directly outside the library in Hollies Drive, or a pay and display car park opposite the library in Spring Head.
Public Transport: the library is well served by bus numbers: 11, 30, 40, 47 and 65.
Please note, the library will be closed to the public on the first 2 days of our scheme (29th and 30th Dec). Attendees will still be able to access our scheme on those days we will send details. The library is open as normal on 31st December.
Clothing:
Children can wear comfortable casual clothes – but not their best please as we are using art materials that could possibly stain them.
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About Us
We have been providing HAF activities for many years. Our activities are immersive and innovative and go way beyond simply ‘colouring in’. We encourage people to participate in all sorts of high-quality specialised creative arts activities and integrate specialist British Sign Language learning into our sessions. We believe that art is good for you – whoever you are, and our sessions help young people build their confidence, learn new skills, make new friends, have fun and express themselves.
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What benefits can we expect from this?
- Elimination of boredom
- Improved mental health
- Developing skills
- Routes to success for SEND
- Educational attainment across the curriculum
- Levels the playing field for disadvantaged students
- Improve quality of life
- Having Fun
- Making Friends and connections
- Improved sense of achievement and self-efficacy
- Social interaction
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What makes your activity unique?
We challenge and engage our learners and encourage them to create pieces of art that expresses how they feel, reflects their own interests and cultures and we listen to what they tell us when designing these sorts of programmes. There is scope for physical activities during these activities and at break times.
“I loved everything and I love coming here.”
- Children are encouraged to wear comfortable casual clothes, please be aware we work with arts material that could potentially stain clothing.
- No previous art or BSL skills needed. Have fun, make new friends and try something different.
- High quality learning materials and tuition and a hot meal included.
- Deaf children can access these sessions. Other SENDs welcome please get in touch to discuss.
- HAF eligible children only – parents / guardians will have received a code. Ages 7-16 (19 with EHCP)