Review and Pictures

During this year’s Schools Open Studios Project, participating secondary school pupils worked on specially designed worksheets to chart the steps of demonstrations and activities or to write answers to questions about designer-makers wares, inspiration and marketing.

Pupils from St. Paul's Way School with milliner Chloe Scrivener in her studio

Sharon Mitchell, a textiles teacher from St. Paul’s Way School provided encouraging feedback from here pupils, saying how they “really enjoyed” visiting studios and getting ideas for their textiles shoe project back at school.

Pupils from St. Paul's Way School working on 'Hidden Treasure' designed worksheets, noting down demonstration steps

Pupils from Skinners’ Company’s School for Girls wrote the following quote in their newsletter in response to the schools visits:

“This inspired us as young artists to explore the industry further”

This project attracted mainly older secondary school pupils in key stage 4 Design and Technology groups, with some participating pupils from the ‘Gifted and Talented’ groups in their school; therefore well on their way to a career in the creative industries.