Summary

Art fun for all the family, you do not need any experience we will teach you drawing, illustration, animation and a variety of creative skills. Families come in all shapes and sizes, and we welcome you all: grandparents, uncles, aunties, sisters, brothers, cousins even the pets can join in (we can draw them). We want to create work that captures the joys and challenges of family life all rolled into a final piece of work to share. This might be animations, a creative calendar or an illustrated story. Come and join in and get making.

How will I know how I am doing?

Your tutor will give you regular family group feedback this may be a webinars (visual online tutorials) or written chats through the Teams software which is accessible through the college website.

How will I learn?

This course is delivered within an online virtual classroom. Our virtual learning courses brings the classroom to you. Course are online, allowing you to study from anywhere however classes run live at scheduled times and dates. Giving you the full live classroom experience with other learners and our expert lecturers, all from the comfort of your own home.

Entry Requirements

You and your family members will need access to one computer to allow online communication. We will use materials that we may already have in the home: paper, pencils, glue, paints, available arts materials, plasticine, recycled materials, etc. We may use cameras for simple animation and we will adapt processes to allow all to feel included.

For more information on entry requirements please email [email protected].

What can I do next?

Full or further part-time time courses, non or accredited which may specialise in a particular arts medium e.g photography, printmaking, creative writing, illustration etc. Perhaps Access to Learning could be a platform for further development and qualifications.For more information please email [email protected]

Our qualified careers advisers can help our part-time learners understand your life and work choices, identify your values and work styles and offer valuable tools which enable you to transfer this effectively to the workplace. Whether it be job change, promotion or re-entering the employment market after a time away, we offer 1:1 confidential, impartial and unbiased guidance, CV Writing, apprenticeship advice, self-reflection (understanding your strengths) and advice on the various routes into all sorts of jobs.

SGS's Careers service is accredited by the Matrix quality standard and you can contact them by emailing [email protected]  or [email protected] to book a free appointment.

Additional Information

IMPORTANT INFORMATION DUE TO THE IMPACT OF COVID-19
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic we may need to take a number of measures that could affect our planned delivery method. For example; planned on site delivery may take a blended approach; a mixture of classroom based and online activities. We will endeavour to ensure course information, including delivery method and pricing, is updated when changes are having to be made. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us before completing an enrolment form.

For information on how this may impact art courses please email [email protected]

DISTANCE LEARNING PLATFORM
The choosen platform for this course is Microsoft Teams. Teams allows learners and teachers to seamlessly work together, create content and share resources from a single, easy-to-learn and simple platform. On successful enrolment onto this course you will be provided with all the details required to set up Teams.

COURSE FEES
Please be aware this course does not have a fee that is payable on enrolment.

For more information on fees please view our Fees, Charges and Refunds Policy and our Applications, Admissions and Enrolment Policy and Procedures.

ONLINE ENROLMENT
This course offers simpler and safer online enrolment requests, which means in a matter of minutes you can submit an enrolment request to us. However please be aware that upon submitting your enrolment form you are not guaranteed to be accepted. A number of our courses require assessments, qualification checks or simply a conversation with you before we can confirm your enrolment.

Within 24 hours of enrolment submission you will receive an automated email notification with information on what happens next.