Drawing Club
Drawing Club is an approach designed by Greg Bottrill that immerses children into a world full of imagination.
It is through drawing club that we open up the magic world of tales and story to children whilst at the same time enriching their language skills and developing their fine motor. Drawing Club shows children that the pencil is like a wand and can make all kinds of things happen to what we draw together.
Using a variety of picture books, traditional tales and old TV cartoons, we’ll be taking your child on an adventure into imagined worlds where we can choose what happens and how. Children learn new, exciting vocabulary that we revisit each day of the week. We draw characters on a Monday, settings on a Tuesday and we ‘wonder’ on a Thursday and Friday.
We add maths to our drawings by talking about shapes and numbers. We might be drawing a troll with a spherical shaped head, 2 strong, wiry hairs on his chin and double this amount coming out of each ear. He has one more than 4 buttons on his filthy, ripped shirt. Children observe as the teacher models drawing club each morning and then get the opportunity to complete their own drawings. They are invited to come to Drawing Club and can borrow ideas from the teacher or create their own amazing ideas to share.
One of the most exciting parts of Drawing Club is adding secret symbols and passwords to our drawings. Sometimes we draw a secret symbol and add a password that can make anything happen! This can be a mark, letter, digraph (2 letters that make one sound), a word or a sentence. As children make progress and become more confident with their phonics, their passwords develop and become phrases and sentences.