Standard Workshops

We offer a standard package with the following workshops, and will send you the details of any in which you are interested: → Glass engraving → Ceramic tile painting → Pot making → Percussion → Poetry → Printing

→ Drama → Dancing → Health and Fitness → Healthy cooking on a budget → PE and Sports. These established and extremely popular workshops are offered to all of our schools, for at least one day per year, for groups of up to 30 children.

Bespoke workshops

The Spark Factory will also design a bespoke workshop if you have something special in mind, such as a school celebration or anniversary. When you speak to your personal Spark Factory adviser, they will offer you examples of workshops that have been “sparked”, inspired and designed by children’s amazing and original ideas.

Costings

We are aware that funding is a challenge for schools in 2015, but we are confident that over the next 12 months you will find the ideal workshop that is both affordable and excellent value.

Our Mission and Aims

The Spark Factory aspires to be the best organisation in the UK for providing excellent traditional and contemporary workshops. Our aims are: 1. To make the workshops easily available for teachers in a way that will enable you to choose and arrange an exciting, innovative experience that complements your teaching and dovetails with your chosen topics within the national curriculum. 2. To offer specialist artists to local schools, keeping the provenance of local artistry and industries alive.

Our workshops are tried and tested, and are constantly updated to fit in with both the national curriculum and Ofsted's requirements. Designed to foster creativity in children, the artist-coaches who run our workshops are all skilled at providing a well-rounded, grounding experience within the time frame of the session. The results of their coaching will continue to enrich the lives of your pupils long after we have gone.