Wild in Education

“Successful schools are creative schools”.
Chairman of the House of Commons Education Committee Barry Sheerman MP.

And, on the education pack, “I think it is very well researched and organised and gives teachers plenty of scope at KS3 to adapt it to suit individual class needs as well as time constraints. I think it is also great to see such an environmental focus, as it is, I believe, such projects at KS3 that can help students to discover and develop opinions about important environmental issues.” Stewart Life, Hellesdon High

Entertaining, Educating and Enterprising

Wild in Art brings to life the natural world in a rainbow of colour and invention that animates both the classroom and the local community and creates beautiful art.

Working with education consultants, Wild in Art has created a range of animal sculptures together with education packs for Key Stages 1, 2 & 3 which introduce concepts to children and engage them on a range of practical and creative levels.

Currently, Wild in Art has Emperor Penguins, Bottlenose Dolphins, Hippopotami and Elephants calves in its range of endangered animals. Each animal is available in a number of sizes and comes complete with the Education Pack.

The Education Pack offers many ideas about how to create your animal sculpture and cross curricula activity ranging from conservation, global citizenship, literature and poetry through to the definition of “endangered” and the challenges and issues that these animals face.

Each subject area is designed to enable children and young people to explore issues and learn through the creative process.

Here is some of the feedback of schools that took part in Wild In Art projects throughout the summer of 2007.

“Unfortunately you gave us a really 'cheeky and naughty' elephant - every night the kids in the reception class build a compound for him (Peanut) but he always manages to escape and so they have to send out a search party of strong children to carry him back - as a result it's become a massive hit throughout the school and has really managed to build bridges between Key Stages 1 and 2. One of the projects they're now working on is designing and building a trolley that can be used to bring him back home each day."Swanton Morley School

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Here is one of the lifesize elephants used by children with special needs at St Philips School.

“We are always racking our brains to come up with rich new experiences for our pupils. Painting an elephant is such fun and so very different from painting on flat pieces of paper. Themed projects such as the elephant project, which included learning about elephant conversation and welfare, supports the national emphasis on personalised learning. Even the naming of the elephant involved the whole school. Mrs Trunker now resides colourfully in the school grounds. A few years time, we may paint over her thus providing another cohort of pupils with the experience. We would also like to enhance a staff inset day on creativity by designing and painting one of Wild in Art’s other animals.”
Helen Goodall
Head Teacher
St Philip’s School

“The creative process of designing and then painting the elephant become a whole school activity. Irrespective of the age of the child, each one took ownership of the project and it becoming a very unifying project”.
Helen M,
Head of Art,
St Philip’s School