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Number 1, 2003
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CONTENTS
Children’s Art Day
Page 3
Ideas for Early Years
Page 8
From the editor
Hello and welcome to START – the magazine intended to help you at work.
We hope you like our first edition. We’ve tried to include a range of topics and ideas
for use in the classroom from early years upwards but we look forward to hearing
from you with your news, views and ideas for future issues of the magazine.
We all know it’s the case but it was said again at the Headmasters’ Conference
earlier this month: ‘Art matters and we need to do more about it’. We hope START
has a role to play in the future development of really creative art, craft and design
education. Let us know what you think.
Amanda Burnside
From the President of NSEAD
Welcome to START! I hope you will enjoy the first edition of this new resource
specifically designed with you in mind.
I am delighted that we are able to publish this magazine with the support of the
Arts Council of England. In a time of rapid change, when many of the traditional forms
of support have been removed or severely cut back I am confident that START will
quickly become an essential resource to help you in your classroom. It fills a gap in
the support that we know, through discussion with our members, is needed for
teachers of primary and preschool art, craft and design.
The National Society for Education in Art and Design has a particular commitment
to establish and maintain quality support for you in your work with your children.
With best wishes for successful art and design lessons.
Alastair Laing
President NSEAD
Cover image: Nineteenth century Punu mask from Gabon, West Africa
Courtesy of M. Eglington collection. Ideas for Early Years, page 8.
Simply to Dye For
Page 4
Drawing Power
Page 18
Page 2
START news
Children’s Art Day
Page 4
Simply to Dye For
The beautiful Adire Cloth print and
how it can be used in the classroom
Page 6
Taking it to the Limits
Derek Stears reviews creative material
at Key Stage 2
Page 8
Ideas for Early Years
Kristen Ali Eglinton has ideas for
motivating at pre-school level
Page 9
The Primary Art and Design Subject
Leaders’ Handbook
Our pull-out and keep handbook starts here
Page 13
Simple Perspective
Teaching points from Giles Hughes
Page 14
Do You DARE?
ICT in schools should be about more than
data processing and digital encyclopaedias.
Rebecca Sinker introduces DARE a new
primary CD rom
Page 16
Through the Eyes of a Child
A new early years education philosophy
developed in Italy is trialled in Cardiff with
Nigel Meager
Page 18
Power Drawing
The Campaign for Drawing helps children
to learn says Eileen Adams
Page 20
All about Books
New primary publications
Insert
Anthony Cragg poster
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publication are not necessarily those of the NSEAD.
Editor: Amanda Burnside amandaburnside@nsead.org
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THE NEW MAGAZINE FOR PRIMARY AND PRE-SCHOOL TEACHERS OF ART, CRAFT & DESIGN