Early Years (0-7 yrs)
Check out all of our courses for little ones this half term!
Ukulele For Beginners (4-5 yrs)
Monday 13th February, 10.30 - 12.30 (£22)
Come and try out the ukulele and get started on the right note! Join us on this fun-filled introduction to the instrument. Learn to play your first song and have fun making music. Participants will learn the basics, under the guidance of a professional musician. All levels are welcome; bring your own instrument or borrow one of ours.
Tutor: Jay Hammond
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Roundabout Half Term Taster (Music, 4-7 yrs)
Monday 13th & Tuesday 14th February, 10.00 - 12.30 both days (£65)
Roundabout has been running at the Conservatoire for over 30 years! Since 1992 we have been introducing children aged 5-7 to music through this exciting, informative and inclusive year-long course. Are you thinking of signing up? Perhaps you are already on the waiting list? Well then, this two-day taster is perfect for you! Join us for two mornings in half term to explore all of the many instruments that learners get to explore in their year of Roundabout; strings, flute, piano, brass, percussion and guitar. You'll get time with each instrument, and even try playing in an orchestra. Join us and join the fun!
Tutor: Roundabout Lead Phil Entwistle & Roundabout Tutors
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Ukulele For Beginners (6-7 yrs)
Tuesday 14th February, 10.30 - 12.30 (£22)
Come and try out the ukulele and get started on the right note! Join us on this fun-filled introduction to the instrument. Learn to play your first song and have fun making music. Participants will learn the basics, under the guidance of a professional musician. All levels are welcome; bring your own instrument or borrow one of ours.
Tutor: Jay Hammond
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Create A Fish Collage (Art, 5-11 yrs)
Wednesday 15th February, 09.30 - 15.30 (£58)
Using acrylic paints, we will create a beautiful underwater scene. Starting with the background, you will create your water - is it a green lake or a blue ocean? While this is drying, we will create another abstract painting using our favourite colours, and we will cut this out to make our fish, of all different shapes and sizes. We will paste the fish in a swirly circle to make a beautiful shoal collage!
Tutor: Lilly Walker
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Marine Myths (Art, 4-6 yrs)
Wednesday 15th February, 13.30 - 15.30 (£22)
Make up your own mythical sea creatures - giant squid or Mer-people in a collage. Do you know the story of the Rainbow Fish? Let's add our own shiny Rainbow fish, made using everyday materials like silver foil.
Tutor: Sue Harris
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White Cliffs (Art, 3-5 yrs)
Wednesday 15th February, 10.00 - 12.00 (£22)
Looking at the edges of our British Isles, and the chalky cliffs, we will create our own painting using different materials to create rocks - sand, coffee, soil and paint. We will paint our stormy seas at the base of the cliff, and create a boat from junk modelling materials to sail the seas.
Tutor: Sue Harris
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Ukulele For Beginners (4-5 yrs)
Wednesday 15th February, 10.30 - 12.30 (£22)
Come and try out the ukulele and get started on the right note! Join us on this fun-filled introduction to the instrument. Learn to play your first song and have fun making music. Participants will learn the basics, under the guidance of a professional musician. All levels are welcome; bring your own instrument or borrow one of ours.
Tutor: Joseph Thomas
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Modroc Marine Creatures (Art, 5-11 yrs)
Thursday 16th February, 09.30 - 15.30 (£58)
In this workshop we will celebrate a whole host of endangered marine species and all the work that is being done to save them. We will create a 3D model of your favourite species using Modroc - will it be a Grey Whale, a Manatee, a Monk Seal, or perhaps the Atlantic Ridley Sea Turtle? We’ll also create a beautiful background for our model to sit in - let’s paint a lovely clean sea or ocean!
Tutor: Lilly Walker
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Blaschka Creations (Art, 4-6 yrs)
Thursday 16th February, 13.30 - 15.30 (£22)
Leopold Blaschka was an artist known for his tiny delicate biological sea creatures created in glass. We will make our own jellyfish creation out of plaster, string, beads and try and create similar effects to make a hanging sculpture.
Tutor: Sue Harris
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Monet’s Water Lilies (Art, 3-5 yrs)
Thursday 16th February, 10.00 - 12.00 (£22)
Claude Monet repeatedly painted the water lily ponds in his garden in Giverny, France. We will be inspired by Impressionism to create our own paper pools using wax resist, bleeding tissue paper and collage. We will add water lilies and some frogs!
Tutor: Sue Harris
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Ukulele For Beginners (4-5 yrs)
Thursday 16th February, 10.30 - 12.30 (£22)
Come and try out the ukulele and get started on the right note! Join us on this fun-filled introduction to the instrument. Learn to play your first song and have fun making music. Participants will learn the basics, under the guidance of a professional musician. All levels are welcome; bring your own instrument or borrow one of ours.
Tutor: Joseph Thomas
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Ukulele For Beginners (4-5 yrs)
Friday 17th February, 10.30 - 12.30 (£22)
Come and try out the ukulele and get started on the right note! Join us on this fun-filled introduction to the instrument. Learn to play your first song and have fun making music. Participants will learn the basics, under the guidance of a professional musician. All levels are welcome; bring your own instrument or borrow one of ours.
Tutor: Russell Harris
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A Visit to the Aquarium (Art, 3-5 yrs)
Saturday 18th February, 10.00 - 12.00 (£22)
Have you been to an Aquarium? We will create some of the creatures we see there, including making a jellyfish in a bottle! We will also create the effect of the watery tanks inside an aquarium using paint and printing techniques.
Tutor: Sue Harris
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Fish On A Dish (Art, 4-6 yrs)
Saturday 18th February, 13.30 - 15.30 (£22)
Inspired by the ceramics of Picasso, we will make our own Picasso style plate of fish. Will a slice of lemon accompany your fish sculpture or perhaps some chips? We will explore textures and rubbings during our class, and use oil pastels, paint, clay, glue and watercolours.
Tutor: Sue Harris
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