Eastnor Pottery and The Flying Potter - Pottery Experiences for families, groups and individuals
So pleased with these ‘Values’ pottery tile panels we co-created with Malvern Parish C of E Primary School. Each child in the school contributed to the arts project by making and painting an individual tile.
The artwork is going to look stunning up onthe walls of the main hall and a creative reminder of the values that underpin the ethos of the School.
Everybody look this way!…
Preparing for the team photo at the end of a thoroughly enjoyable pottery birthday party for a creative 6 year old.
After the pic was taken the clay was safely back in the bag, the children enjoyed a fantstic pottery picnic supplied by the birthday girls’ mum & dad.
Good times 
Great to be back at Ledbury Primary School Nursery working with the youngest and most creative pottery participants.
Every year we take bags of squishy clay, tools and a potter’s wheel into LPS Nursery to explore language and communication whilst working with clay. Parents too are invited into school to work alongside their children.
Here’s what one parent (Joe’s mum!) had to say about the projec: (text taken from a pamphlet produced by the school)
“It gave me a real insight into understanding how the Early Years works. As parents we had the oportunity to communicate with our children in an inspiring setting with a good role model, Jon the Potter. The project just enchanced the wonderful work Rose already does in Nursery. I was also amazed at how much knowledge Joe had about pottery. As parents we don’t realise how much they are learning. It also gave parents who wern’t so confident in coming into school the opportunity to build relationships with staff in the Nursery. It was great when Joe brought his pot home and was really proud of his work.”
The project has been so succesful at LPS that it’s been rolled out into other settings. During the Summer term we worked with the Nursery class at Cradley Primary School and this Autumn we have just completed a six week block at Ledbury Play Station.
A team of 30 employees from Mira Showers visited the Pottery to creatively explore ideas about how individuals operate within an organisation.
The team had spent the morning at the office working with their Insights Discovery profiles to help them better understand themselves and their colleagues to improve overall team performance.
After lunch, they made the short journey to Eastnor Pottery to interpret what they had learnt about themselves in clay.
Each participant made and painted an individual tile as well as each taking a turn on the potter’s wheel.
Once the tiles have been fired and glazed, they will be hung in the Marketing department back at Company HQ, as a permanent reminder of the teambuilding event and the importance of working as a group.
The afternoon was hailed a success and this is what Marketing Director Craig Baker had to say about their Eastnor Pottery experience:
“A huge thank you for such an enjoyable day yesterday. The whole team was fully engaged and we have had some great feedback. We are all looking forward to putting our installation together”
Children’s October ½ term Holiday Pottery Sessions
‘Hubble Bubble’
Wed 26 Oct 2016
It feels like only yesterday the children returned to school after the long Summer break, but already we’re busy cooking up fun and creative things for youngsters to do in the fast approaching October ½ term.
This time, ‘Hubble Bubble’ is the topical theme for the sessions scheduled for 26th October in half term.
Participants aged 4yrs+ will have the opportunity to model a pottery cauldron filled with toe-curling clay ingredients. Poisoned entrails, eye of newt, toe of frog – that sort of thing. We’re certain the children will make Shakespeare very proud indeed! The youngsters will also paint their creations with ghoulish slips and ghastly under-glaze colours.
The resulting work will be left here at the Pottery to be dried, fired and glazed, ready for collection a few weeks later.
The 1.5 hr workshop sessions are designed to suit two age groups, (4-8yrs at 11.30am and 9-12yrs at 2pm) although younger or older siblings will never be turned away from either session. Places cost £15 per child (with a 10% discount for x3 or more places booked) and can only be reserved by telephoning 01531 633886 or email admin@eastnorpottery.co.uk
