Art, Design and Technology

The girls absolutely love drawing, cooking, creating and making things. Peggy, in particular, has a love of woodwork and building random things out of what she can find in the house/garage/bin.

We don’t follow any sort of curriculum at all for this subject. We very much facilitate what the girls ask to do and try wherever possible to say “yes” to their requests, however much hassle and mess that may create!

You can see what we’ve been up to over the years below. It can be anything from wardrobe building, to photographing flowers, to creating fake wounds to art history.

Monthly Round-Up

May 2025

We’re pretty much on the countdown to our summer break now so we’re on a mission to tick lots of things off our to do lists. But of course we also need to celebrate a birthday and get out and about too!

Workshop at The National Videogame Museum

We took a trip to Sheffield for a home-ed workshop at the National Videogame Museum – creating sprites and playing all manner of games.

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Trips | Art, Design and Technology | Computing | UK Day trips – near Manchester

Tour of Energy House 2.0

Energy House 2.0 was opened in February 2022 and is the largest research facility of its type in the world.

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Art, Design and Technology | Environmental Management iGCSE | Physics | Science | Trips | UK Day trips – near Manchester

Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons

We couldn’t help but have an instant reaction to this immersive installation at Manchester’s Aviva Studios, and very much enjoyed watching other people have a similar reaction to the works on display.

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Art, Design and Technology | Trips | UK Day trips – near Manchester

Home Ed Creativity Fair

Following last month’s really enjoyable Geography Fair, the girls jumped at the chance to have a display at this month’s Creativity Fair. These events are organised by a home ed Mum (Sarah from Let Them Be Small, @mssburns on Instagram) and give home ed children an opportunity to share their work with other families. Agatha chose to do her … Read more

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Art, Design and Technology

Inventive Architecture course

Over the past few months I have been doing an Inventive Architecture course with Homemade Education. I have done a fashion history course with them before and that was really fun, so I wanted to do another topic. Over six one-hour sessions, I learned about architecture and the ways it can effect people and their … Read more

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Art, Design and Technology | Physics | Science

Manchester Architecture Tour

I found this free tour on Eventbrite and thought we’d give it a go. It was run by Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks who led us on a walk, together with another 15 or so people, around the city centre looking at different styles of buildings from the Classical, Italianate, Gothic, Baroque and Modernist … Read more

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Art, Design and Technology | History | Trips | UK Day trips – near Manchester