Art Bytes - Championing Creativity for yr 5 and yr 9 pupils!
Hello Everyone,
My name is Emily Carter and I am the Art Bytes Coordinator for the North.
Art Bytes is an EdTech programme and we would love to involve schools who appreciate the importance of students studying art and the important role creativity can have in children and young people’s lives.
Come and join us online to learn more about this inter school art competition - with a virtual gallery, online voting and in person celebration event at a national gallery.
What is Art Bytes?
A national EdTech programme, Art Bytes is an online, inter-school, artcompetition taking place annually. It culminates in a virtualgalleryexhibition of the winning artworks and a in personcelebrationevent for teachers, students and their families at our cultural partner venues or livestreamed at school.
It is designed to buildconfidence and nurturetalent, allowing children and young people to see galleries as places “for them” and encourages future culturalengagement.
There is intentionally no theme for the artwork entries, to make it easier for you to fit it into your existing schemes of work.
The competition is open to all Primary (Year 5) and Secondary (Year 9) and SEND schools across England.
Why participate in Art Bytes?
Champion the creativity of the nation’s next generation using art and virtual technology, raising aspirations for better futures.
It builds on over ten years' experience running our successful North West dot-art Schools competition, proven to nurture talent, raiseambition and developconfidence, as well as support mental health and help develop vital skills for future employment.
Raise students’ aspirations and engage student’s families.\u202F
Help build valuableculturalcapital in students and tackle the disadvantagegap that the pandemic has increased markedly.
Raise the profile of your school in your own region and nationally. (Often linked to your school’s improvement plan.)
If you want to share with your colleagues the positive impact that being involved in Art Bytes can have on a pupil, please see our forerunner programme, dot-art School’s first winner in 2013, James Murphy.
