On Thursday, year 2 spent the day at SM&AG. We enjoyed exploring the different galleries and displays, interacting with the exhibits and sketching our favourite artwork.

We also had a wonderful art/history workshop with Hannah and Sasha from the museum team, who taught us about the history of the quarry. We walked into the quarry to do some sketching then brought out drawings back with us to inspire our own ink prints.

The children were engaged and had many compliments from the museum volunteers and members of the public!

After studying the history of the Quarry, year 2 took a trip to the Dingle to look out for the Harley Stone, Shoemaker’s shrine and did some super sketching. The children loved seeing the ducklings and baby moorhens swimming around local artist Jacob Chandler’s steel sculpture ‘Poise and Tension III’, which is featured in this year’s Shrewsbury Arts Trail.