Drawing Club at Whitehill Junior School

Booking available for Yr 3 and Yr 4 children

Autumn, 2nd Half Term

BEGINS WEDNESDAY 4th NOVEMBER 2026

3.15-4.30pm

Who is Drawing Club for?:

Drawing Club is for children at Whitehill Junior School who would like to come and draw! The aim is simply to have fun making art - everyone is welcome. Book your child’s place by sending me email and I’ll send over confirmation and payment info.

Why Drawing Club? Drawing is fun and it’s good for our well being. It can help to understand our thoughts and feelings, and help us to notice the world around us. Drawing gives us a space to express ourselves and a space to feel calm.

I hear so many adults and children say “Oh but I can’t draw…” or “I’m not very good at drawing”. Our culture somehow makes us feel this way and I am on a mission to change that! Drawing Club is here to show us that all of us can feel good spending time drawing, connecting with the paper and ourselves. It’s not about making work that is perfect, it’s about enjoying the process of drawing and making art - every mark made is valid (and if we don’t like the work we make, we can just turn it into something new or recycle it!)

The time spent drawing together will also support developing confidence, teamwork, speaking and listening, alongside growing our creativity and imagination.

Club dates for Autumn 2026 : Wednesdays 3.15-4.30pm (Y3 and Y4 children)

7x sessions take us up to the end of half term (total cost £70).

Wednesdays :  4th Nov/ 11th Nov / 18th Nov/ 25th Nov / 2nd Dec / 9th Dec / 16th Dec

How does the club work?

Children will come to the Group Room near the hall as school finishes. They can bring a snack and a drink with them. After welcoming them and a few minutes rest, we’ll start the session. Before home time, we’ll look at and talk about our work and we’ll all help tidy away at the end of the session.

What will we do there? It is a process led drawing club - this means it’s not about making perfect piece of artwork to hang in a gallery each week. It’s about having fun and exploring different methods of drawing. We’ll play different drawing games and activities, with different themes - this helps children to follow their own lead with gentle support and encouragement. There will be a variety of drawing materials and papers available to make marks with - over the half term we’ll use things like pencils, pens, chalk pastels, charcoal, acrylic markers, paint sticks, oil pastels, graphite sticks, ink, scissors, glue, collage with different types and colours of paper. We’ll use different tools and techniques, and we’ll definitely make mistakes and learn to turn them into something new.

We’ll use different sizes, textures and colour papers, and we’ll also draw on things like cardboard, acetate, tracing paper etc to explore how those surfaces work too. We’ll draw on our own, in pairs and in a group. We’ll draw from observation (things we can see), draw from imagination and explore abstract drawing too.

How do I book?

This half term the club is open to Y5/Y6 children (Y3/Y4 will have their turn in January - we alternate between the two year groups each half term).

Let me know via email if your child would like a place and I’ll confirm their place and send over booking and payment details. If you’d like to pay in two instalments, just let me know. My email is hello@alexa-loy.com or you can use the contact tab along the top of my website above.

What if the places are all gone?

There are 12 places available to keep the group small. If we are full this half term, we have a waiting list. Email me to add your child to the waiting list and I’ll email you to offer them a place before the next time the club is offered to their age range.

Please note club will run for lower/upper school during these half terms :

Yr 3/Yr 4 children : Nov 2026 (Autumn 2) Feb 2027 (Spring 2)

Yr 5/Yr 6 children : Jan (Spring 1) , April (Summer 1)

Who is Alexa?

I'm an artist, photographer and teacher.

I've been offering Drawing Club after school since October 2024, and my children go to Whitehill too so you might see me in the playground! I work regularly with the Broadway Gallery in Letchworth on various community arts projects, both at the gallery and in Letchworth schools. This year I was project co-ordinator for ‘Play, Discover, Share’ the free summer arts and play programme at the gallery - so you may have seen me there over the summer holidays!

In 2025 I was Artist in Residence at Hitchin Library and loved seeing so many Whitehill families come along and make art together.

Understanding the story of people and places through curiosity and play has always been at the heart of what I do. I initially trained as a teacher, working for five years in a glorious Camden primary school, before stepping away to become a photographer and grow my drawing and painting practice. I am now enjoying bringing the strands of that experience into community arts.

The practical bits: I'm fully DBS-checked and have public liability insurance. My safeguarding and privacy policies are linked here. First Aid and fire safety follow Whitehill Junior School's own procedures.

Fun Drawing for Grown Ups!

If you're a parent who fancies picking up a pencil yourself, you are very welcome and join me at Hitchin Draw More, or at Broadway Gallery's social drawing evenings - no experience needed and there’s no pressure to create the next masterpiece, just an evening for you, drawing!