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Welcome to kids101.net

For months we have been telling you about this great art competition. Are you ready to participate in the NES Arnold Art Competition?

This competition is wide open! No holds barred. Every kid of every age can get creative and enter this competition. Best of all, you can choose the topic and you can use any medium - paint, draw, sculpt, sew, bead, collage, pottery - anything at all.

We now have over 11,000 original pieces of art displayed in the gallery created by children; and we now display art work from children from all over the world.







It's important that you recognise your pupils' creative work so enter their artwork into the NES Arnold online competition, simply choose the most relevant category for your class.

Key Stage 1 (including reception), Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4

Two prizes will be awarded for each category:
1st Prize - The artwork that receives the most votes in the gallery will be awarded £50 of resources for their classroom

2nd Prize - The artwork that is deemed by the panel of judges to be highly creative will be awarded £25 of resources for their classroom

Certificate - EVERY pupil entered in this competition will be awarded a Certificate of Participation - no one is left out!

Once again, you are free to choose the topic and medium (e.g. drawing, painting, sculpture, etc) you would like to use to create your artwork, so it's up to you!

Let everyone in your class be creative; remember the more entries that you enter, the better your class' chance of winning a prize!

It's also important that you encourage everyone in your school to vote for their classmates and to choose their favourite art work!

Entry into the competition is FREE.

Voting for your favourite art work is FREE.

There is nothing stopping you from showing the world you're the best!!

How to enter:
Step 1: Visit www.kids101-art.co.uk
Step 2: Click on NES Arnold Competition
Step 3: Click on Entry Form
Step 4: Fill in your details and upload your images
Step 5: View your images online - your images will appear in the gallery after they have been approved (no more than 24 hours after submitted)



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The kids101-art Gallery has achieved two significant milestones since launching the Letraset Cartoon Madness art competition for children. We now have over 6,000 original pieces of art displayed in the gallery created by children; and we now display art work from children from all over the world.

In this latest art competition, we have received entries from children all over the UK but also from Italy, France, USA, and India.

Vijayendra from Mumbai
Yilong from Italy
Alan from USA

The art work confirms that no matter where you live or what language you speak, everyone can communicate with art!

To see the competition entries and to vote for your favourites, please go to Cartoon Madness



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Emma Lee-Potter of SecEd has followed the growth and development of the kids101-art gallery since last year. She has seen more than 200 schools join the gallery and has had the opportunity to enjoy more than 3,900 creative pieces of work.

In the article from the 15th February edition, Emma describes that the success of the gallery is down to the students and splashes 5 amazing pieces of work on the front page of SecEd.


The article further describes the launch of kids101-art Art Competition sponsored by the Royal Mail. The competition is open to all school children and coincides with the issue of the Royal Mail's collection of Sea Life stamps in February.

The entire article can be viewed on at Artist of the Future


For more details on the Sea Life Competition

See and vote for the entrants in the competition album.

View the Royal Mail 1st day cover Sea Life Stamps
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The work to promote the kids101-art gallery continues with a full review of kids101-art by Paul Vale in the Winter edition of Virtual Education. Virtual Education is published by PC World Education.

Under the "Creativity" banner of Virtual Learning, Paul Vale describes the accessibility and features of kids101-art. His conclusion, "The website is a fantastic interactive experience, where children can upload their own art to be viewed by others, but also takes inspiration from other pupils at other schools. It is also a proven resource for teachers and parents, whether it's art teachers looking for examples of creativity or parents to share with their children when working on art or craft projects at home. Make sure you make www.kids101-art.co.uk one of your bookmarked sites today."

Read the full article.


The article starts:

Kids of all ages can show off their talents on the kids101art.co.uk website. Paul Vale pays the gallery a visit...
Designed to celebrate the creativity of our children, kids101-art.co.uk is a virtual gallery. The site was developed several years ago by art teachers and their supporters, wanting to find a way to share and exhibit pupils' artwork to a wider audience.

Paul Vale is a freelance ICT teacher and co-ordinator. He provides expert views for many educational publications.

The article then goes into a step by step review of the entire gallery. It details:

With almost 3,000 original pieces of art being exhibited in kids101-art. It's an idea whose time has come.



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Here at kids101-art we are proud of what we do - but we are even prouder of the exposure we can give to the hard work and creativity of teachers and students.

We continue to find new ways to promote your work and this week, we are featured by the Training and Development Agency for Schools in their monthly news at www.tda.gov.uk.

Read the full article

The article starts:

Monthly news - Art pupils enjoy their very own 'You Tube'
These days, you don't have to be a prospective Picasso, budding Botticelli or emerging Emin to have your artwork exhibited. A new website is allowing people across the globe the chance to enjoy pieces, not from bohemian cafes of pre-war Paris, Renaissance Italy or even a grubby 1990s London bedroom, but from today's schools.

The article then goes on to say:

Already almost 700 images from 126 schools have been uploaded onto www.kids101-art.co.uk, a site that's set to become the 'You Tube' of art education.

The article includes comments from the John Thurlow from New Monument School . You can browse the schools Year 5 Walk A Line work here - or watch a slideshow.

We hope that this is only the start of a long and fantastic journey for kids101-art and schools and teachers but most importantly a journey of creativity, discovery and pride for the children who create such fantastic pieces of work.
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by Pete Henshaw


Welcome to SecEd readers - below is the article that appeared in SedEd.

Celebrated artists like David Hockney and Damien Hirst had better watch out.

A new website has been launched where schools from all over the country can showcase their pupils' artwork.

More than a hundred schools, a third of them secondaries, have already registered to join kids101, and have posted stunning works of art online, from self portraits, collages and masks, through to sculpture and woodwork.

Southampton-based web designer David Channon hit on the idea for the virtual art gallery after chatting with his art teacher sister Clare.

"I thought it would be great to provide a showcase to illustrate how amazing children's artwork is," explains Mr Channon, who is planning to launch similar sites for design, literary work and music. "It's a very useful resource for art teachers too, because it offers ideas and shows what other schools are doing."

Schools themselves do not have to pay anything to join the site - revenue comes from community and corporate sponsorship.

Teachers have been hugely enthusiastic about the chance to display children's artwork.

"It's a wonderful way to show how brilliant it is," says one art and design co-ordinator. "If you have used all the walls in the school to exhibit artwork, where else is there to go? The answer is to go into cyberspace, reaching the far flung corners of the globe. It means mums and dads get to see the products of their children's art lessons too."

For details, visit www.kids101-art.co.uk
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The Sunday Times has produced a supplement called "New Entrepreneurs" where they describe a wide range of issues that new start up businesses will encounter and how to deal with them. In the article "New model entrepreneurs do their own way", Gareth Huw Davies describes several office models and their advantages. kids101.net is representative of "The Virtual Office" model.

When contacted by the Sunday Times to participate in this review, we happily agreed to share our experiences, the advantages of managing our business wherever we can find an internet connection and the flexibility of our business structure afforded by using collaborative web technology.

The sharp rise in Web 2.0 communities has led entrepreneurs, and those who understand the technology, to search for business models that would improve the chances for real life community benefits. From this need emerged a new breed of company that embraced a virtual model of website development utilising the best web developers and the best business development organisations.

kids101.net is a collaboration between SKG IT Ltd and Webtalk Limited. These companies have come together to pool their skills, resources and energies for the development and management of exciting web sites for sharing the manifest talents of creative kids and resourceful teachers all over the UK.

We encourage all Sunday Times readers to enjoy the gallery by clicking on the ART logo. Please let us know your comments by using our Feedback pages.
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Book Your Exhibition Gallery Now:

It's time to book your Exhibition space. The kids101-art team will attend your exhibition, photograph, put it into your Exhibition Gallery, add comments AND do it all for free. All you have to do is let us know when and where you art exhibition is taking place. Follow this link for an online form http://www.kids101-art.co.uk/cu_resource_contrib.php or email Guy.Beaudin@kids101-art.co.uk with your request.




CREATIVE KIDS WIN ART PADS IN ROYAL MAIL'S CHRISTMAS STAMP ART COMPETITION FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Ghyllgrove Community Junior School of Basildon and Smith Street Primary School of Whitechapel, London won computer Art Pads for their entire class in an art competition to mark the 40th anniversary of Royal Mail's special Christmas stamps.

Generously sponsored by Art Pads which are great for creating art as pupils use a special cordless pen instead of a mouse to make their own drawings on a computer. The pen allows youngsters to draw, trace and write more naturally. It can even be used to improve pupils' handwriting!
For the past 40 years Royal Mail has produced a special set of festive stamps. This year is the first year that the stamps have been designed from start to finish using a computer.

Royal Mail wants to encourage the artistic creativity of children and the Art Pad does this in a fun and exciting way. Art Pad is hi-tech, but is easy for primary school pupils to use and also develops traditional drawing skills. An Art Pad can also be used to control other applications as it can be used just like a mouse, making it a versatile and user friendly input device.

There were two age groups in this competition:

The first prize per age group was 26 Art Pads - so there should be enough for every child in a class to be creative at the same time. These children can now use technology to be creative.

As there are 40 postcode areas in Royal Mail's South East Region, it was decided to award a runner's-up prize of an Art Pad for a school in each postcode area.

The competition was judged by Melanie Corfield, Royal Mail's Head of External Relations for London & the South East, Julietta Edgar Head of Royal Mail's Special Stamps and John Attree of Skill City, London First.

Royal Mail SE Stamp Art Exhibition Exhibition Albums - Slideshow of All Exhibition Images
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Chatsmore Catholic High School - ,
11/12/2006 +66 images



20 images added to GCSE - Slideshow

Chatsmore Catholic High School Albums - Slideshow of All Images
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James Allens Girls School - East Dulwich, London
10/12/2006 +252 images



227 images added to Exhibition 2006 In Detail - Slideshow
25 images added to Exhibition 2006 Overview - Slideshow

James Allens Girls School Albums - Slideshow of All Images

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Mullion Comprehensive School - Mullion, Cornwall
26/11/2006 +554 images



474 images added to 2006 GCSE Exhibition In Detail - Slideshow
80 images added to 2006 GCSE Exhibition Overview - Slideshow

Mullion Comprehensive School Albums - Slideshow of All Images

Please note that although we have loads of space available in the Exhibition Gallery, we only have a few photographers who can get around the country. So please book early as the offer to photograph your exhibition is based on a first-come, first-served basis.

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