Make something you’ll actually use.
Pottery classes in Brindle Cross for complete beginners and people who’ve caught the bug. Tasters from £48, six-week wheel courses and open studio.
12
wheels, and room at the tables for hand-building
2
electric kilns, fired every week
3 weeks
from your class to collecting your fired pots
4,100+
people taught since we opened in 2016
Classes
Start with a taster. Stay for the course.
All classes
Taster
Taster: try the wheel
Two hours on the wheel with a teacher beside you. Make a bowl or two, pick a glaze, and collect them fired about three weeks later.
£48
2 hours
Course
Six-week wheel course
The proper start. Centring, opening, pulling up walls and trimming, one step a week, until you can throw a set of mugs on your own.
£265
6 weeks
Workshop
Hand-building weekend
No wheel needed. Pinch, coil and slab your way to a planter, a jug and a small serving dish over two relaxed days.
£150
2 days
Membership
Open studio membership
For anyone who has done a course. Use a wheel and the hand-building tables during open studio hours, with a shelf of your own.
£85 a month
Cancel any time
Upcoming dates
What’s on this autumn.
Full timetable
The six-week wheel course
From lump of clay to a set of mugs.
Two and a half hours a week, eight people, one teacher. Clay, glazes and firings are all included.
Book the course
1
Week 1
Wedging and centring
Getting the clay to sit still in the middle of the wheel. The hardest bit, and it clicks for everyone eventually.
2
Week 2
Opening and cylinders
Opening up the clay and pulling even walls. You’ll make a lot of cylinders and squash most of them. That’s fine.
3
Week 3
Bowls
Shaping out from the cylinder. Everyone keeps at least one bowl from this week.
4
Week 4
Trimming
Turning last week’s leather-hard pots upside down and carving a foot ring.
5
Week 5
Handles and mugs
Pulling handles and attaching them so they stay on in the kiln.
6
Week 6
Glazing
Dipping your bisque-fired pots in our studio glazes. Collect them three weeks later.
Made at the Clay Yard
Pots our students took home.
Speckled mugs from the six-week course
Pasta bowls, glazed in oatmeal
Test bowls for Mei’s glaze shelf
Hand-built bottles, unglazed
“
I booked the taster as a birthday present for my wife and ended up signing us both up for the six-week course. We now own far too many slightly wonky mugs.
Owen, six-week course, spring 2026
Gift vouchers
Give someone an afternoon of mud.
Vouchers last 12 months and work for any class, course or open studio. We post a printed card or email a PDF the same day.
£25
Any amount
£48
Taster
£95
Couples
£265
Course
The Clay Yard
A gift voucher for
One six-week wheel course
To Sam, love Jo
£265