The Art team - Session One.

Spent our first Art session with the children. Interesting to see how their ideas are beginning to be explored, with all of them working straightaway on large A1 sheets of paper. They haven't completed a full story as yet, so haven't got a narrative to match to their drawings, but are extremely comfortable using paints and working on a larger scale. The children also worked in pairs, which was an interesting assignment. Art has the potential to be a solitary occupation and so seeing a collaborative process evolving was really fascinating.

Project moves to Devonshire Road School

Well, the wait is finally over! Our Project has now moved on to Devonshire Road Primary School, after the Summer break. And everyone is really excited to get back to being creative.
We have decided to split the writing team and the art team this time to give a more intensive, focused session. Marjorie and Myra introduced the project and have now spent two sessions working with the children to develop their ideas for the stories.

Gazette article for Claremont School

Some funding made available to help with our project

Gazette article for Kincraig School project

Day 4 Week 4 at Claremont

Another exciting day spent in the classroom. We had the privilege of hearing the children read their stories out from the front of the class and then to see lots of the artwork already produced. Not only are there some really great writers in the group, but there are also some really great artists!

Claremont - Day Three - Week three

We actually spent our session in the main classroom this time with the whole group (minus a couple that had gone on a trip), so this meant we had a lot more new recruits as well as the regular group. All the children had been working on this project during the week, taking ownership of it and coming up with some really great things. They had even made a display for the wall (see image below), thinking of words describing the forest, finding images around the theme and even displayed the photographs that we had taken of them hard at work. What was also exciting was the piece of writing that was displayed on the monitor and read out by one of the boys, which they had all worked on together. They had used some fabulous adjectives which helped to conjure up the imagery of the forest and Daisy's pending adventure.

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And now the next set of photographs needs to be in a separate grouping, as in the absence of Myra today, I broke photography rules and had the children 'show off' their drawings with 'big grins'- (sorry!) 

and then who could refuse getting the camera out again for this great t-shirt 

                                             and then finally to capture the classes 'toy rabbit'!