The Arc project 2005 and beginning of our Friendship garden
Each year we make a class daisy chain. Children write their name on the stems. |
The daisies are joined together during a circle time activity. This is then displayed in the classroom to remind children that we are all friends. |
Sarah Sabin, our artist in residence took the idea of our daisy chain and created clay tiles with the children. The tiles started as reliefs made from found objects. |
A relief daisy ready to be cast in plaster. |
Pouring in the plaster |
Once the plaster had dried the relief tile was extracted. The plaster was cleaned and made ready for the children to mallet in the clay. |
The clay tiles were eased out of the casts and then fired in Sarah's kiln. |
Sarah explored hand gestures with the chidren that encouraged citizenship and friendship e.g. waving, namaste greetings, caring, picking up litter, etc. The children then made birds from old gloves to remind them of caring hands and nurturing wild life. |
Children used found objects to make their bird's features. |
Children made paper hand birds and wrote messages on them to remind them about being a good citizen. |
Children decorated birdboxes with miniaturised images of their drawings, reflecting their understanding of citizenship. |
The tile reliefs, bird boxes and glove birds on display in the classroom. |
The work was displayed at Firstsite @ The Minories Art Gallery. We took the children to see their work and the work created by other consortium schools involved in the Arc project. |
Meanwhile children were busy planting sunflower seeds, creating the beginnings of our Friendship Garden. Click here to see how the garden grew. |
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