Network B, Subgroup 1

Rice Lane Juniors - In school exhibition

nbsg1 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:34:00 GMT

A temporary exhibition took place during Parents evening, showing the windows created by all three Year 6 classes. The pupils will take their own windows home at the end of term, but, the large perspex windows will go on show at the Albert Dock in October.

Rice Lane Juniors - Y6 Teacher led activites

nbsg1 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:27:00 GMT

Rice Lane Juniors have been adapting the techniques that they used in the Generation21 workshops and creating some exciting new work.

Using photographs of themselves and a piece of perspex from a picture frame they have created portraits- Rice Lane Juniors, Class of 2008

Year 6 have been reading Goodnight Mr Tom. 6H have created some new windows which depict the soldiers in this story

All three Year 6 classes have then taken this one stage further. 6B by posed as soldiers in photographs, and then created sillhouettes out of black paper. These have then been glued to an oil pastel landscape.

Longmoor Primary - In school exhibition

nbsg1 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:24:00 GMT

The conference room at Longmoor primary has been transformed into a temporary gallery for the school's windows to the future. Their artwork will be on display here until the exhibition at Albert Dock in October

Longmoor Primary - Y6 teacher led activities

nbsg1 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:16:00 GMT

Year six as part of their transition project where tasked at sketching images of things that represented their life at present. They then took it in turns to stand up and present what the images meant to them. The same exercise was carried out but instead of sketching images of now, they were asked to sketch images of their future self.

The class was asked to sketch a picture of them and surround it with items that represented them. This was then used as the background of the window. They were then given a piece of transparency film to draw on. They were asked to draw an image of how they see themselves in the future, again with items they hope to have or things they hope to achieve. This was then used as the window pane.

This is the Y6 teacher's example:

and examples of the student's work

Emmaus School - Minibeasts: a window onto their habitat

nbsg1 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:04:00 GMT

Thursday 10 July 2008, pm
and Monday 14 July 2008, am

Workshop assistance from Sean and Claire, Archbishop Beck High School pupils

From consultation with the link teacher, it was decided that the Artist, Claire Weetman would work with both Year 2 classes over two half day sessions. The theme would tie in to the curriculum topic- minibeasts.

The session started with a quick discussion with both classes about minibeasts and their habitats. We were going to make observational drawings of minibeasts, using photographs, books and models in the classroom. Claire gave us some tips on creating our drawings:

The most important tool we could use when drawing is our eyes - it is really important to look at all of the shapes and details
When we start drawing we need to press really lightly with our pencil - then when we are happy with the lines we can press harder
Keep looking at what you are drawing!
We used our pencil to shade in some of our drawings - to make things look darker we pressed very hard, and to make bits look paler we pressed more lightly

We also made some drawings of habitats - we looked very carefully at some flowers and leaves from the garden.

On Monday morning we started by using the brightly coloured paint pens to trace over our pencil drawings. We drew our brightly coloured minibeasts and habitats onto thin sheets of plastic.

The window was a good place to prop the pictures up while they dry

We made backgrounds with pictures of habitats using brightly coloured card and paper. We used our drawings to help us remember what the plants looked like.

We cut out the window frame using a template, folded it carefully, and then stuck our plastic sheets inside

There were two big sheets of plastic that we also drew our pictures onto. Claire and Sean from Archbishop Beck High School helped us out. These big windows will be on display at the Albert Dock in October.

When everyone had finished their drawing we all had a look through the minibeast window

Together, we all came up with some words that describe habitats, and some words about what we need to do to look after the minibeasts in future

Our wonderful words were written onto strips of paper in funky lettering, and we stuck them around our windows. Take a look at some of our windows into a minibeast's habitat.

Redbridge High School - Workshop 2

nbsg1 — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:21:00 GMT

Wednesday 9 July 2008
3.30 - 5.45pm
Afterschool Club

Capital of Culture photographer, Rob Cook, visited our session to take some photographs of what we were up to. Some of the participants even got a go of his camera.

Claire brought printouts of the pictures that had been taken last week, some garden flowers and leaves, a laminator, our drawings on acetate and some colourful sticky back plastic.

We used various methods to create our large window pane. We laminated photographs, cut stones out of the patterned sticky back plastic, put flowers and leaves into the laminating pouches, stuck the pictures to the plastic with coloured tape to make a frame. We recreated the water fountain and the flags using sticky back shapes and tried various ways of layering items.

Blessed Sacrament Infant School - workshop 2

nbsg1 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:07:00 GMT

Tuesday 8 July 2008
Year 2M & 2H

Workshop assistants: Alice, Katie and Tala, Y10 Archbishop Beck pupils

Working on the same theme as the other two Y2 classes, 2M and 2H began drawing their ideas for what they would do in the future

With a bit of help from Alice, one pupil creates his drawing on plastic

Fabulous patterns make the picture look as though it is coloured in

Half the class work on collage and tracing paper backgrounds

Drawings are added to the large perspex window panes

One drawing, used on tracing paper in a collage, and again on the large window pane.

Rice Lane Infants - what the rest of the school is doing

nbsg1 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:24:00 GMT

Inspired by making their own window frames, teachers in Year 1 and 2 of Rice Lane infants have got involved in the project. Year 2 are going to make their own window frames, and are including 'a window to the future' in their leaving assembly.

Year 1 have been busy and created 'Windows to a Watery World'

Here are a few examples...

Rice Lane Infants - Reception

nbsg1 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:58:00 GMT

Monday 7 July 2008, am, Class 7 & 8
Wednesday 9 July 2008, pm, Class 9

All three Reception classes took part in the project, and were helped out by Rachel, Emma and Sean, Year 10 pupils from Archbishop Beck.
Because our topic in school is ourselves, we had a think about what we would like to do in the future...

Pupils in Class 7 wanted to be a jockey, a policeman, a dalek, a submarine driver, a pilot, superman, a pirate and a Nurse
Pupils in Class 8 wanted to be artists, a dog sitter, a teacher, a vet and one boy wanted to work in the glass factory like his Dad.
Pupils in Class 9 wanted to be a dancer, a taxi driver, limousine drivers and shop keepers.

We drew our ideas on paper first

Then we traced them onto a thin sheet of plastic

We had to choose two pieces of coloured card - one for the background and one for the frame. We picked one, folded it in half, and then starting from the folded edge, we cut a big hole in the card. When we unfolded it - as if by magic, we had a window frame. We stuck our plastic onto the background and our frame over the top.

Using our drawings, we traced over them again onto the big sheets of plastic

When we held them up against the whiteboard they made really interesting shadows

The film crew from River media visited Class 7, we were asked questions about what we had done today - will we be on TV soon?

Longmoor Primary - Year 2

nbsg1 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:46:00 GMT

Thursday 3 July 2008
Longmoor Primary School
Year 2

Year 2 had designed and made some cars as part of their design technology project this term. To tie into this, we decided to create windows showing our ideas for cars of the future. We started out by drawing our ideas with pencil and paper. There were rocket powered cars...

...and flower powered cars.

We used the special paint pens to trace over our drawings onto a piece of plastic

Emma and Rachel, year 10 pupils from Archbishop Beck High school helped us out.

We used the templates to cut out our frames, and the artist, students from archbishop beck and our teachers helped us to put them together.

Longmoor Primary - Year 4 workshops

nbsg1 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:09:00 GMT

Wednesday 2 July 2008
Year 4 classes
Storybook windows

Photographers - Emma and Rachel, Archbishop Beck High School pupils

Year 4 Longmoor pupils worked on the theme of Storybooks to tie into their current Design Technology topic. We came up with ideas about new stories and tales to put into our windows. We tried giving old stories an interesting new twist for the future. We shared our ideas, and then drew them onto paper.

We traced over our drawings, and used some images from books.

With a bit of help we put the plastic sheets, backgrounds and frames together.

Here are some of the finished articles

We also added our drawings to the big sheet of plastic.

What was the best thing about the afternoon? or Pick 5 words to describe the workshop.

Redbridge High School - workshop 1

nbsg1 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:24:00 GMT

Wednesday 2 July 2008
After School Club

These photos were taken in the garden at Redbridge School during an afterschool activity session. There were several pupils from the school as well as two pupils from Archbishop Beck and staff. The garden was recently finished and the strawberries were great!!

We started our activities in the garden - taking photographs and doing some drawings. Here are some photos:

We then went back to a classroom, printed out some of our photographs and produced some more drawings.

Blessed Sacrament - Workshop 1

nbsg1 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:41:00 GMT

Tuesday 1 July 2008
Year 2A & 2G

Our ideas for the future

Year 2 were introduced to our artist, Claire, and we came up with some fabulous ideas about jobs that we would like to do in the future, and things that we would like to use. We drew our ideas out on paper, making sure that we had included lots of important details so that people would know exactly what it was.

Our classes then split into two halves. Some of us were drawing on plastic sheets with paint markers. We used our futuristic ideas along with some photographs of our class on a trip to Croxteth Hall - old photographs and new pictures. We traced over our drawings and photos to create a colourful line drawing on the plastic.

The other half of the class worked on backgrounds. They stuck down coloured paper to make a bright patterned surface.

Break and snack time - we got a chance to have a close look at Claire's drawings on plastic. They look just like the work we are going to do next.

Claire showed us how to lift up the big sheet of plastic and slide our drawings underneath,so that we could draw them onto it.

Our windows are all assembled - the background and the plastic held together with a 3D frame....

...ready to give to our gallery organisers Keira and Lewis, who laid the windows out carefully on our hall floor.

Sam and George took photographs of what we were doing, and Michael and Joe gave everybody a a tag to write down what we enjoyed about today.

Teacher Session at Blessed Sacrament Infants

nbsg1 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:49:00 GMT

Wednesday 25 June

Teachers at Blessed Sacrament Infant School tried their hand at creating their own windows, and became glamorous film stars when River Media turned up to document the process for the case study.

Rice Lane Juniors Y6H

nbsg1 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:23:00 GMT

Monday 23 June 2008
Y6H
People in Action

Photographer - Darren