Week 4 Self-portraits and Sewing!

The session began with Andrew asking the pupils to draw themselves. He encouraged the pupils to think about their features carefully and produce an image of themselves. Vanessa Patton had joined us for part of this session and she talked to the pupils about proportion and size. The pupils drew their portraits using pastels. Andrew then explained that the pupils were going to draw the portrait onto a T-shirt. They would then sew over the top of the drawing using a running stitch. For some of the pupils this was a new experience as they hadn’t sewed anything before! The time passed by very quickly as the pupils worked on their sewing. The pupils will be able to add to their T-shirts throughout the following week. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed this week’s activities.

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Virtually There – Week 2

Friday 18th in Strandtown PS Superhero Day to celebrate our Power for Good anti bullying week. Pupils and staff dressed up as supeheros for the day. The pupils worked in groups to create a story based on Strandtown PS involving a hero. There was great excitement as the stories came together. The pupils told their story to Andrew. Each pupil drew a part of their story which will be put together in a concertina arrangement. 2 stories will be in each 3D construction and the 2 stories can be viewed together. This will be completed before Week 3. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed the session and commented positively afterwards.  Looking forward to Week 3!

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Getting Started!

Last Friday Room 23 linked up with Andrew Livingstone for their first Virtually There session! A great discussion took place about what an artist does. The pupils worked out the space from pupil to pupil with cord. In total we needed 55m! This equates to 2 million metres to reach Andrew’s studio from Room 23! The pupils drew memories of the furthest place they had visited. A text message recorded what had been learnt! A great start!

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