Session 2 started with a few communication problems , the school internet connection was down and we were expecting an engineer out to fix it so………problem…. How would we communicate with Andrew?

With some creative thinking we were able to pair my iphone with my ipad and then connect with Andrew , that worked for a bit …. And then we had to rely just on the face time on my iphone, this actually brought unexpected benefits I was able to use the camera to let Andrew see each child’s work from different angles.

And so to work… Andrew chatted with the children about the focus of the project Change and Duration , we talked about the meaning of the word duration and  how we were going to explore the topic through our project .

The children started this session with the challenge of making sculptures of themselves with clay. Though they have all had experience of working with clay,they had to tackle lots of different technical problems. Their figures had to stand  so a firm base was needed,they had to think of the weight distribution of the figure and the strength of the limbs.As these were portraits they had to include details  such as their facial features , hair, details on their clothing and shoes.it was interesting to see how they overcame these challenges to produce their sculptures.

As the focus is change and duration the sculptures are going to be placed outside and the children will document the changes over the duration of the project.