Conor's origami workshop!

As part of Conor's work experience he delivered his own origami workshop to local children at our after school club. They made flying cranes, cats and dogs, t-shirts and goldfish!

Cossington 'respect' workshop

On Monday class 4 at Cossington Primary took part in a small workshop on the principle of respect. As well as a graffiti wall, they embroidered friendship bands with their own slogans, names or words. They did an incredible job in only an hour, with one girl making four bands!

Quentin Birds at Redlands

Yesterday, me and Conor, my work experience placement for Rawlins' year 10 work experience week, put up the Quentin Blake inspired beaded birds, made over the past few weeks with children at Redlands Primary school in Sileby. We wired them to the new fences near the entrance to be enjoyed by pupils, staff and parents alike. Comments included "wow", "that's awesome" and "aw, that's really nice!", making our chilly afternoon well worth it!

Sileby School's Blake Birds are flying!

After several bead threading sessions with chilldren aged from 4 to 11, we have finally started transformming the raw material (pictured below) into Quentin Blake syle birds (loosley based on his Roly-Poly Bird and the cockatoos). On Friday, these birds and more will be fixed onto the new fences at Redlands Primary School, Sileby, for all to see.

SpArC Day at ALP- T-shirt printing

Dave Briggs of Vanilla Galleries (www.vanillagalleries.com) came to ALP for the day too to run a T-shirt screen printing workshop. Everyone managed to make a really professional T-shirt to wear...it was so impressive! Even staff got really into it, making some fabulous designs!

SpArC Day at ALP- caricatures

In the other room (yesterday at ALP- see last post) I ran a caricature workshop throughout the day. The participants were hesitatnt at first but soon realised what a laugh it was and queued up to be next. A few had a go themselves and drew staff as well as famous faces!

SpArC Day at ALP- GRAFFITI

Dan Tyler of North Side Designz, (find them on facebook or contact me for more information) ran an amazing hands-on workshop for the members of ALP at Rawlins (an alternative curriculum provision). All students had the chance to contribute to three large boards which will be permanently displayed on site.

Animated athletes for Cossington's Olympics focus

Using the good old split pins method of animating images on thin card, we had lots of fun on Monday giving our characters an Olympic theme.