art group presentation 20.6.07

Today the art group presented their work to the school at assembly, telling them about the site visits & showing their photos & drawings. At the end they gave out the flyers for this blog so that other children could see all the things we’ve been doing..

site visit pm workshop 6.6.07

In the afternoon we did drawings about the morning site visit & made a list of things we remembered. The drawings will be used in a presentation by the art group to the school on June 20th. Caleb took this pic of a crane & then drew it from memory

This one is by Mikael..

you can see everyones drawings here

this is part of Megan’s really big picture of Jason the site manager, he always takes lots of time with us to tell us about the site & answer our questions.

site visit 6.6.07

This time Roz came on site with us & we had 3 more cameras so everyone enjoyed taking photos..

you can see all the art groups photos here

Before we looked round the site we talked about the building using eco materials & went through a list of interesting points that Tom the architect had sent. eco-credentials.doc

April 25th site visit – more pics and recordings

for more site visit pics see here

listen here to sounds from the Building Site

April 25th site visit with the ‘art group’

well, more & more the ‘art group’ are the lucky ones going on site to see their new school in progress.

Since the March visit lots had been done. The roof looks more ready – it will be planted with sedum at some point. Last time Mick showed us the materials for insulating and for covering the roof ready for planting.

This time we thought about materials more & even took some away with us..

some of the group, took photos.. more of their pics are here

like this one of the building

and lovely portraits taken mainly by Harley (children’s art group) of the guys working.. more here

Jason the site manager & James (the teacher)..

March 28th site visit with artists..

Hannah Cox & gHOSTbOY will be doing some sessions with children from Barton Hill primary school.

gHOSTbOY already grafittied the hoardings before the project started…

Julian guided us through the site, here he’s looking at the children’s drawings from the last visit.

- great site visit as we went up on the roof & spent ages chatting to everyone.

There’s a buzz on site, everyone is really informed about the ecological / sustainable intent and enjoying working with natural materials. there’s more pics of the building here

march 21st site visit – more pics

the art group (pic by Sarah Winch)

the elevated platform

looking at the architectural plan..

Listen to
Salman and Sayed talk about the heating

Jason the site manager by Syed

listen here to
“Jason’s Song”

Alex’s crane drawing..

we were lucky to be on the roof when the crane was being used to lift a partition wall

our first site visit – March 21st

12 children togged up in hard hats, hi-vis jackets & boots get to see their new school under construction. With clipboards in hand we’re thinking about how buildings get made from architects plans..