INSPIRATION PROJECT - CAMDEN

The inspiration project took place at the Holy Trinity and St Silas school in Camden. I worked with an artist - Nathalie Frost and Year 4 and 5. The theme of the project was Water and we wanted to use this theme to investigate Poetry, Image and Sound. The first task was to inspire the children to write some poetry. I used PTM with various watery pictures and sounds - yr 4 had one picture and one sound while Yr 5 had two contrasting pictures and sounds. The results were stunning. The next stage Nathalie worked with groups of children to create enormous vibrant paintings based on their words. I worked on investigating the sounds of water and linking these sounds to the words they had written.
The sounds and words were all mapped out and the children began to think of symbols that could represent these sounds and words.
These symbols then became the basis for composition and more huge paintings.
By the end of the week the children were performing their paintings! Reading their poems. Composing new sounds and much more.
It was a fantastic week and everyone got so much out of it. All the children were so motivated and had so much fun. One boy came up to me after one of the days and said he had had "the best day in school ....ever!"
It was amazing to think that out of poetry came so much more - the children had a real reason to write
and loved making their words shine.
I hope to be able to put up some pictures of the artwork alongside the poetry soon.
Many thanks to Annie Williams, the head teacher at the school and to Nathalie for an unforgettable week.