Creating more artwork.

Today we had a very busy time with the students creating more artwork.
We collaged and painted puppets and backgrounds, made more templates for our sand animation and did a little bit of filming.

Sanjidah - "Today we were designing a victorian school classroom"

Mohamed - "I helped draw the windows for Big Ben"

Tracey - " Today we have been learning how to animate with sand"

Masuma "We were cutting bits of newspaper and collaging them on card to make a pavement"

Starting artwork and planning

Today the students began creating puppets of themselves and backgrounds for the animation.

Rashadul and Labib wrote out the different sections for the film.
So far we have....
Harry Gosling the man
The school logo
Building of the school and the new extension
Centenary day
...and many sub-sections.

Labib - "Today we made 2d puppets for the animation. It was quite hard making the 2d puppet, but we all had lots of fun"

Maryam - "We are mixing colours to paint some puppets"

Rafi - "I'm so lucky"

In the afternoon we did a sand animation test ..........

Adila - "Making a model of a picture we drew yesterday was very exciting and fiddly"

Sanjidah - "It was quite hard trying to join the boats together. 

We will use them like a cookie cutter onto wet sand"

Introduction to animation.

John and Wendy met and worked with thirty-six students from across the school today to begin a ten day animation project to celebrate the centenary of Harry Gosling School.
The children did some great work today, watching animations, making zoetrope strips and flip books, brainstorming ideas about their school, creating storyboards and learning about the man Harry Gosling.

Here are some quotes from the children about how the day went :-

Kareena - "Today we made strips for the Zoetrope"

Nuzhat - "Alhena's coloured balls looked like a rainbow when it spun around"

Alhena - "We drawed a storyboard of the Centenary fete that happened at our school"

Farhana- "We watched an animation made from sand which was really funny"

Mehreen - We watched an animation called a Colour box and discussed different animations."

"We had lots of fun"

Thajkera - "We did a brainstorm about what we did at the Centenary Day Celebrations"

Mehreen - "I enjoyed making the storyboards because it reminds me of when our old headteacher used to work here. My story was about her Visiting on Centenary Day"

Maryam " We tried to draw a face with our eyes closed"

Adila - "We saw how an animation was made"

Mohamed - "We watched an animation of a blackbird called La Merle"