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Woodhenge,
Hook Junior School, Hook, Hampshire |
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Working with every class in each year
group (aged 7 to 11 years old and about 400 children in
total) we discussed the school’s ‘Values’,
year 3 worked on drawings to express ‘Responsibility’
and ‘Respect’, year 4, ‘Inclusion’
and ‘Equality’, then we talked about ‘Outcomes’
with year 5, ‘Lifelong learning’ and ‘Inner
confidence’ and year 6, ‘Personal fulfilment’
and ‘Responsible citizens’.
Many interesting issues were brought up and discussed
as a group. We then created drawings to try and symbolise
these abstract concepts, some incorporating text within
the design.
This
led on to another theme, to draw their idea of what the sculptural
installation could look like, with the only restrictions being
that there was one big thing in the middle and 13 smaller things
around it, this freedom sparked off an amazing range of ideas!
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The
final sculptural installation was sited in the ‘wild garden’
by the storytelling area, it consisted of a ‘Woodhenge’
of 13 carved waney edge Oak and Chesnut slabs each measuring about
1.5m tall in two concentric circles and about 7m across, in the
centre stands a 3m tall cedar obelisk which has been carved by
the children and reads Child,centred, learning, Hook junior school. |
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