Creative Partnerships

The CLC used a grant from Creative Partnerships for a science based arts project entitled "From Macro to Micro". This action research project investigated the way in which observational skills are improved by a study of the natural and built environment using a coastal setting. It involved the CLC in partnership with St Margaret Clitherow's primary and St Peter's secondary schools and we employed a digital artist and a sculptor for 1 day each week to work with KS1 and KS3 pupils.

This 10 week project gave the opportunity for reception children to work in partnership with older pupils and to manipulate digital images using sophisticated methods. The sculptor facilitated the development of a model bay which incorporated elements of both the real environment and its digital representations. To provide source material for their digital manipulation and model bay work, the pupils with the artists and 2 members of staff from the CLC went to Saltburn on a very cold, wet and windy day at the beginning of March 2005. The weather meant that the day trip turned into a morning adventure. However valuable work was still undertaken in gathering source material and in developing the working relationships between the KS1 and KS3 pupils. The pupils concentrated on the differences in the cliff structures, the way the rocks and pebbles were distributed on the beach and how the sea interacted with the sand and other items found on the beach.

Here are a few images of the artefacts produced by the pupils:

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