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First of three class collaborations, along with botanical journal.

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All are completed.
Students although initally were hard to settle and to focus on work as they had never done a long term project in secondary art. They slowly made it obvious they were becoming  engrossed and wanting to do the best with their sieve.

The biggest issue at the early stages was that the students could not thread a needle. So more large darning needles had to be bought, the bigger the better and every morning I would thread all that needles to be threaded so that students could get started and make progress and not have to wait on me. The students got better at it and there was less of an issue as the weeks went on.

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The start of this scheme had a few bumps on the road. Nine of the students had SEN issues and overall the class was hyper. There was no room for exploration, more demonstration and key tasks given to certain groups. This created a workshop approached for each table. This worked better for this group, producing a variety of different textured leaves and shrubs, along with Student 'R's favourite 'mushrooms' which appeared in the school grounds halfway through the scheme. So this along with horsechesnuts and their cases were also produced.

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Above are samples of boards completed. There are also a lovely selection of painting studies, which were shown last time.
I gave a painting demonstration on my easel as it was the best way to demonstrate for the middle of the room. I think it also helped get into the mood of being the artist and painting in an expressionist style.

Positive and negative shape were important, being aware of a monochromatic approach with application. different approaches and techniques were used by different students and this was developed as I went around. This helped get over the intial painting block and allowed each student to develope there own approach.

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Sample of one Botanical Journal with its selection of project pages.

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Selection from Thursday group.

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Thursday group has been difficult as I hardly saw them and when i did there was a high absenteeism. Limited amount done with group.

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Overall I would have like to have had this group for an extra session in the week, particularly to push further the journal. As I had also to explore collaboration and work on those projects, it took away from my journal. But saying that what we have produced a journal of interest, but the perfectionist in me, would really like to have explored texture and the personalising of it more.