The mist stayed with us throughout the morning at Appleshaw St Peter’s Primary School. With a similar range of materials and the same introduction as the other four schools, its really interesting for Becky and I to see how the children respond.
Appleshaw has lovely wooded grounds with quite a few Ash Trees, as well as a few other species. After introducing ourselves, the project partners, and our plans for the year ahead (including the Ash Tree Stream exhibition at Chapel Arts Studios at the end of the Summer Term next year), we took the children outside.
There was quite a lot of work that used words today, with several poems developing out of our request to the group to pay attention to their senses.
The thick frost on the ground, frozen spider webs hanging from bushes, and the pale mist filling the spaces between the trees and across the…
View original post 216 more words
James Aldridge - Art, Ecology and Learning 