creative writing & visual art - write here project, revolution on paper exhibition february...
DESCRIPTION
A case study of how Mexican Revolution Exhibtion was used by the Writer-in-Residence (Peter Rumney) Gallery Learning Officer (Ruth Lewis Jones) and Lead Teacher (Joy Buttress) to explore narrative techniques in Key Stage 2 and 3TRANSCRIPT
‘Write Here’
at Mellers Primary School
Nottingham
Art and Creative Writing
Talking for Writing
Adventures
in
narrative
sequence…
First…
…a visit to see
The Tin Soldier
by Tangere Arts ,
at
Nottingham Trent University…
…working with
the writer Peter Rumney’s
Theatre Design students
then…
back in school,
preparing for our
gallery visit…
….making pictures
with our bodies…
New ways to look at
and talk about
pictures…
Finding our own
stories in art…
…and the writer
messing with our brains!…
“…you say…
……………
………I say….
……………………..”
The
“and-why-because”
game…
…finding new ways
to tell stories…
Then to the
Djanology Art Gallery…
What are these Mexican
artists trying to say to us?…
…about the world?…
Bringing the
images
to life…
“I thought it (the exhibition) was really brilliant because there were lots of stories about the Meixican people and lots of speeches and when we look at the stories I felt that I was scared because if I was in that time, I might be dead because of the war that killed their Father.
The leaflet was brilliant because it was a story about him and Mexican people. Their story was important because it was true.
Because I've seen lots in my life, because I have lots of things in my life like war and I want to learn more about them. Was it like my story or not?
The Mexican people worked hard to get their freedom to show the people what their life was like.”
Walid Year 6
New ways of
looking at…
story structure
!
!!
?
?……
Trying new ways
of writing…
(Post It Notes
for story structure)
Trying new ways
of writing…
(Writing backwards
from the end of the story)
Then…
…back in school…
working with an image
from the exhibition…
…and working with
Peter’s story
inspired by
this picture…
The Story of
Bala and Wareem…
Mapping the story
and acting it out
with Miss Heyman…
…so it becomes
our own….
Looking at
story structures again…
…playing ‘Sevens’…
…and telling stories
through
playing card
sequences…
Looking at
story structures again!…
….. writing our own versions
of Bala and Wareem
using the
Post It Notes again…
Playing
‘and-why-because’
again to help
with the detail…
Sentence ASentence B
Sentence A
Sentence B
Sentence A
Sentence B
Sentence A
Sentence B
Sentence A
Sentence B
Sentence A
Sentence B
Sentence A
Sentence B
Why? Because…
Sentence A
Sentence B
Why? Because…
1…………..
Sentence A
Sentence B
Why? Because…
1…………..
Why? Because…
Why? Because…
2…………..
3…………..
Sentence A
Sentence B
1…………..
2…………..
3…………..
Sentence A
Sentence B
1…………..
2…………..
3…………..
Sentence A
Sentence B
1…………..
2…………..3…………..
Sentence A
Sentence B
1…………..
2…………..
3…………..
Writing backwards
from the end
of the story…
Linking up with how
Miss Weyman works…
We wanted to work
with a visual artist…
Huw Feather…
Drawing the
sections of the
Bala and Wareem story…
….. as if it were shot with a TV
camera…
…and exploring
narrative sequences…
Evaluating the
project
so far…
…thinking about what
helped us to be
more confident writers,
and what didn’t…
Thinking about the whole
journey of our project
as a story
or narrative…
to help evaluate it…
Designing
TV camera shots
to help us
evaluate
the project…
A finished piece of writing…
A finished piece of writing…
developed through
visits to the art gallery and theatre,
drawing, acting,
story mapping
and kinaesthetic activities…
• Finished image
Funded by
Writing East Midlands
Lakeside Arts Centre
Nottingham Central EIP
Mellers Primary School
The Mighty Creatives
Supported by
Nottingham University
Nottingham Trent University