We decided to give the whole day over to drawing, right throughout the school. The centrepiece of the day was the plan to cover the entire School Hall in drawings.
Children were involved in Artistic endeavours in their own classes throughout the day. There was Manga-style cartoon drawing and self-portraits, there were large collaborative works, paintings... We hired a graffiti artist to work with a group of older children on an outdoor project... and we covered the School Hall in drawings.
At the end of the day, we invited our community to view our school and our Hall as an Art Installation. We actually sold artworks from around school... including squares cut from our Hall display.
The film begins with the Assembly at the start of the school day. Throughout the day, each class visited and spent around 45 minutes 'drawing the Hall'.
The video camera was left static in one corner of the Hall recording the day. An area of wall can be seen where a digital projector was projecting an image. There were, in fact, three digital projector images displayed around the space for children to engage with, if they chose. The idea of having those available for children to work into came out of a prior project called Active Learning Drawing... the outcomes from which were distributed to schools nationally.
Verbal communication, negotiation... and deep artistic thinking... is prompted when children collaborate on artistic projects and when they are invited to re-interpret the works of other artists.
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