Hunting for Fairy Tales of the Yeti.
Workshop One
Before the Hunt: The Age of Innocence.
Hylton Red House and Old Hall Drive Primary Schools (one hour).
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Chapter |
Artistic vision |
Content |
Other |
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Who am I |
2D |
Fairy Tales Cultural context The creature Other Yeti’s Rare |
What are we hunting for? Questions
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Thing |
Randomisation and spontaneity |
Word play Clearing |
Very fast 10 seconds |
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Hear And here |
Awareness and linguistics |
Word play Centring |
Fast 20 seconds |
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Fairy-tale character |
2D Visual memory |
Memories of existing fairy-tale characters |
Cultural history |
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Eyes wide shut |
Internal image recall |
Drawing with eyes closed |
Brief timed count down. Retention for 6 months |
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The project Website. The bare bones |
Gaining skills |
Tour of site and encourage creative use of computer access outside school |
Testing results of teacher and schools Computer technology team training |
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See by the sea |
Linguistics |
Imagination |
40 seconds |
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Smell |
Imagination |
Time travel 10 minutes, 10 years to 1000 years |
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Set up homework |
Research, documentation and journalism |
To record student’s own family fairy tales. |
Encourage creative use of computer access outside school |
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Map |
Design graphics communication |
Planning |
Compass Gift exchange Pathways |
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Eyes wide shut |
Internal image recall |
Drawing with eyes closed |
Retention from 60 minutes |
Materials: coloured marker pens, A3 paper and blank story books.
Extra information to convey: Yeti Books presented by Seven Stories at teachers CPD event.
Requests: Book packs to be read through duration of project
Recording: Teachers to take photos and upload to web-site team
Evaluation: class discussion and artist to de-brief team leaders.