Workshops of pupils from Poland

 

 Our first workshops were based on the work with wood and paper.  We involved pupils from younior hight school (in age from 14 to 17). Małgorzata Maniakowska was the teacher who leaded these classes.  

The aim was to make the work which contain artistic feature as well as functional. It refers to proffessions, which can be done by  our pupils in the future.

 

Pupils prepared following materials before beginning workshops :

-       -  collecting broken up branches in the forest and in the park which were cut to small pieces and the area of them was made smooth with the abrasive paper,

        -  buying colourful wooden beads, papier of different colour and texture,

        - collecting cardboard boxes from shops,
    - making string from tissue paper.

  

            

These classes were led in a method of workshop which means that each pupil made individual components separately and later it was combant in to one work.

The work was devided in to a few stages: composing, drawing, copying, cutting out lining, attaching. After these stages it was possible to assemble the work into the whole. Pupils chose the lecture room as a place of presentation.

Thw work is devided in two parts:

I.                   the upper part - the low  relief in the form of the rosette or flower. It fulfils the decorative function as the portal above the door  

II.                 the lower part  - first of all it is fullfilling the functional function and indirectly the decorative function.

It can replace the door in casings, net curtains and curtains in windows. It can serve as the screen or or the decoration on the wall. It can also fulfil the therapeutic function in pedagogic and psychological rooms. Our work reforce in door style which was common in the past. It often replaces door in the kitchen. Our work was changed and improved by function mentioned above.

The aims of the workshops were following::

-        developing and improving abilities which can be used in such a professions as carpenter, bookbinder, painter, paperhanger, bricklayer

-         developing the beauty, aesthetics, the accuracy and the perfectionism at pupils,
-      training ability of developing the space.

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Participants

Schools in the Comenius Project are:

v POLAND- Zespol Szkol Specjalnych

v TURKEY- Yenibosna Ilkogretim Okulu

v BULGARIA- Resource Center to support the integrated training and education of children and pupils with special educational needs - Veliko Tarnovo

v ESTONIA- Tartu Hiie Kool

v ITALY- Isiss Cicognini Rodari

v SLOVAKIA- Základná škola

v SPAIN- C. Santa Teresa

Our Project

Art & Craft As a Link Between Education and Workinglife

This project is not focusing on “Art for arts sake”! But for arts/crafts ability to train, to transform and to expand us.To learn about ourself and to get aware of own ways of acting, of expressing and of creating. Teachers in special needs' schools always are in need of new ideas, and these teachers can give each other and their pupils an extra push by exchanging these ideas. In vocational training or the preparation to it they make small pieces of craftwork according to the design of the teacher. Other teachers in other countries use other drafts and designs so they could exchange and explain this to each other on meetings, pupils can send pictures of their craftwork to each other by mail; they could even film it while they are making it. The idea is to help teachers and pupils step over language barrier and find out how their colleagues work. In this way they could learn a lot from each other including culture and language. Teachers with their pupils could communicate with others in foreign countries. On the meetings they exchange ideas and show each other certain techniques. Pupils and teachers are working together in international workshops. At the end of the project, as a final result all these work of art and craft has to be brought together in a manual full of pictures, drawings, description tips. We also plane  to organize the seminar to share the all experience with vocational teachers, art&craft teachers and parents. Besides we want to make a web page to all of European teachers showing the pedagical and educational side of exhibition and other happenings.