Godinton Primary School Arts’ leaders Inspire Project – Turner Contemporary

Godinton Primary SchoolArts’ leaders

Inspire Project – Turner Contemporary

Session One – Visit to Turner Contemporary, Margate…

Workshops with the navigators

Exploring self-

portraiture

Exploring the gallery exhibitions…

Session Two – Exploring the idea of ‘self’ with poet Dean Atta…

Writing poems about

ourselves

Inspired by the Tim Burton poem…

Watch the animation on YouTube

We drew our own pictures of Vincent

inspired by the poem.

We took photos of ourselves in school uniform…

In poses which reflected our personality

…and took selfies which expressed more of our individuality.

We brought in objects which were precious to us and which told a story about each of us…

We made up dance moves which reflected our personalities…

Session Three – Working with Visual Artist Lucy

We explored the concept of self and personality.

We filmed and photographed children and adults in our school, inviting them to talk about or show us who they are…

We also took selfies of ourselves in different

poses.

Session Four – Working with our partner school Bethersden Primary…

We invited some children from Bethersden Primary School to join us on a visit to Turner Contemporary. We started off at Godinton by leading them in some of the activities we had

completed with Lucy and Dean and then lead them around the gallery.

We explored the ‘Self’ exhibition and enjoyed looking at the self portraits.

We enjoyed dressing up too!

Since then we have put together a montage of all the things we have investigated about self image. We hope that this will

inspire other people to consider who they are.

Have a look at the film we have made.

Final Presentation• Some of our group

visited Folkestone Quarterhouse to find out what other schools had done as their ‘Inspire’ project.

• We too part in some workshops, learnt origami and made pledges that we would help support the Arts in Kent.

Our film was also shown at the Turner Gallery

Hopefully the Inspire project will continue again next year so that some of you may have a chance

to join in too.