Olympic Banners in Darley Park
We worked with 13 schools to create Olympic figure banners that were displayed in Darley Park. Thank you to all the schools involved.
Derby Moor, West Park, Landau Forte, Merrill, Arboretum, Reigate, Bemrose, Gayton, Village, St James Federation, Murray Park, Lakeside, and Alvaston Juniors.
Here are a selection below.
Olympic Sculptures in the Orangery
Q. How do you transport 6 life sized Olympic "athletes"?
A. In a Berlingo of course.
Olympic Figures in the Arboretum Park
On Friday we went to St. James Primary and managed to persuade all 6 Olympic figures to get in the back of Jenny's car for a short trip along to the Orangery on the Arboretum Park.
It was a very hot afternoon as we cleared the space for them and put them in an elevated place in front of the windows for all the park users to see.It is a well timed display for the start of the Olympics and the school holidays.
They have caused a lot of interest and debate amongst the passers by.
In the last few weeks we completed an epic project working with every child in the St James Federation of schools.
We made 6 x Yr 5 sized Olympian figures depicting sports suggested by the children.
We had a terrific time and the children worked very hard. It felt very strange not turning up at the school on the Monday morning.
Here are 2 of the figures........and no none of the children are inside.
Today is the 1st day of the Community Torch Relay.
For 2 weeks before half term we worked with 30 schools at Derby Silk Mill Museum, making the basic torch structure and working on ideas .......then they went away and put the finishing touches to their own unique torch.
We haven't seen the results until now
They are FABULOUS
Look at Derwent Community School's torch, we love the figures around the bottom and wonderful flames on the top.
Well done!!!
Photograph source on twitter #communitytorchrelay@DerbyCitySSP
We ran some mini Olympic torch making workshops at Derby Moor Community Sports College the other week with pupils from
6 of their feeder schools attending.
Working in groups of 3 they had 1hr and 40 minutes to make a torch and I think you will agree looking at the photos below they all did a very good job too :)
Also at some of the workshops we had sporting champions dropping in to chat to the children.
We managed to photograph Leon Baptiste who had brought his Gold Medal - won in the 200metres at the 2010 Commonwealth games in Delhi. He spent a long time chatting to all the children and even let some of them try the medal on which was really amazing.
Thanks Leon I think we all voted you a real champion!!
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