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Doors Get Children Thinking

10/17/2018

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Doors 4 Thought at St Martin's C of E

Art in schools
Gary from RAW with Maya and Milan
For a week, beginning on Monday 1st October 2018 we worked with all the pupils at St Martin’s C of E School in Tipton to create large scale artwork with a difference.
The aim of the ‘Doors For Thought’ project was to decorate 17 of the classroom doors with the key values of the school.
​Each year group had 2 doors to decorate, one for their own classroom and one for another internal door in the school. Each door has it’s own ‘theme’ based on 17 of the school values or ‘character strengths’ such as ‘respect’; ‘humility’ and ‘creativity’. 

Painting and drawing sessions in schools
Gary with some of the finished door canvasses
Creative workshops
Doors For Thought branding
​The artwork was  designed to look like comic book art and each door resembles a comic book cover with vibrant colours and the class theme word as the title.  
​We delivered a very short art history about key Pop Art exponents Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
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engaging parents in art
Alex and parent helpers get busy with PVA!
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It’s wasn't only the pupils that took the making activities. Parents and staff were also invited to get creative and draw a picture or write a sentence about what the particular theme meant to them and staff decorated their own staffroom door, along the theme of ‘Wisdom’.

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 We have been delighted that the children were so enthusiastic about this project.  It is a unique way to represent the values of St Martin’s and engage learners with art activity.” Alex Vann, Founder of RAW
BSL in arts
Sign language integrated on to the doors
Fingerspelling
Do you know what this says?
BSL in schools
Gary delivering BSL training
​British Sign Language (BSL) was also integrated into the art sessions which were held in the main hall of the school. A member of RAW, Gary O’Dowd, is profoundly Deaf and uses BSL to communicate. BSL translations of the theme words are printed onto the doors both as signs and as fingerspelt words.

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The Staffroom: BEFORE
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The Staffroom: AFTER
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Sample Classroom doors
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    Alex Vann is an all round creative. He formed RAW in 1997 out of a University project and restarted it in 2018 after working as a graphic designer for agencies and in-house for many years.

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