Brittany the artist

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Reflection and wrap up

Student	Brittany and classmates	Date	19 August 2008
Topic	Visual arts, English, technology	Observer	Libby (teacher) Helen (arts and EfS advisor) Rob (cameraman)

Resources

A collection of collaborative and individual work completed over a four- month period

How we created opportunities for learning

Brittany will be part of ongoing discussion and decision-making about the display of the finished works.
She will be able to recall the journey and the techniques we used in the works.
She will continue to think of herself as an artist and request opportunities to work with paint both at home and at school.

Learning story

Brittany has been part of our art project from the time of the camp in term one (the motivation for our project) to the end of term three, when we hung our collection in the school hall. She began with a reluctance to engage with any challenging textures and ended with the confidence to fully engage in all aspects of paint, ink, and dye. The reward she got from doing the work and the feedback from classmates and family sustained her interest and enthusiasm. She went from strength to strength in her passion for painting and doing the whole thing herself. She could tell me which bird stencils looked good beside each other. She was able to say where to place the large canvas panels and the strips tacked together. She helped when we were deciding the order in which to put our painted calico pieces.

The discussion and talk around the subject that Brittany felt so strongly about, and the fact that she was able to talk while she was working and discuss her work and that of her classmates, may have been a contributing factor in her spoken language scores improving by two years during the five months she was involved in the project. Her recall and retention of techniques that she had learned have remained with her. When we view the work, she will talk about her choice of colour and the thread she used in the sewing on her work. She also remembers the works of her classmates and was able to identify the work of Lucas and Damon by observation.

Brittany saw the park ranger while shopping in her local town with her family. She talked to him and remembered him after a considerable length of time.

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