Presentation November 2010

1. Our experience of
Take One Picture :
Milbourne Lodge Prep School
Tiggy Bawden (Art) /Sybil Cary (ICT)

2. Take One Picture 2010
Introduction to our school…
• 150 pupils (Boys/Girls)
• 4 to 13 yrs(Pre Prep to Yr 8)
• Wide catchment area
• This year we have
submitted 13 projects
involving the whole school
• Art and ICT lessons –
Summer Term – with broad
cross curricular links
Milbourne Lodge, Esher, Surrey

3. Tobias and the Angel :
by the workshop of Verrocchio
©Picture courtesy of
the National Gallery

4. Our Journey….
• Began last November with the Teachers’
Training Day in this theatre.
• Research and investigation of the topic using -
‘Teachers’ Notes’ handout
• Wanted to look at the painting laterally rather
than literally
• Central theme of the story – blindness – chose
to focus on visual impairment

5. First steps..
• We (as teachers)spent many weeks exploring our
theme; and learning from many organisations including
RNIB (library, shop and online resources)
SA-VI (local Surrey Association for the Visually
Impaired)
ClearVision and Talking Books (borrowed tactile books
to show our pupils)
Talked to/emailed as many organisations as possible to
gain a broad understanding of the subject

6. Assembled a vast array of materials
• Borrowed
• Donated
• Purchased
Pupils experienced VI Goggles, borrowed from a local
organisation

7. Joint Introduction…
• 40 min. Introduction
• Storyboarding /Brainstorming
• A3 Flip Charts
Encouraged pupils to document their own
thoughts, approaches and methods . We
were guiding them towards a pre-determined
end : but they were free to make changes
along the way

8. School Assembly - SAVI
Carole Hunt from SA-VI with Milbourne Lodge Pupils

9. National Gallery Trip
• Arranged with Education Dept
• Guided tour of the Gallery – focused on
‘Tobias and the Angel’ and our theme of visual
impairment.
• Lecture /Practical Examples : how the National
Gallery makes works accessible to blind and
visually impaired visitors

10. THE PROJECTS THEMSELVES
All pupils in the school worked on these projects

11. Mixture of individual ....

12. and group projects

13. Cross-curricular approach
• Worked hard to create a seamless cross-curricular
approach, although taught exclusively during Art
and ICT lessons have included links to include:
History
Drama
PSHE
DT
English
RE
Geography
Classics

14. Tactile Fish Collages
Pre Prep 1 (Age 4 to 5). Tactile fish collages.

15. Myriorama
Year 3 – Myriorama or Endless Landscape. Wrote and recorded their
own voices telling the story of Tobias and the Angel

16. Myriorama (Endless Landscape)
Year 3 -Created using a slideshow in iPhoto on the iMac

17. Shadow Play
Year 4 – the entire group directed and acted this play

18. Shadow Play
Year 4

19. MegaBlocks Castle - filming
Year 4 – Castles : one giant Mega Castle filmed as a stop-motion
animation (MacBooks )

20. Mega Castle
Year 4 - MegaBloks Castle

21. Sugar Cube model castles
Year 4 – Castles : built from sugar cubes as individual projects

22. Tactile Book
Year 5
We have brought the book with us today if you would like to see it after this session!

23. Preparing the pages of the tactile book
Year 5 – Whole class worked together to build a tactile book including
Braille, fabric pages and sound pads

24. This really is RAPHAEL making his own page of the book!

25. Inside Page of the Tactile Book
Braille overlay, Sans Serif text printed on fabric sheet, sound pad (RH
Corner of page) and bird – created using washable, durable and ‘child—
friendly’ materials

26. Huge Tactile Painting of Tobias and the Angel
Year 5. ( Actual size approximately 1metre x 1.5 metres )

27. Raphael Speaks
Year 6 – using facial animation software pupils added their voices and
animated the face of Raphael from the painting

28. Raphael Speaks
Year 6

29. Translations of sections of the painting
Year 6 - some pupils created tactile diagrams and audio descriptions of
Tobias and the Angel. Recorded their own voices onto MP3 players to
‘walk through’ the translation they had created (printed on ‘swell’ paper)

30. Tactile Canvases
Year 6 –individual pieces

31. Tactile Canvases
Year 6 – individual pieces

32. Fortune Tellers
Year 6- created using Photoshop and printed and then enlarged to A3
with questions relating to the painting and the story behind the picture

33. Individual abstract canvases
Year 7 - using the colours from the painting

34. Braille Signs
Year 7 - including BSS (Bonnington System Symbols) used with
permission of the author. Braille created using a Braille ‘dymo’ labeller

35. Board Game – the Adventures of Tobias and the Angel
Year 7 – whole class project

36. Pupils, with varying degrees of visual impairment, visited Milbourne
Lodge this week to test our projects and discuss them with our pupils

37. This was hugely valuable – as it allowed pupils to see their projects being
used by children of their own age : but with a visual impairment

38. St. Stephen’s School, Godstone
The feedback gained from this visit was invaluable – for pupils and staff

39. Why Take One Picture ?
• Easily adapted to any age group or ability
• Wonderful cross-curricular opportunities
• Encourages pupils to research and work
independently
• Links to the real world

40. www.vimeo.com/channels/mlcreative
www.flickr.com/photos/mlcreative
Take One Picture submission. 2010
Bawden/Cary