Ideas and work created

Who created the ideas and work?

• Residents of the Anglia Estate
• Children from Pot Kiln Primary School
• Children from Wells Hall Primary School
• Students from Great Cornard Upper School
• Students from Great Cornard Middle School

What did they do?

They talked to Les about their own ideas

Residents old and new talked to Les about their experiences living on the estate. Original residents talked about what it was like to move there when the houses were first built.

They created their own design ideas for the space

Students and school children worked with Les to see what it is like to be an artist working on a project like this by creating their own designs for the space and then discussing incorporating the needs and ideas of the local community.

Images of plans created by the students (PDF, 187Kb)

They created an exchange of messages and information from the question ‘What is important’?

Great Cornard Upper and Middle school along with children from Pot Kiln and Wells Hall Primary Schools created an exchange of postcards.

• The postcards were used by them to write or draw images of what is important to them

Images of postcards 1 (PDF, 127Kb)

Images of postcards 2 (PDF, 118Kb)

They created PowerPoint presentations

Students from Great Cornard Upper and Middle Schools created and designed their own Powerpoint presentations on what is important to them.

They mapped out the pathways with flags and their designs

Children from the Anglia Estate created their own artworks and mapped out the pathways on a series of open days in April.

Images of artworks created by children in Great Cornard as part of the project (PDF, 228Kb)

Images of children mapping out the pathways (PDF, 77Kb)