Gifted & Talented students keep busy over half term
Thirty Gifted & Talented students from Islington’s secondary schools took part
in a four-day project, ‘The hitch-hiker’s guide to the environment’, over half
term to strengthen their power of imagination and creative thought. The
project aimed to bridge the gap between the arts and science, and to give the
students the means and methods to integrate these two strands of study, which
are often seen as diametrically opposed.
The students were led by artists who used different combinations of creative
arts methodologies, incorporating a mixture of scientific content into
writing, visual art (e.g. mask-making, 3D work, drawing and painting), drama
and storytelling.
The project involved a day visit to Freight Liners City Farm in Islington
where students planted seeds and learnt about soil and plant nutrients. On
Thursday 27 October the project culminated with the students giving a final
presentation to parents, sharing the work they produced during the project.
Each student received a certificate of achievement for successfully completing
the course.
The project was run by CEA@Islington’s Gifted & Talented Team and East-Side
Educational Trust.
Maria Dang, a pupil at Mount Carmel said: "This was an excellent course that
taught me lots of new technical vocabulary. The activities were really
interesting and enabled me to work with people from other schools. I think my
confidence has increased and I have learnt lots of things I did not know
before. I did not realise that aspects of Art and Science could be so closely
linked."
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