The Island Project: Week 3
Workshop leaders: 2
Participants: 20 - 30
Location: Classroom
Duration: 2 hour
In this session, the children examine a series of rights and choose which they would employ or disregard in the construction of their own island community.
The mask making part of this session uses masks from around the world to look at how we express emotions through our faces and our art. This furthers the dialogue of emotional literacy and cultural inheritance initiated in the earlier sessions. The children then make their own masks which reflect their feelings and the emotions discussed.
This session meets Key Stage 2 Teaching Requirements in the following ways:
Citizenship, Taking Part
Enabling children to make a decision and vote on an issue; to recognise that every vote counts towards the outcome of the debate; to understand how democratic decisions are taken and recognise the importance of participation and communication skills in this.
Citizenship, Choices
Enabling children to identify rights and responsibilities to consider when making decisions; discuss their opinions with others and explain their choices; appreciate the responsibilities involved in making choices; to know the choices open to them in relation to the decisions they make, eg, relating to the environment, money, food. Exercise and play; to make real and informed choices in relation to specific areas, eg, play or money; to recognise that their choices affect themselves, others and the environment.
Citizenship, Children’s Rights, Human Rights
Enabling children to learn the difference between wants, needs and rights; to know that all children have the same basic needs and rights, and can describe them; to know that rights come with responsibilities; to show an awareness of the rights of others and their responsibility to uphold those rights; to use their skills of participation and responsible action.
Art and Design
Enabling children to record from experience and imagination, to select and record from first-hand observation and to explore ideas for different purposes; to investigate and combine visual and tactile qualities of materials and process and to match these to qualities to the purposes of their work; to use a variety of methods and approaches to communicate observations, ideas and feelings, and how to make and design images and artifacts; to use visual and tactile elements, including colour, pattern and texture, line and tone, shape, form and space and how these elements can be combined and organized for different purposes; to employ the materials and processes used in art, craft and design and recognize how these can be matched to ideas and intentions.
Design and Technology
Enabling children to explore the sensory qualities of materials and how to use materials and process; to measure, mark out, cut and shape a range of materials and assemble, join and combine components and materials accurately.