When you are on a creative journey you are using information, techniques and materials in new ways a lot of the time. This way of […]

Easter Holidays. Now is our time during the school holidays to take stock of where we are and the work we’ve gathered from all he […]

Today we collected the plaster panels from the school. Two panels were beginning to harden and the other two  were still ‘soapy’. We used two […]

The first three bronze fish moulds have been poured and were ready to be opened. Sixth class gathered around as three volunteers hammered open the […]

Panel inspired by ‘mould and cast’ fossils. Today third and fourth classes worked on a clay panel, which we then cast in plaster. This panel […]

Oldhamia radiata. Thomas Oldham discovered fossils of radiating fans shaped impressions on Bray Head in 1840 when he was director of the Geological Survey. These […]

Sixth class have each made a fish in wax. We have made clay moulds of these fish and sent them to the foundry to be […]

We had a wonderful day pit firing the clay work made by fifth class. We began at 9.15am and during the day every class visited […]

  Tomorrow, Wednesday 18th March is looking good for our on- site pit firing of the fifth class’s work. Here we are on the beach […]

The museum cabinet is very old and shows its own traces of use over the years. It once housed stuffed birds or animals in the […]