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Community Development Project 2018

During the development project you learn a lot of abilities, including many skills such as: teamwork, responsibility and social assistances. Throughout the project, we got to work with some truly talented year 6 painters. This project give us as older students a way to get to get to know the year 6s, who are coming up in September.

In the project for this year, we painted many famous figures for our learning departments at the school. People such as Marie Curie who will be put on a wall in the science department for her work in physics, research into radioactivity and discovering radium and polonium. Sir David Attenborough for his knight hood in correlation with his contribution to wild life. Also with ‘Blue Planet’ and ‘Planet Earth’. He will be displayed on the walls of the geography department. Other famous faces the year 6s and Brookfield students painted included: Sir Winston Churchill, who will be put on the walls of the history department for his heroic work in the second World War and Jane Austen, who will be draped on the walls of the English department for her books that are notable for their wittiness and social remark. Finally, Alan Turing, who managed to crack the German’s enigma code in World War II and is now known today as the father of modern computing. He will be hung up in the Maths department.

These renowned figures were painted onto large boards and will be preserved to last over 10 years. This will mean that the year 6s who helped with the development project will be able to see the amazing work that they helped with when they come to this school for the next 5 years.

Helping with the community project, personally, gave me a sense of achievement and respect for the upcoming year 7s. Other Brookfield students and I had so much fun working with the local schools. These boards will last a long time and every single one has a special purpose; every single one has a story and can teach you something. These boards are truly amazing. Working in D2 with the year 4-6s and other Brookfield students was a great experience. We had a real sense of accomplishment and triumph. Other Brookfield students that have contributed to the community project for the school have said that they felt as though they had done some good for our school and that we are looking forward to the murals being on the walls of our school.

Truthfully, we all enjoyed working with the local schools and can’t wait until they can feel the sense of achievement and wellbeing as we did painting the murals with them. From this, we learnt the importance of caring and giving back to our school and community.

We hope that local schools who took part in this project had as much fun as we did on the community development project. We hope that they take part in the project again as they were amazing in participating with their schools. It has been an honour working with them and seeing the teamwork that came about. This project gave us, as Brookfield students, a new set of skills and responsibility. The murals look spectacular and will be around for a long time; Brookfield students and I are appreciative to have taken part in this opportunity to give back to our school.

I’ve really enjoyed painting the whole day.

I’ve learnt how to ‘point’ a brush to get a sharp point (you twist it). Today has just been amazing!

I’ve enjoyed working with the Brookfield girls – they showed me how to do the masking tape trick for painting straight lines.

It’s been really fun painting and learning new things like resting on my pinkie!

I love acrylics. You can just repaint it if you make a mistake.

I really enjoyed coming to Brookfield for the Art day. The best part of today was painting Sir Winston Churchill. It has given me the confidence to meet more people that are from different schools to me. I can’t wait to go to Brookfield!

I really enjoyed the Art day at Brookfield. I enjoyed putting all the detail on our painting. It looked so lifelike. I also enjoyed meeting all the year 10s. It has made me feel more confident to meet lots of new people next year.

I really enjoyed today because it gave me a feel of what Brookfield’s Art Department is like. My favourite part of today was the painting. I’m really looking forward to coming to Brookfield in September. I can’t wait to learn more about the Art Department.

I have really enjoyed this opportunity to come to Brookfield and paint the murals. I look forward to coming to Brookfield in September. Thank you again for this opportunity.

I really enjoyed this art mural day at Brookfield with the year 10s. My favourite part was when we painted the detail on Sir Winston Churchill. I can’t wait to go to Brookfield.

I really liked coming up to Brookfield because it gave me a taste of what the Art is like. My favourite bit was painting the jumper on David Attenborough. As a result of this day, I am more confident now to meet new students.

Our Community Art Development Project took place on Thursday 3rd of May, this project consisted of us painting two large murals of inspirational figures for certain subject departments. Alongside us students of Brookfield, we had four passionate and enthusiastic students from Locks Heath Junior School who made a massive contribution to these murals as well. With these lovely students we spent the day tracing out and painting on to the canvases of Jane Austen and Alan Turing for Maths and English. From this we really hope they had a wonderful time with us and learnt much more about art on the way. Also, this means when they come up to Brookfield they have something to be proud of already and perhaps gain motivation to work towards more within our school and community.

As a whole, this project is one in which we all learn from each other in many different ways all whilst creating something that can be a great example for others – whether it be in the way of the inspirational figure or the opportunities the school offers.

Following an incredibly successful day when four Hook-with-Warsash students came to Brookfield to paint murals of revolutionary scientist, Marie Curie and famous, ex-prime minister, Winston Churchill, four more students from Locks Heath came to assist in the painting of two other artworks for the school.

For the entire day, we worked on our renditions of Hampshire author, Jane Austin, and pioneer mathematician, Alan Turing. This included sketching out their portraits, mixing paints carefully and blending colours to ensure they looked as they should.

We were able to almost finish both paintings and are incredibly proud after a long days work. Hopefully current and future Brookfield students will see the murals and be inspired by the figures portrayed.

At first I thought it looked impossible and then it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be.

I’m really proud of the work we have done. At first the painting was a patch on the head and now it’s the whole painting.

It was good because that’s the best painting I’ve ever done.

It was amazing. Everyone was really nice and it was a fun day. The students who were working with us were amazing. I’m definitely coming to this school.

On the 19th of April, 4 year 5 students came up from Hook With Warsash Academy to our school to help with a mural painting project. These 4 children: Jake, Josh, Annabelle and Evie were chosen because of their interest and skills in art. We decided to do 2 separate murals, one of Winston Churchill to go in the history department and the other of Marie Curie to go in the science department. Working on Marie Curie were 3 year 10 students: Amelie, Alana and Lucy along with the two year 5 girls Annabelle and Evie. Working on Winston Churchill were 2 year 10 students: Tia and Ella with the two year 5 boys Jake and Josh. Both murals were helped a lot by Miss Terry and Miss Thomas who did an amazing job.

We started the day with drawing on the outlines of our two people, we did the outlines in blocks so it was easier to paint. The year 5 pupils helped us mix paint and they did a great job. We then got to work, we started on the face and did all the skin tones which was challenging but fun. We hoped that through this challenge we could build the year 5s confidence in art.

We then chose our background colours; Marie Curie’s colour was blue to represent life and how she changed so many peoples' lives. Winston Churchill’s colour was red to show power and authority because of how he helped our country win the Second World War.

The hair was next, Marie Curie’s looked very effective and Winston didn’t have any hair, just a hat which was done very nicely by Jake, Josh and Miss Thomas.

We finally finished with the clothing, there were many intricate details which took a long time but looked amazing in the end.

We, as the students, feel like we made a very good friendship with the primary school students and hope they will come to our amazing school.  Hopefully we built their confidence in art as well as being with older students at a new school.

It was a very good day and the murals turned out amazing with the hard work and commitment from Miss Terry and Miss Thomas. We hope that the murals can inspire future students after the quotes have been put on, and make a positive school atmosphere and more exciting place to be.

For the art community development project, we researched inspirational figureheads to place around our school site.  The head of department leaders picked the figure they felt was most aspirational.  We painted Marie Curie for science with the primary school children, who enjoyed painting with us and learning new techniques in art.  We also loved doing this project because it was a great experience to paint people who can be looked up on by students for years to come.  Furthermore, we enjoyed working with the children as they were really involved and creative.  In addition, the primary school children can be proud of their work once they move up to Brookfield.

Four lucky year 5 artists took part in painting a mural (two people from each class) and were helped by six year 10s. There were two people we could choose to paint they were Winston Churchill or Marie Curie. Both of the boys did Winston Churchill and both of the girls did Marie Curie. First of all we had to draw the portraits of both Winston Churchill and Marie Curie. To draw them we traced over a picture shown by a visualizer that was photo shopped into little pieces so that when we came to painting it we could separate the different colours. Once we had finished drawing the people we needed to make colours. We blended all the colours then started painting. One group had a brilliant idea to do colour by number to make it a lot more easy for the year fives. The other group just tried really hard to get the right colours. Finally after hours of work we nearly finished but not quite. We were cheeky and left the rest to the year 10s :)  We had such a good day (Thanks teachers of Brookfield) and we were so so fortunate to go.