Intake High School Arts College

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“Requests started to flood into the Art Department for Valentines cards, Mothers Day cards, Easter cards, Birthday cards, notelets, note books and Year 11 Leaving Books.” - teacher

CARD MAKING WORKSHOP

In September 2003 we set up a card making workshop commissioning the local artist and business woman Sharon Hiley to work with a group of 15 for 2 hours a week. Sharon showed us her own Christmas card range and explained about running a freelance card business. Sharon designed a specialist range to start with and taught us how to form production lines for creating the cards and work as part of a team. Everyone got the chance to experiment with a variety of different tasks and develop the original designs until the ‘GET IN THERE’ collection was fashioned. ‘GET IN THERE’ cards joined the ‘Young Business Enterprise’ a 6 th form extra curricular project and set up a stall in Granary Wharf shopping centre. The cards were sold and this really was the beginning for ‘GET IN THERE’ cards. The work has continued with vigour and cards are sold to staff and pupils in school. All in all this NOF activity turned out to be a huge success.

“Pupils began to be very involved and assigned each other roles in the production team. They began to take pride in their work and were meticulous in the design, production and packaging.” - teacher

“The pupils benefited from the team work and the decision making. They chose what type of cards were made and designed them personally. They learnt to have pride in their own work and grew in confidence both in the workshops and in the classroom. Pupils experimented at the start of the project with no fear and ended with a fantastic product.” - teacher

“Pupils learnt that practice makes perfect which has helped them throughout school.” - teacher