Day 1 - Tyne Visits

Today all year 7 students visited locations related to the Tyne. We have had fun, please check out the videos and photos for see what we have been doing - everything from sketching to a Geordie tour to interviewing people about the Tyne.

Locations of the QR Codes on the Tyne - In Geographical Order (From West to East)

More to follow! Use this blog entry to find the locations of the QR codes

Here is the link to our google map showing the locations, or follow the clues below.

If you go out on the trail, make sure you have a QR code app installed on your phone if you are able to.



Wylam: Near George Stephenson's birthplace

Quayside: Near a stone arch

Quayside: Near some Kittiwakes

Quayside: Near a blinking eye

Quayside: Near a wise old man



Quayside: Near an ex-floating party

What is the Tyne Project? (A teacher perspective)

From Monday 13th June students at Cramlington Learning Village in the North East of England are having a week where their normal timetable will be suspended. During this week they will be choosing from a wide range of arts based projects. During the course of the week they will visit The Tyne and create pieces of art stimulated by our local river.

The hope is that this project will do two things:

• Give students a rich experience and help them to develop their artistic and creative skills
• To help them connect to their cultural heritage, using the river as an access point to our regions rich history.

We will then publicly exhibit our art and learning in school on Saturday 25th June so that there is an authentic audience for our work.

Of course we will we be using this blog and our twitter feed @tyneproject as another way to exhibit our learning and then there is the exciting use of QR codes to link to our students' work.

We are placing a number of QR codes along the length of the Tyne so that you can be 'in situ' on the banks of the Tyne and use a smartphone to view the art that our students have created.


This project has been influenced by our involvement with both Learning Futures and High Tech High.


It is my hope that this will be the only teacher blog on this site. Students will begin tweeting and blogging from Sunday 5th June, when a small group of students will cycle along the Tyne to gather stories, photographs and video. These will be used as a stimulus for the whole year 7 cohort in a launch assembly on Thursday 9th June, during which we also hope to have a Skype link to Nagarjuna Academy, our partner school in Nepal, where students from Kathmandu can tell our students about the human importance of their great river, The Bagmati.

Tynemouth

One group went to tynemouth and took some pictures for insparation to make paintings and drawings and here they are!

 

Students carrying out field sketches on Tynemouth Beach

Armstrong Monument - which influenced Jodie's song about the Tyne.

Arbeia South Shields

The 4D tyne travel group went out to Arbeia and took some historical photo's here is just a sample!

This influenced their 4D trip down the Tyne

Pedestrian Tyne Tunnel

Sam and James went out to talk to the bridge builders about their visit to the tyne tunnel.

The groups went to the tyne tunnel and had to look at how the tyne tunnel was built. when they got back to school they had to work in groups to build a bridge.

Boat

They also went on a trip to a boat and they were aloud to drive it. here is an interview. 

North Shields

This group had to go to north shields to find out the history of the geordie. They looked at lots of thing the geordie used to do such as the songs they sang and the food they ate.This is them flying kites.