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The National Gallery Comes to North Crawley Village
mrs. isobel Ager - Righinioti would like to say many
thanks to everyone who helped contribute to the pancake race fundraiser for ssAFA.
'Take One Picture' is the National Gallery's countrywide scheme for primary schools. Each year the Gallery focuses upon one painting from the wide collection to inspire cross-curricular work in school classrooms. For staff from North Crawley and Stoke Goldington Church of England Schools the first stage in the 'Take One Picture' journey
was a remarkable one-day teachers' course at the National Gallery where they explored a variety of ways in which paintings can be used across the curriculum. At the end of the day teachers were presented with a print of the featured painting, still Life with drinking-horn, about 1653 by willem Kalf (1619–1693) and left London with inspirational ideas to use with the children back in school.
“Kalf’s still-life painting shows a collection of objects that celebrate life’s pleasures and luxuries. It also displays the artist’s pleasure and skill in the manipulation of colour, light and painted surfaces” – National Gallery. The challenge for the teachers was to use the image imaginatively in the classroom, both as a stimulus for artwork, and for work in more unexpected curriculum areas. Yet it was the children themselves who planned
A total of £300 was raised.
the project as their ideas flowed into work on pirates, inspirational writing about shipwrecks, with messages in bottles, ‘posh’ bejewelled drinking glasses, decorated stained glass and amazing 3D lobsters.
A grand exhibition of the fantastic work produced by the children of North Crawley CE School was revealed to parents at the newly opened “North Crawley Gallery”. One parent commented, “Fantastic. We are really impressed. It’s amazing how many ideas
Thank you for your help
Dear Editor
Friends of Newport Library would like to thank the Manager at SpecSavers Milton Keynes for choosing Newport Pagnell Library to be the recipient of all the book titles that appear on More 4 TV Book Club on Sundays. The books are on display in the library and are available for issue.
Tirath Crossley FONPL Secretary
Friday 20th April
5.30pm – 7.30pm
All children are welcome, but must be
accompanied by an adult. Please come along
All children are welcome, but must be a complied by an adult
Please come along and join in the friendly fun. andEjoyeins dinowtnh! e friendly fun.
Eyes down!
For more information please phone
Jo Cowley 01908 612845
Profits will be split equally between Sherington School PTFA & St Lauds Church
came out of this picture.” Another parent remarked “I loved the bright red and orange lobsters.....the large picture collage worked amazingly well – it looked like a real masterpiece.” And one final remark summed up the thoughts of many “It is just like a real gallery – only better!”
Olney and Emberton could hardly be described as threatening environments from anyone’s point of view, however contorted.
Sir
Re: Phonebox March 2012 – Jack Wooding
Am I alone in thinking that reports of an elderly and infirm gentleman apparently being subjected to “threatening anonymous phone calls late at night”, being “bullied by a bus driver” and “forced out of the town he was born in” hints at some missing information in M.W’s report.
Maybe M.W. can enlighten us as to why all the “people who should know better” don’t know better and what exactly is the other side of the story.
A casual visitor to Olney on any day of the week would observe that there are quite a few elderly and infirm residents who appear to be conducting a normal and happy existence.
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I have been fortunate in having worked with disabled people over many years and they, like other people, deserve respect. But they, like other people, need to go some way to deserving it.
Yours,
J.H. Yardley Hastings