As well as working on small-scale individual pop-ups, they worked as a team on the larger pieces. Each class used a story they’d been studying and, in the case of year 2, the challenge was to connect Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Twelfth Night, and paper engineering.

The solution was to produce stage-like structures representing the setting for each play which, believe or not, still folded flat by the end.

I left each class to continue working as I moved on to the next, but nothing prepared me for what I was shown at the end of day 2 (see the bottom photos).

It has to be said that none of this would have been possible without the input of a very enthusiastic head and a group of brilliant teachers.

  Y 1

Y 2

             Y  e  a  r    1             

If you are in Chichester don’t leave without seeing the Marc Chagall stained glass window on the south wall of the Cathedral.

Great news! – well for me anyway.  Claws United and Rover City are scheduled for a rematch next year when The Big Match is re-launched.

Everything will stay the same apart from a possible re-design of the cover and a change to the super static-electriciy game at the back which will now become a super blow-football game. The book was conceived as a type of football handbook, using natural enemies (or are they?), cats and dogs, on the opposing sides. It covers areas such as the fans, souvenirs, football skills and rules, and takes much of it’s inspiration North London where I live.

Look out for the book in April 2012.
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