Pattern and Collage: A Whole School Workshop at Monkfield Primary School

By Sheila Ceccarelli and Andrea Butler

AccessArt were invited for a return visit to Monkfield Park Primary School to provide workshops for the whole school over two days. We planned a creative project that could be succesfully adapted for Reception through to Year 6 pupils based on patterns from around the world, working with KS2 on day one and KS1 on day two. Each session lasted between an hour and an hour and a half.

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In a cottage in northern Scotland, Megan Boyd twirled bits of feather, fur, silver and gold into elaborate fishing flies — at once miniature works of art and absolutely lethal. Wherever men and women cast their lines for the mighty Atlantic salmon, her name is whispered in mythic reverence, and stories about her surface and swirl like fairy tales. With breathtaking cinematography and expressive, hand painted animation, Kiss the Water adheres to and escapes from traditional documentary form, spinning the facts and fictions of one woman’s life into a stunning film about craft, devotion, love, and its illusions.
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