Teachers' Professional Development

These images are a selection from a professional development day designed for a group of teaching professionals from Filton Nursery School in Bristol. The intention is to aid group development, explore individual and group creativity and to explore the natural qualities of the material.

Make an Elephant behind your back.

Based upon the quote by Terry Frost "If you know before you look, you can't see for knowing".
Making a clay elephant behind your back without looking forces people to use their sense of touch and visual memory to create an object.

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A group of Elephants
The results of the Elephant behind your back task.

Throwing clay.

This activity provides a release for participants and explores the natural qualities of the material.

Standing in a large circle each member of the group aims to throw their clay lump high into the centre of the circle simultaneously.

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Group Tower

The group are separated into teams of four or five people and asked to collaborate in the creation of the highest clay tower possible with all their combined clay lumps.

The Longest Line

Remaining in their teams they are asked to create the longest clay line possible with all their clay.

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