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POOLE’S MASTER CLASS SHOWCASE

Talented students from Poole taking part in a series of master classes will be showcasing their work at Poole Arts Centre on Thursday, 22 June 2000 at 6.30 pm.

As part of an innovative new project, over 160 students aged between 13 and 14 took part in a series of workshops and master classes for writing, mathematics and art. The classes were designed to build links with schools across the borough by providing opportunities for students to work together.

The evening’s entertainment will include poetry readings, music and drama from the writers’ workshops, an exhibition of drawings and paintings and mathematical problems and puzzles encountered by the students.

Rachael Adamczyk, age 13 from Ashdown School, who took part in the art master class, said: "It was great working with three lecturers and having them to advise and teach me different techniques. Getting to meet other children that shared my interest was also great fun. We started off the project by experimenting with materials and techniques to create drawings and collages and developed our ideas to produce a large mixed media painting."

The writing workshops took place at Scaplen’s Court and the Waterfront Museum in Poole Old Town where students, inspired by their surroundings focused on the changing work and culture of Poole over the centuries.

In mathematics master classes, students encountered questions and solutions posed by mathematicians such as Fibonacci and Pasqual over the centuries, sometimes with a modern tinge - the chances in 'Play your cards right', or the Golden Ratio in a building or a picture.

A selection of the poems written by the students is being published as a booklet and will be available during the evening.

The evening will also include a short talk by Vanda North from the Tony Buzan Centre, on "Thinking Skills". The centre has been at the forefront of international work on the ways that areas of the brain are used for different activities, such as the artistic, mathematical, language-based and creative work that has been the focus of the Poole Partnership Project.

Jeff Hart, Head of School Advice and Support Services said: "This has been an exciting project which gave pupils from Poole’s schools a chance to meet with one another and put their talents to the test. It has been particularly exciting to challenge these very able pupils with stimulating exercises and activities. We have been very grateful to all the staff and students for the work they put in to make the workshops a success and to the writers, artists and mathematicians who came to Poole to lead the workshops."

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EDITOR’S NOTES:
The Poole Partnership Project is the result of a successful bid made by Poole Local Education Authority for funding from the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) under their ‘Building Bridges’ programme to build links between independent and state schools.

Schools taking part in the Partnership Project are:
Ashdown School, Carter Community School, St Edward’s School, Martin Kemp-Welch School, Corfe Hills School, Parkstone Grammar School, Poole Grammar School, Canford School, Uplands School

Pupils: Year 9 pupils (13/14 year olds)

Writers Beverley Naidoo
Laurence Sail
Colin MacFarlane

Mathematicians Dr Charles Wall
Dr Mike Fletcher
Dr Adrian Pinel
Mr David Ross

Artists: Peter Joyce
Kate Buxton
Peter Symons

Funding: £35,000 special grant from Department of Education and
Employment.

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Bridget Baines, , School Advice & Support Service, tel: (01202) 262727