A RollingSound media project in 8 London schools

Well, that about wraps it up for the Making Your Mark project. RollingSound would like to thank the staff and children at Southborough Primary, the Sir John Lillie School, The Southover Partnership School, Edmonton County School, Oaks Park High School, Woolwich Polytechnic, The Bridge Academy and Uphall Primary for making this such a fun project. We’d also like to thank Charlotte Wolff and Ian Louden from ArcelorMittal, all the staff at A New Direction and a special extra thanks to Trevor Mason at A New Direction for all his help setting up the project with each school.

Finally thank you to you for reading this blog! You can find out more about the work of RollingSound here and the further work of A New Direction here,  and don’t forget to check Charlie’s blog for more iconic Olympic moments – or why not submit your own? We’d love to know what you think of the Making Your Mark project so please do leave us a comment or drop us a line at info@rollingsound.co.uk for more information about our creative arts work with young people.

Some more pictures from project sessions at The Southover Partnership school

We were very grateful to Ian Louden and Charlotte Wolff from the ArcelorMittal company, who made a visit to Southover school to talk to students there about the design challenges of building the real ArcelorMittal Orbit! Also pictured (far left) is Trevor Mason from project funders A New Direction who was an invaluable help on the project.

Sorry, we fell into the trap most bloggers do, and stopped blogging. We were just busy – honest!

This week we have been busy at the Bridge Academy in Fulham. Students there have begun work on their designs and will be studying for a Bronze Arts Award. They also got a surprise visit from the mayor, who popped in to see the students work.

There are some more examples of the students work on the Bridge Academy blog. We’re taking a quick break for the Easter holidays, but when we come back the students will be heading down to the Tate Modern to look at the work of Gabriel Orozco for the Arts Award ‘Arts Event’ unit. The week after, they will be teaching their new found SketchUp skills to other students and teachers to complete their Arts Apprenticeship unit.