{"id":2606,"date":"2010-10-15T11:28:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T11:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2013-02-12T15:32:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T15:32:31","slug":"locws-schools-2010-st-thomas-primary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?p=2606","title":{"rendered":"Locws Schools 2010: St Thomas Primary School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Guided Tour of Locws Projects 2010\/2<\/strong><br \/>\nOnce the children started to understand the concept of contemporary art, their ideas became a lot more imaginative. They became inspired by Tine Bech\u2019s installation.<br \/>\nCameron thought that this work could be reproduced by using balloons, which could be suspended across the Hall area of their school. This could make a very colourful installation.<br \/>\nWhen we visited Rebecca Spooner\u2019s work we were fortunate enough for her to be there and she was able to chat to the children about her work. Ryan noticed that the films looped and Catlin was intrigued by the set up. The children listened carefully to my commentary and absorbed what I had to say.<br \/>\nThe map and documentary of Simon Whitehead\u2019s work had loads of potential in the St.Thomas area and the teacher thought if I were to start the ball rolling, via Locws Schools, it would tie into a later literacy project further on in the year. This would be very exciting and interesting to see the sustainability in this area of work. Tom thought we could draw a map of a local walk in the St.Thomas area.<br \/>\nWe finished on a great note as Shaheim said, \u201cEverything I\u2019ve seen today has inspired me to do something a bit different in art\u201d.<br \/>\nDavid Marchant 2010<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/schools\/st_thomas\/st_thomas1.jpg\" alt=\" st_thomas\" title=\" st_thomas\" width=\u201c510\u201d height=\u201c334\u201d class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-603\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/schools\/st_thomas\/st_thomas2.jpg\" alt=\" st_thomas\" title=\" st_thomas\" width=\u201c510\u201d height=\u201c334\u201d class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-603\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/schools\/st_thomas\/st_thomas3.jpg\" alt=\" st_thomas\" title=\" st_thomas\" width=\u201c510\u201d height=\u201c334\u201d class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-603\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/schools\/st_thomas\/st_thomas4.jpg\" alt=\" st_thomas\" title=\" st_thomas\" width=\u201c510\u201d height=\u201c334\u201d class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-603\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/schools\/st_thomas\/st_thomas5.jpg\" alt=\" st_thomas\" title=\" st_thomas\" width=\u201c510\u201d height=\u201c334\u201d class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-603\" \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guided Tour of Locws Projects 2010\/2 Once the children started to understand the concept of contemporary art, their ideas became a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,63,10,161],"tags":[363,67],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-locws-schools","category-news","category-outreach-news","tag-locws-schools","tag-locws-schools-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6074,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions\/6074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}