The third workshop at Jubilee School


This workshop is in two parts, the first part was on on Friday July 13 and the second part was on on Wednesday September 12 2007

In the first part of the workshop, Morag Scott's class received the magic bag which had come back from China. It contained their original picture books which had made the journey all the way to China and back, and had been read by the Spritivity students in Beijing. Also inside the magic bag were five sets of the first versions of the four picture books made by students at the Beijing workshops. These picture books are inspired by the Jubilee picture books and feature the Jubilee sprites, together with five sets of all the 31 sprites made by the Beijing students to send to the Jubilee students.


The Jubilee students, working in five groups, read the Beijing picture books togethe and explored the pictures and descriptions of the 31 Beijing sprites,



Each group then collectively created a story that would feature some of the Beijing Sprites, together with some of the Jubilee sprites that they had made previously.


View photo gallery:interpreting sprites and making stories


In the second part of the workshop, each group of the Jubilee students (now starting their year 6 class) were provided with a set of 31 A4 pages of
Beijing sprite stickers: each sticker page contained a description of a specific Beijing Sprite, and copies of the sprite image in various sizes.



The students completed
seven new picture books illustrating the stories that they had started to create in the first part of the workshop during July. They made their own backgrounds for the pages in their storybook and stuck in the appropriate Beijing Sprites on each page to show and tell their story. You can download high definition copies of the new picture books, which print out the same size as the originals.


Schedule for the workshop

10:00–10.45am- Students once again worked in the five small groups they had formed in July. Each group worked on the final narratives and characters to include in their picture books. Students selected sprites created by both Beijing and Jubilee students to complete their narratives through picture books.


10:45-11:00- The groups shared the stories with the whole class. Students took on the roles of their characters while they narrated. A few
picture books were also given a title, collectively authored, after the whole class heard and saw what the contexts and sprites represented within these stories.


CONCLUSION


The conclusion of this workshop marks the completion of this first series of workshops generating collective stories between students from Beijing and London through a picture language.

You may like to view a discussion between Patrick Humphreys, Director of the London Multimedia Lab for Audiovisual Composition and Communication, and Morag Scott, the class teacher involved in the Spritivity workshops at Jubilee Primary School about her impression of the workshops and views on Spritivity