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ALL SAINTS PRIMARY SCHOOL WADDINGTON
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Waddington Seasons
Mareham Pupils 1             Mareham Pulips 2
Pupils working on their tile patterns using square sections of a large "Four Seasons" design panel.  All of the one hundred and eighty children in this small country school took part in the project that lasted two days.  Maggie then spent several days in the studio finishing and glazing the tiles, using a colour scheme selected by the children. It then took a further two days to fix and seal the tiles to the exterior school wall.
Mareham Spring Tiles
Mareham Summer Tiles
Spring with Easter egg and sheep
Summer seaside scene
Mareham Autumn Tiles
Mareham Winter Tiles
Autumn landscape
Winter scene with snowman

Mareham Pupils with their Tile Panel
Maggie with the Mareham Le Fen Primary School Children and their Teacher
Proudly displaying their Four Seasons Tile Panel
Prior to the pottery session, the children worked on a drawing project about the Seasons. Various images from these drawings were photocopied, cut out and collaged together to form a design panel.  The collaged picture was then gridded in to squares and cut up for the children to copy on to clay.

Waddington Card

All Saints Primary School Children with their Tile Panel
Over the course of two days Maggie worked with over two hundred children, from Reception to Year 2 pupils, to construct all the tiles needed for the project.  The tiles were left to dry out slowly for about two weeks and then fired to 1000 degrees in an electric kiln.  Using the colours from the original drawings, Maggie was able to recreated the colour scheme in stoneware glazes.  The tiles were then fired a second time to 1260 degrees to fuse the glaze on to the clay.
Finally the tiles were fixed to the school wall.  The finished piece of art work was water proof and frost proof and the colours are durable and will not fade.
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