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In a wonderfully creative start to the new school year, on location in Laugharne in the warm September sun, local children came to work with a professional story teller and a professional artist. The 280 children in Years 6 and 7 came from Dyffryn Taf Comprehensive School and Cwmbach, Griffith Jones, Hafodwenog, Henllan Amgoed, Laugharne, Llanboidy, Llanddowror, Llangynin, Llanmiloe, Meidrim, Tremoilet and Whitland Primary Schools. Media Studies students from Years 12 and 13 at Dyffryn Aman Comprehensive School were also present and made a promotional film on the Boathouse in Laugharne. |
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Mary Medlicott, our Storyteller, began her sessions by telling some of her own stories, firmly rooted in Welsh landscape, tradition and memory. She took each group of students on a Memory Walk in the locality, encouraging them to notice, to observe the world around them and share their ideas and thoughts. With Mary’s support the students worked on their own stories, taking their first attempts back to school to work on and polish in class before their performance to the group on their second visit of the week. |
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Catrin Webster, our landscape artist, took her group of students to The Boathouse, stopping at a vantage point where she introduced them to water colour techniques. Like Mary, she encouraged them to observe their world closely and to reproduce exactly the right colours, tones and shades of the great expanse of estuary and sky stretching out to the south-west beyond the castle. At The Boathouse the students worked in pastels, creating just the right shades for the flaming geraniums, the lichen on the rocks, the light on muddy waters below, the oyster catchers and The Boathouse cats. Later, back in the village hall they worked on their drawing and printmaking techniques, finding just the right word or phrase to accompany the images they created. |