There was a fruit winnder paper in are square. Grass was starting to grow at the front. There are lots of daisies now and very few speedwell flowers.

We are still looking at our square metre. It is getting overgrown at the back. There are lots of daisies now and no yellow dandelions. More people have holes as well. There are lots of cracks in the soil too.

J3.

J2.

J1.

I3.

I2.

I1.

H3.

H2.

H1.

G3.

G2.

G1.

F3.

F2.

F1.

E3.

E2.

E1.

D3.

D2.

D1.

C3.

C2.

C1.

B3.

B2.

B1

A3.

A2.

I'm putting up each of the overlapped individual sections - perhaps P4 if I fill the coordinates you would like to claim them ?

This is A1

text to follow

P4 -write up to follow

We have decided that we want to keep our Ballydown Square metre window. We will look at it every week still. We want it to stay over the summer to see all the changes when we are away on our holidays. We also picked another coordinate to look at and see someone elses. It was good too.

We invited our parents into school to tell them all about our Ballydown Square metre window.
First we went to the Hall and did a powerpoint presentation showing our parents our sections. Ann showed us her 30 sections. It looked good. Then we did some performance art and stepped into our picture using our powerpoint presentation. Then we took our parents into our classroom and up to the square metre window. It was fun telling our parents all about it. After break we had to do it all again for P2 and P3.

We saw our photo of our section on the interactive whiteboard.We went inside the picture. It was weird but fun. I put a chair on a table in front of the board. I curled up on the chair and I became a hole in my picture. I said I was a really dark hole. By Jack

This week we had to go up to our square metre window and we looked at our section. We took a photo of our section. We had to be an object, I decided to be a sprouting piece of grass. Hayden took a photo of me being a piece of sprouting grass. In class we printed our photos and then we cut them up like a collage sort of like a jigsaw an put it into a laminating pocket. We cut ourselves out and put ourselves in the picture. Then we laminated them. It was fantastic. By Harry

I found on week 4 two little holes that were not there on week 1. I think it was a worm and a bird trying to peck it.My co-ordinate is F2 .By Rachel.

In week one I had only one speed well flower. On week four I have eight. Nearly half of my section is covered in flowers. I think my section is the most colourful. My co ordinate in J2 By Angus

I found a dasiy in mine, it is in B3. This is the first time it appeared. There are lots of other green leaves too. By Amy

I found a slug in my section on a leaf eating it's way through. My co ordinate is H3. By Jake

We talked to Ann from Rathlin Island. She asked us about what we had found out about our square metre from last week. We told her about out discoveries. Ryan found a dead beetle . Jack H found a massive black beetle . Alicia found a worm . Mathew found 4 beetles but 2 were dead. Ryan found a slug . Isaac had a plant in his section . Then Ann gave us instructions for what to do, she told us to take a memory photo . We had 30 seconds to look at our section . Then we drew a picture of one thing with oil pastels.

In my section there is a dandelion in bloom and one that is not in bloom. There is also dried leaves,a hawthorn tree and weeds. My co-ordinate is (D,3)
by Lucy

P4 went up to the pitch to look at the square metre.
Some people noticed that there were some things that weren't there last week.

Then we went out and looked for 1 thing in our section and remembered it.
Then we got black card and pastels, we had to draw one thing.

We showed our pictures to Ann and took a photo with the webcam.
I liked drawing with the pastels.
By Sarah

This is a birds eye photo of my section. It has a dandelion and some daisies in it. I like it because it has flowers. My co-ordinate is C3. by Hannah

Ann was talking to us on the computer using the webcam. She told us some instructions to do for our metre square. Then we went outside to measure our metre square window. We put string down to make 30 little spaces for everyone in the whole class. Then we came back and picked out space using co-ordinates. Then we took a photograph of our space. We collected lots of minibeasts. We found a slug, worm, spider, centipede and ant. We came back to class and each table had a minibeast to work on. Every person had a little part of the minibeast to do.

We had to first look for a good spot for our window. We decided to put it near a fence on our top pitch. We thought this area was good.

Update May 20th 2008

As you are aware P5 , I have not been able to follow through with your instructions and the journal updates for The Allotment piece in the way that I had intended.

I now have a back log of images on the camera and will get these up ASAP. A time thing as always !

I also ran into some practical problems in carrying out the instructions. In order to water the seeds, as you instructed, I have to open the sliding lid of the pill box. This worked perfectly until, a few days into the work, the plants themselves began to get damaged in the process. ( Read More )

Forgive me P5, and Miss Orr - I have lots of updates to put up in the journal but cannot physically find the time - maybe this weekend.

I also want to make an alteration to the "Allotment" piece and repeat the process - if you are on for it.
I'll use the same instructions you gave me but will put 28 seeds in each compartment.I have to date been finding it difficult to get detailed enough images to put up on the journal to really show you what's going on. So I think this development should help in solving that problem.

Ann

P5 - the piece begins !
"Allotment, 25th April, 2008"

Following instructions.

Instructions from P5.

" "Allotment" - This piece of work had been intended for Catalyst Arts Members show but, having misread and subsequently missed the deadline, I asked P5 if they would be interested in participating.

P5 have been given a random number between 1 and 28.

They each are responsible for prescribing the growing conditions for one "Sprouting Seed - Cress Curled", (according to Suttons ! ) within one of the 28 compartments in the pill box.The numbers within the pill box begin top left and read down in vertical columns. The columns then read consecutively across to the right.

Written by Ann.

I'd promised P4/P5 I'd put a few still frames up on their journal. We had recorded two ice cubes, made by the whole class, on time lapse, but as it turned out there wasn' t enough of a melt pool to make this effective as a time lapse piece. These particular ice cubes contained too much solid matter. If we only had another week to work together ... !

So, we made a group decision not to include the video on our journal or as part of the open day work, as every exhibition is only as strong as the weakest part. However, we did want to represent the process to date and our decision.

Ann.

week3 Mrs Duke got the ice cubes we made and put them on a piece of paper and we watched them melt. Some looked like little mountain's . When they melted we needed to outline the water and put
the time beside it. When the water was all dry some of us showed Ann our ice cubes. The picture we

We drew pictures that we had seen on Google Earth on really small pieces of paper and set them in ice-cube trays, filled them with water and put them in the freezer.

We used Google Earth to look down at the Earth from a satilite. We did memory drawings to select images. We used oil pastels and a black piece of paper. By Sarah and Lucy.

Following the sound travels down to our classroom

In our classroom, we got into groups. First we got an A4 map of the classroom, an A3 map of the classrtoom, 1 sheet of acetate and a permanent marker. Then we sent Ann to places in the classroom. We sent her to the corner window and she sent us to the work-book shelf. Next we tried to make a picture. Our first one was to look like a face but it didn't work. The next one was a flower but when Courtney took it her finger was in it. Clara took the next one and it worked. When we came back we did the acetate drawings. Next we made sounds. Read more...

This week, Ann sent us to the Prank Patrol Table - but not on top - on the bottom! And here is a tip - never go under a table with trays, you can really hurt your head! We had to record us all doing a sound together. We did the table legs. I'm sure you're wondering what she used to record. Well she did not use her mobile, she used a microphone and a recorder. We could not make any loud noises or she would catch them with the microphone.

Ann sent us to the sink and we decided to take a photo of glitter. We made a noise by using paintbrushes and we smacked them together. We sent Ann to Miss Orr's very very very clean store - NOT! We had to make a noise - which was complete silence.

Ann gave us directions to diffrent parts of the class room.
She gave us metre rulers to help us find the place. We took a photo and we made a sound with the recorder and microphone. The photo and sound had to be unusual. We got Ann to go to a place too. She had to do things we did. It was very very fun!! We used acetate and we made a map to the place Ann took us to.But over all it was very very good FUN!!

We stuck up 4 pages of the 4 main points of the compass - North,South,East and West. Ann sent us 4 metres North-East and 75cm North and 2 metres high. We ended up at the TV. We thought it would end up at the fire bell.We took a photo of inside the video player.We got a mini map of the classroom and a big map.We got a piece of acetate paper and put the acetate paper over the map of the classroom and traced around the map. We thought this week was brilliant! Thanks Ann!!!! Art is the BEST!!!!!!!

Ann told us a story .
We wrote what Ann said
how to get to the place our group picked.
then we drew the stuff we wrote onto the Storyboard

We took the notes that
Ann told us about the
story of the journey

Ann put a map of Rathlin Island for us .
Then we got into groups of 4.
After we picked places for Ann to go.
We wrote notes of the story Ann told us.
Then we drew the notes on to the story board.
There were seven groups
We picked the places we wanted Ann to go to.
Group 1 picked Bruce's cave
Group 2 picked Bruce's Castle
Group 3 picked Kilpatrick
Group 4 picked Church Bay
Group 5 picked Ballykill
Group 6 picked Harbour
Group 7 picked Sronnamaddy
We really liked our Art today

We finished our colour blind pictures .
Then we arranged them in different shapes Most
of us liked the rectangle, so we picked the rectangle.
Then we put it up on the wall as a rectangle.
It looked amazing!

This is the second week of art ALL DAY
it is relly exiting. I have wrote down what we have done all
day here is what i wrote.
We did colour blind pictures.
We took photos from every point of the composs outside the school.
We finished off our grid refrences map.
We thought our pictures were very nice.
We drew two lines they were two mils apart.
We got into our groups and chose our composs point and put the strip in that direction.

We did colour blind pictures. We took group photos from the either side of the main compass points outside our school. We finished off our tin foil grid reference map. Our pictures are very nice. We drew two lines on the photos and they were two mm apart and we cut them out. We had to choose a compass direction. The strip was cut out of the photo graph and we stuck down on the paper in that direction. We then had to draw lines from the strip to match the colour and continue.