‘Scrap art’ Feniscowles pupils to be TV stars (From Lancashire Telegraph)

‘Scrap art’ Feniscowles pupils to be TV stars

12:18pm Wednesday 17th March 2010 in

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SCHOOL pupils in East Lancashire will be teaching the nation how to bring school projects to life using rubbish.

Pupils from Feniscowles Primary School, Blackburn, are set to appear in a special programme about scrap art which will be aired on the popular freeview and satellite channel Teachers TV.

Teachers TV is funded by the Department of Children, Schools and Families.

It offers programmes and resources which allow teachers to expand their skills and knowledge for them to roll out into classrooms where appropriate.

School bosses were approached to take part in the programme, which is set to air in the coming months, after working with craft store Scrap Art Material Store, or SAMS, Newfield Drive, Blackburn.The school had been working on a project about Africa and brought it to life using bits of scrap material.

Year three and four pupils transformed items such as reclaimed card and plastic tubing into African huts and jungle animals as part of ‘Africa Week’ at the school. All of the materials used for the project were purchased from SAMS, which is a non-for-profit organisation which is run by Community and Business Partners.

The children’s final creations are set to appear in a two-part programme entitled Primary Arts – Scrap Art, which will look at how other people’s rubbish can be turned into inspirational art and design projects.

Vicki Conway, deputy head at Feniscowles Primary School, said: “The focus of the television programme was ‘junk modelling’ and the children had great fun making the huts and jungle animals from reclaimed materials.”