Using the four school badges as inspiration for landscapes, the Imagineers made drawings together using ideas from the rest of their school pupils for what they imagined home, community, school and adults to be like in their lives.
‘The house we have drawn is big and the people inside are awesome’ Ben, Bramble Brae Primary School.
300 children from P4/5/6 at Bramble Brae, Manor Park, Riverbank and Tullos Primary Schools, imagined Aberdeen as a healthy, happy and safe place for all children, in their home, school and community. The children thought about human dignity, everyday relationships and what families need and why they are important. All of the children’s work has been gathered together and produced as four reports, which can be visited here. Their ideas in the report informed the key messages and images on the Imagining Aberdeen mural.
A manifesto for happy children everywhere, by the Riverbank Imagineers.
After the recent elections, Imagineers from Manor Park and Bramble Brae schools create their own manifesto for a place where every child is happy.
A newsletter for children, families and the people of Aberdeen about the Imagining Aberdeen Project
Children’s Parliament is working with children from four Aberdeen City schools – Imagining Aberdeen as a place where children are healthy, happy, safe and doing their best at school.
So far 300 children have taken part in workshops at school where we have been thinking and talking together about some big ideas like human dignity. The children created an amazing new way to measure dignity – above is one their diagnometers.
In the next phase of the project 5 children from each of our 4 schools will work with artists and a film-maker to represent their vision for the city.
What’s next for our Imagineers?
The next part of the project with our team of 20 imagineers is taking place on the following days:
Wednesday, 18th May is TEAM DAY
We are getting the full team together for the first time! The 20 children will meet each other and the Children’s Parliament team of artists who will help them in their role as imagineers.
Monday 23rd to Friday 27th May is MURAL WEEK + DVD PROJECT
Over the course of this week, the children will create a large-scale mural that represents all of the ideas from the 300 children who took part in the school workshops. We are also making a short film to capture all the great ideas our imagineers have.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. You can contact Catrin or Colin on catrin@childrensparliament.org.uk and colin@childrensparliament.org.uk
The Imagining Aberdeen blog will be updated everyday during Mural Week with pictures and ideas from the participating children. You can get involved by leaving your own comments underneath the blog posts. It would be great to hear what you have to say!
You can follow Children’s Parliament on Twitter @creative_voices
Bramble Brae and Manor Park Primary pupils came together to create a job description for an adult.
‘An adult should know:
An adult should be good at:
An adult should teach children
Dylan, Demi, Miriam, Malachy, Tijana, Jamie, Shannon, Ben and Lucy
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