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  Plans for Architecture week at ImagineNewmarket

 Architecture Week - Outline Plans for the Day

Venue -Tattersall's Barn, Time - 9.30am – 2.30pm - June 20th 2006

Time

KS1. 4 - 7yrs

KS2. 7-11 yrs

Notes

9.15am

Arrive

Arrive

Need reception, place for coats, toilets. Lunch box storage, water, plastic cups.

Have a signing in/register arrangement.

9.30- 9.45

Welcome and introduction to ImagineNewmarket.

Outline and aims of the day.

Concept of Children's Forum.

Competition to be arranged.

Talk on buildings and large 
community use buildings, architects 
work, plans and design.

Power of 10, 10 people, ten areas, ten building materials, patterns using 10.

As KS1, joint session

Need banner, flyers, packs for children.

Plans to show, models of buildings, video/internet sites

Decide on competition

Examples of 10 building materials, eg stone, bricks, wood, glass, plastic, steel, chalk, flint, carrstone, marble and other rocks.

9.45 – 10.30

1.10 Little Pigs

Create a story board based on The Three Little Pigs. Expand the story to 10, using the children's ideas for names of pigs and the materials used, could range from plastics, glass etc to sweets, recycled materials.

2.Work in groups of 4/5 children. Create a story Board for a Big Book of their own building, using one of the 10 materials and keeping to the story.

Building Designs.

Pictures of 10 large buildings and their design for purpose and aesthetics.

Eg Gherkin building, Japanese Children's Centre, Suffolk school,

Look at space around the building, fitting in with the 'scape' surrounding it.

In 10 groups design and draw the outside of ImagineNewmarket.

Add to 'Wall of Ideas'

Need a display board for Wall of Ideas.

Need a range of materials for creating models.

Need pictures of different buildings.

10.30 – 11.00

Break

Break

Need water and fruit available.

Use outside space, adult supervision for play, create boundaries for children.

11.00 – 12.00

Talk about large buildings they have been to etc, have pictures of other centres.

Talk about what the building might look like, the spaces needed, what you might have inside.

Individually or in pairs/groups draw outside 
of the building. Draw aspects of the inside space, eg use of the rooms, entrance.

Add to the 'wall of ideas'

Inside the building.

What impression does it give, how much space do we need for the entrance. What sort of spaces do we need inside.

Design and draw10 rooms in the building

Add to 'Wall of Ideas'

Photographs/pictures of buildings.

12.00 -1.00pm

Lunch

Lunch

Need suitable place for children to have lunch, adult supervision, place to play outside or inside if wet.

Rota for adult helpers for lunch breaks.

1.00 – 2.00

Review the 'Wall of Ideas'

Have we retained Power of 10.

Using different materials create own models of the building using a range of resources.

Review the 'Wall of Ideas'

Have we retained Power of 10.

Using different materials create own models of the building using a range of resources.

Range of materials from paper, card, recycled materials, straws, corrugated card, plastics etc

2.00 – 2.15

Break

Break

 

2.15 – 2.30

Plenary

What we have achieved.

How much more we know about buildings, large buildings, architects.

Children's Forum and future involvement

Plenary

What we have achieved.

How much more we know about buildings, large buildings, architects.

Children's Forum and future involvement

Need to have completed a list of children and schools who would like to be involved further in ImagineNewmarket.

Check signing out/register at leaving.

 

 

 

 



 

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