On Thursday, 7th October all of Year 6 did a sculpture workshop. We started by having 3 9x9 metre planks and then the teachers sketched out an underwater aquarium.
We then had to scrunch up newspapers and stick or staple them on. Once the bodies of the fish, sharks, foliage etc. had been built up we started to put on mod rock to harden it. Mod rock is made from the rock lime. We had to wet the mod rock to get it mouldable. We had to mould it round the newspaper and let it harden, it only takes a couple of minutes to dry though. When we had mod rocked it we put on a layer of protective paint. We left that for a day and then we put coloured paint on it. Once it has dried we will hang it in the hall.
We also went down to do wood carving with the 2 professionals. We started with a long hexagon shaped piece of wood. We had to carve it down into a peg to fit into a perfectly round hole. Once it fitted into the hole we had to carve it to make it look nice. We used an old fashioned spinner with a pedal. We pushed up and down on the pedal and the wood spun, we used carving tools to cut it down until it was perfect. We sanded it down and put it in the hole, but if it was too small we couldn’t do anything about it and we had to start again.
by Joseph O’Shea