Project Introduction

Andy D’Cruz working with Fairlands School

Andy carried out several main projects within Fairlands School. The school is on a split site, so as well as ‘sliding up to literacy’, as Andy puts it, there was also an issue about exploring the environment of the school grounds and getting a whole picture of the site in the minds of the staff and pupils.

The projects covered the following activities:

• Rubbings
• Collecting photographs
• Collecting objects – bagging and tagging
• Tagging around the school grounds
• Collecting ‘field’ recordings
• Collecting personal objects

Each of the project pages offers a description of the activity, with most projects also offering a downloadable worksheet as a guide to the activity and a powerpoint presentation with pictures of the results.

Whispering school

You will also find some audio material on this site which is the result of collecting recordings of children and staff telling stories and reading them aloud.
The Whispering School project included Andy installing CD players in the air-conditioning vents of the school, playing the children’s recordings, and also siting ‘whispering teddy bears’ around the school, each with a recording playing from inside it.

Project links

Project 1: Rubbings
Project 2: Collecting photographs
Project 3: Collecting objects – bagging and tagging
Project 4: Tagging around the school grounds
Project 5: Collecting ‘field’ recordings
Project 6: Collecting personal objects
Project 7: Collecting and sharing words and stories