AIM

The aim of this project was to engage students with the wider multicultural community, celebrating communal changes. This involved collaborating with Swanlea’s primary feeder schools. The objective was to prepare students in primary schools the transition to secondary schools. Swanlea pupils were aiming to achieve their collaborative work through being introduced to new and contemporary textiles skills by professional artists and by producing school equipment bags as their ultimate target. The duration of the project was 10 weeks.

Students using sew machines

Plan of the project

• It was decided that initially, Sarah from Textiles In Transition would visit the Primary feeder schools and discuss the format for the collaboration between Swanlea and the Primary schools.
• The second stage was that Sarah would come into Swanlea School to discuss both Bengali and English cultural mix in Tower Hamlets and work with Year 8 students on producing pieces of quilting.
• The third phase of the project was to take the quilting produce to the primary feeder schools and show it to the participating students so that it would ignite some ideas and motivate them to play their part in the project.
• The final part of involved the primary schools coming into Swanlea in order to carry out a 2-day workshop with Swanlea students and make their final product

This is the final product: school bag

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