Giant continues to develop work with and for schools and nurseries.  Sometimes this is done in partnership with other organisations or because a school/nursery has asked us to work with them and, sometimes, Giant seeks to work with specific schools.

Our main interest is to develop partnership links between Special Educational Needs (SEN) and mainstream schools.  In addition, Giant is keen to engage with teaching and care staff and deliver CPD training in using the arts in the classroom.

Giant's Productions can tour to schools as well as schools coming to see shows in other venues.  Sometimes we are able to offer workshops to accompany the show and generally a workshop pack will be provided for teachers to continue the experience back in the classroom.

Projects

What Does the Colour Blue Sound Like? (September 2008)

Eastmuir School Project (January / February 2008)

Imagination Stations (November 2007)

Illuminating Links (September - October 2007)

World Beneath My Feet (October 2006 - January 2007)

Burp! (2006)

Press

TESS Article - The Ceilidh Tree- home / school partnership project

Link to more information on The Ceilidh Tree project

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What Does the Colour Blue Sound Like? (September 2008)

What Does the Colour Blue Sound like? was a week long sensory music project with nurseries in West Lothian.

The project used colour as a starting point for musical invention and spontaneous composition. Dave Boyd , Musician in residence with Giant led sessions that looked at four colours: red, blue, green and white.Staff and children ecplored themes around the colours such as the hot Arabic rhythms of red and the cool sea like melodies of blue.

After four days of workshops the project culminated in a performance/sharing on day five.

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Eastmuir School Project (January / February 2008)

Drama/ Expressive Arts sessions

Across five sessions pupils from primaries 3 and 4 worked with Giant using drama, music, sensory props, movement and visual arts activities to explore a range of garden/ outdoor themes.

Activities included Looking at different stories about plants and animals , exploring how garden creatures move, singing songs and creating their very own bug to add to a massive garden themed collage!

The activities were varied allowing children with a wide range of abilities to participate at their own level. The stories and songs really caught the children's imagination so much so that the children would be singing the songs all week in class.  Teacher, Eastmuir Primary

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Imagination Stations (November 2007)

As part of Glasgow City Council's Inspiration Festival Giant transformed The Giant Workshop Space into a specially created environment inspired by famous artists and the imaginations of children.

Nursery aged children explored a playful world of artworks, colour and ideas stopping at activity stations along the way to take part in music, movement, drama and visual art activities.

Children were encouraged to play in the colourful painted world of a Paul Klee painting, using music and symbols, shapes, lines, splashes and sloshes to describe the world around.

They also interacted with the movement, reflections and sound of a Calder mobile, suspended with moving structures using manmade and natural material. A series of Picasso mystery sculpted heads were explored as children were encouraged to add to, build and take them to pieces.

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Illuminating Links (September - October 2007)

As part of a community project at Firhill Basin to celebrate the redevelopment of the Forth and Clyde Canal by British Waterways, Giant was commissioned by UZ Events to work with pupils from five local schools on a visual arts project.

The project involved creating lanterns which would be displayed on barges forming a procession at the canal to compliment six larger scale sculptures of local buildings created by lead artist Graeme Gilmour.

Over six weeks the Giant team worked with pupils from St Teresa's/Broomlea, St Gregory's, Our Lady of the Assumption, Sighthill and Ruchill / Ruchill Communication Disorder Unit. The pupils looked at the design of local buildings through sketching and photography and then created lantern sculptures from willow inventing their own design for the panels of the lanterns.

The project culminated in a procession of barges displaying the lanterns and a firework extravaganza lighting up the floating sculptures of local buildings which the children had chosen to be represented.

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World Beneath My Feet (October 2006 - January 2007)

Towards the end of 2006 pupils from three different geographically placed Scottish schools: one coastal (Drummore Primary, Dumfries and Galloway ) one rural (Forth Primary, South Lanarkshire ) and one urban (Ruchill Primary and Communication Disorder Unit, Glasgow) worked with the Giant visual arts team observing, exploring, and creating within their different environments.

Working with skilled environmental and video artists the children had the opportunity to experience a variety of art processes including drawing, sculpture, projection and animation using both manmade and natural materials to investigate their surroundings and produce associated artworks.

Communicating with their fellow schools by postcards, e- mail s, photographs and a specially created blog site they were able to share responses to the project as it developed and to understand more about their own environment and learn about the other environments too.

The culmination of the project and all the hard work by the pupils who took part was an exhibition in the Tramway in Glasgow showcasing the animations, sculptures and drawings created by the three schools.

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Burp! (January - March 2006)

This food themed animation project saw Giant's visual arts director and a media expert from Fast Forward Play working with pupils from primary schools Broomlea, St Teresa's and Saracen of the new Keppoch Campus in Glasgow.

The children had a great time talking and experimenting with food, learning how animation works and being involved in the animation process from the initial designing to the filming of animation characters and settings.

Everyone created their own foodie characters through drawing, plasticine modelling and using food stuffs and then went on to develop stories for these characters.

Working alongside a musician the children then created sound effects and music for their characters and stories.

The final result of all this hard work is a series of short animations together creating Burp! a 10 minute animation which was premiered for the participants and other pupils at a sharing day at the campus.

This animation is now available on DVD which also contains A Little Burp! theshorter version and The Making of Burp!

View some of the animation here soon!

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