Jon spent the day with Yr3 at Clifton Primary School in Birmingham.

After the obligatory potter’s wheel assembly, three classes of 30 children made collaborative, 3D letters.
The letters correctly arranged spell out the school motto: ‘A world of learning together’. The intention is to dot them around the school grounds for children to discover and piece together as part of an art/nature trail.

St Andrews First School in Evesham is soon to have another fine piece of ceramic art to add to it’s collection.

The school already boasts a fantastic clock and terracotta dragon made with Jon and whole school participation.
This time the new head requested a collaborative work for their forest school site. After much discussion it was decided a storytelling mud throne might be appropriate with fired, terracotta additions.
Jon had facilitated plenty of fired and unfired sculpture, but had never combined the two mediums in one piece. Eastnor Pottery now has two weeks in which to fire the children’s ceramic creations ready for the construction of the chair in the last week of term.

As the academic year comes to an end, staff at the Nursery are well aware of the children who naturally gravitate towards certain activities. In an attempt to engage a fair proportion of mainly boys who slip through the art/clay net, Jon set out his stall in the garden where the lads normally congregate.

The children were encouraged to throw, stomp and smear clay over a giant piece of perspex. The effect was very positive with participant numbers swelling to an all-time high!

Jo, Alex, Corrine and Becker took advantage of our 1.5 hr coiling taster workshops.
The friends were holidaying in the Ledbury area and fancied a bit of clay relaxation. We’ll now fire their masterpieces and send them on to them in a few weeks time.
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For the second year running we had the pleasure of hosting Bonnie’s birthday party at the studio.
The delightful group of young ladies made surfing dudes, riding clay waves produced on the potter’s wheel. The designs were extremely imaginative and very well executed. One of our personal favourites (although it was very hard to choose) had to be a surfing Lady Gaga (pictured)
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