School Workshops for Whalley Range Primary
Published on 18-09-2011 09:30PM
Primary schools in Whalley Range enjoyed workshops provided by Celebrate artists and poets and a local school workshops Friend's Group to create work to display at this year's school festival
The Friends of St Margaret’s Primary school ran workshop activities related to potatoes - to showcase at Celebrate this year, funded by Manchester City Council
Activities included
- practical outdoor sessions planting potatoes, and work with Forest Schools
- History workshops about potato growing in Whalley Range,
- Tithe maps - work with Tangmere Court residents,
- History of Irish connection to potatoes - feast and potato famine,
- water + waste, dandelion and burdock,
- History workshop - Irish population and migration in Whalley Range
Art work included
- potato prints/repeat patterns on paper,
- canvas bag decorating/potato prints on canvas banner,
- starch resist canvas squares/bags
Potato recipes included potato pakora cooked at the festival – along with delicious and healthy Potato and Nettle soup to keep out the cold!
The group took photographs of the activities for display at the festival and for future calendar pages.
