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Organisation
English Martyrs School and 6th Form College
Catcote Rd
Hartlepool, TS25 4HA
01429 273790
Contact
Mike Brogan
Project partners
Manor College of Technology; St Hild’s C of E School; High Tundstall Science College; Brierton Sports College; Dyke House School; EM community partnership; St Bede Lanchester, St Bede Peterlee, Our Lady and St Bede Stockton; St Aidan Sunderland; St Anthony Sunderland; St Leonard Durham; Carmel Darlington; St Michael Billingham; St Robert of Mewminster Washington; University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Moorbank Botanical Gardens; OPAL
Brief description of project
This art and photography project brings students from 16 Schools across County Durham and the Borough of Hartlepool to use visual methods of investigation of air quality. It will form part of the ongoing OPAL environmental monitoring programme undertaken by Newcastle University. We will engage with the mentioned schools and community groups in a week long summer school that looks at lichen as indicators of air pollution. Following visits to various outdoor activities participants (between 6 and 10 from each school) will make works of art about what they have seen. The University will bring scientists to the school to explain how some of the lichen we anticipate seeing can indicate air quality – and we will investigate ways in which the knowledge we gain together from this can be disseminated amongst our broader community.
The aims of the project are to
Raise standards and expectations of the young people participating
Raise the awareness of scientists of the means of disseminating their scientific knowledge
Make full community involvement and access at each stage of the programme
Explore new ways of engaging across curricula of art and science.
Expected Outcomes, Success Criteria
At least 126 school students and 16 teachers participating
At least one community group participating
School visits to art exhibition
Lectures and workshops on lichen identification
Preview of exhibition for all participants’ parents
Method of dissemination and resources to be produced
DVD of the week’s activities for dissemination amongst
all schools' Web pages based upon some of the work
explaining: what we did, how we did it and why.
Aim at national press coverage for the event.
Exhibition open to the public for a minimum of one month
Related web sites
Additional information
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