Helensburgh to Kilcreggan to Loch Lomond and Back

Well, it started in the P6 classrooms of John Logie Baird, then the GP room of Rhu (General Purpose room filled with laptops, musical instruments and books - heaven!), then rushing round Garelochhead, Kilcreggan, Rosneath, Luss then last day but not least, the dining hall of Cardross! Big schools, wee schools, round about and over the hill schools, loch side schools, centre of town schools, hill-side schools, 'nearly in a wood' schools...It's been a very varied geographical journey so it has, and very exciting too.

I feel like an intrepid explorer myself as I gallavant from one school to the next - as artist Val put it from her Kintyre visit, it's wonderful being able to see the different journeys that each student experiences on their way to school, what they can see, hear, do and notice on the way, and how one student's route to school can be so different to someone else's!


This is a Memory Map from John Logie Baird Primary - The blue line is a bit faint on the actual town map, but can you see that the blue line on this memory map is a very good re-drawing (freehand!) of this student's route to school?

Here's another great 'memory map' from John Logie Baird - You can see the redrawn route better with purple!

Check out the drawings below for pictures of fantastic homework; maps of the route to school using memory, real maps and photos/drawings done for homework; great postcards and students being completely absorbed in the project - exciting stuff!


Using Homework and Classwork to develop into postcards and memory maps.

Terrific homework of 4 things seen on the way to school.

Some more terrific homework and the developing memory map and postcard.

Brilliant memory maps show how different every pupil's journey to school can be!



Rhu's postcards which will be sent to Ardrishaig or Lochnell primary schools.


The backs of the postcards in order - can you find the right stories to the right picture postcard?



This student took some great photos and as you can see from the drawing above, did a great drawn copy of the entrance to school! Great perspective!

This has to be my favourite drawing of a church! It looks so alive doesn't it?!

This student has drawn some great people they see on the way to school! Who do you think they are?

I'm learning so much about Argyll and Bute just be looking at everyone's drawings, maps and postcards. Not forgetting what a talented bunch all the pupils are who I've met so far!

Well done everyone! Let's see what the next week of drawing brings!
Best for now, Jenny Soep

Zoom! Zoom! Doodle Earth Artists!!

Greetings fellow Earth Dwellers! Ever been curious about where you live, and whether others live in a place just like yours? Ever wondered if your school is the coolest, most interesting school on the planet, or if other pupils have a different but 'just as cool' school as you? Are you up for an adventure into a different type of learning, where everybody gets to join in the arty fun?

Val O'Regan, Michelle Letowska and Jenny Soep are the 3 artists who will be travelling around schools in Argyll and Bute to spread drawing fun UP and DOWN and ALL AROUND your classroom.

The project this year is to see how your school is different from other schools in the big ol' county of Argyll and Bute: is your school in the town, in the country, up a tree, down a rabbit hole? How do you get to school - plane, train, car, scooter, bicycle or your mighty springy feet? What do you see on the way? If you were directing someone from your house to the school, what landmarks would help them find their way?

Like Google Earth, we will be zooming in to see where you live, how far away it is from every where else, in particular your exchange school, and look at how your school might be different from them. We'll be playing some fun drawing games that will help us look at 'the bigger picture' and how to 'zoom in' on details, and after all the arty madness you'll be making beautiful postcards to put in a big special sack to send to your exchange school. Then you can wait to see what your exchange school will send to you! Whose special sack of postcards will be the best? Whose postcards will be the most bright, the most colourful, the best souvenir of where you live?

Grab your coloured markers and let's all go drawing mad!