For this project were are working with the community to explore art in a variety of ways. Our group was partnered with The Valence School in Sevenoaks, sadly the school had pull out. Due to this as a group we had to find a new placement.

As i was not here for this lesson I've received information from the group on how they approached finding a placement. The group researched different placements around London and Kent. The group looked at schools Nursery to Secondary, they also looked at school for physical and learning disabilities, care homes, hospices, charities, organisations and foundations. Once the group had found a number of different options swiss cottage, Woodcote Priamry school, Beyond Autism, Linkprim, Northease School, The Holmewood School of London and Insightsesc. Liberty (a member of our group) sent an email to numerous places.

"To whom it may concern,

I'm a student at The BRIT School in Selhurst, and at this time of the year us as students are asked to be involved in a community based project.

I am one student from a group of lovely Year 12's who are supposed to be starting a project today with a special school for students with physical disabilities and complex needs, however unfortunately the school this morning have had to withdraw.

The aim for us 10 BRIT School students along with my teacher Claire Gildersleve, is to develop drawing-based workshops for people who need particular provision. Ideally we would visit the group of individuals we will be working with early on (next Tuesday or Friday would be ideal, but we could push it back a bit) and then we will spend some time back in our lessons generating ideas based on our experience of meeting our 'clients', and then in around the second week of July we will deliver the workshops to the people we have catered for.

Would there be any possibilities that we could run this project with your organiastion?

If you have any queries about our project and the logistics, please don't hesitate to contact me or my teacher at email: cgilders@brit.croydon.sch.uk. We will also make a courteous telephone call this afternoon to inquire further as to whether this could be a possibility.

Thank you for your time,

Kind regards,

Liberty Rose Cheverall

BRIT School Student." 

The group received many replies but were unsuccessful. We then received an email form Melissa Hendry who is Deputy Head Teacher at Red Gates Primary School, she sounded very interested. Melissa was very interested in meeting us and set up a meeting right away. We set up a meeting and visited the school on Friday the 10th of June. Melissa spoke about the school and how many of the children have autism on top of other learning difficulties. Melissa felt it best that we split up into groups of 2 and 3 as this would work much better with the children; this also mean that we could spread out to the hole of the middle school department and work will all 4 classes.The next step was to set up a meeting so we could see the school and speak to Melissa and the art coordinator.