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Our Brief: To create a mosaic in the style of Gaudi (Barcelona) based on dragons, our Welsh heritage and the environment. |
This project has been supported by
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 and opened
officially on 4th May, 2006 by Jane Davidson (Minister for Education,
Life-Long Learning and Skills)
STOP PRESS - The project has won an award by the Welsh Heritage Schools Initiative and two pupils will travel to Brecon for the presentation in July. |
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This is our story ...
Please move your mouse over the square above. It will take about 20 seconds to download depending on the speed of your internet connection. If you want to watch it with Windows Media Player please click the dragon below!
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| What we have? A boring stone wall !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 1 Getting help. First of all we wrote to Pro-build. Please could they render the wall for us and make it smooth so we could stick some tiles onto it. Pr-build replied immediately and rendered the wall free of charge! Thank you! Now for the tiles!!!! We wrote letters to Global Tiles, B&Q, Homebase, Tiles R Us and Topps Tiles. Samantha Parrish from Global Tiles replied to us. She told us that she would let us have some broken coloured tiles and that she was an ex-San Sior headgirl!! When we heard that we were able to get the tiles Mr Jones took us to Global Tiles. It took us a while to find it. But there was a large sign outside! When we got there we sorted the tiles in to buckets. We had all different coloured tiles. We mostly had blue, white and very little red. When we got back to school we had to count them all out and we sorted them out into there colours and sizes. It took us ages to sort the tiles out but with a lot of hard work we had them sorted out in no time .After we had finished we took them up to the school's garden shed in buckets . Then Barclay's Bank telephoned the school. They had heard of the project and wondered if we needed any help. They decided to sponsor the project and gave us £500! Thank you Barclays Bank! There was no stopping us now......
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2 The inspiration Click on the Welsh flag for the story behind the mural. Click on the dragon below for the history behind the art.
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Planning
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| We drew squares on the wall ready to transfer the design onto the wall | Transfering the desig from the paper to the wall proved to be difficult and so we tried to copy the design free hand. | |
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| After drawing the outline in chalk we used an aerosol can to go over the outline. | We then put some detail on the drawings | |
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| Ready to start tiling tomorrow! | A few days later the white Saxon dragon is taking shape! | Building the castle walls of Dinas Emrys |
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Finishing touches.... |
Jane Davidson, Minister of Education and Lifelong Learning, opens the mural... |
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We
would like to thank the following for helping us with our project: Pro-build, Llandudno Global Tiles, Mochdre Barclays Bank, Llandudno Ceip Gayarre School, Barcelona
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