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 This
is Sam. He is a magic man... a man of music, of theatre and opera...
a maker of strange and beautiful Jewish music.
But
to us, he is Mr Paechter ...otherwise known as Sam the clay man!
When
you come into our school, the first thing that you'll see is a wall
full of tiles which together say the name of our school - "Harehills
Primary School" and shows children holding hands. We're really
proud of it. Sam helped us to make it. Go down the corridor and
you follow more amazing tiles that Sam has helped us to make. Follow
the beautiful claywork all the way down to the clay area where there
is a group working with Sam now.
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Click
on the 'play' button to see a photo-gallery of the claywork
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"Pottery
is very good, it is excellent to do pottery ...it is fun."
says Akeela.
At
the moment Akeela is making a clay model of the local Mosque.
"I
drew the Mosque (on paper) first. It was really good. One person
made a castle and the other five people made Mosques. It is really
good to make a Mosque ...It is interesting. We put our thumbs inside
to make the domes. We drew the moon and stars on our Mosques. I
drew mine on the dome because I thought it might look nice."
Akeela
Anisa
agrees that it's great fun to work with clay... "I enjoyed
making the arched dome and cutting the hard clay with a knife!"
At
our school everyone gets the opportunity to work with Sam at least
once a year. Anisa continues..."When I was younger I made
a dinosaur and in Year Two, I made a clay figure of myself. In Year
Three, we made a life-cycle of an animal ...Oh, and in Year One
we made candle holders".
We'll
show you a gallery of the clay work soon, when it's ready that is!
In
the meantime, we just want to say, "Thanks for making our
school a great place to be in Sam!"
To
find out about the dance work of a child at Ebor Gardens, click
on the Red 2...
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