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This Extraordinary ground breaking project is appreciated by the schools we have worked in and is a combination of learning about the science of climate change and the art of making that information alive and present in a school with a lasting interactive art installation

The school in Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire will be finished soon and pictures will be available soon

Mathry school Pembrokeshire. Climart 1

A 5 day participatory workshop with infants and juniors. One day planning and 4 days construction

What will we come up with? lets start with what the children and the school has done and with arts projects and environmental awareness Then show them some of our work and then they wanted a Giant Earth Goddess rocking the world in her arms driven by a wind mill

What is the brief . Well it should say something about the students care and concern for the environment. It should last for a generation . it needs to be wind powered as wind is a constant part of our environment. It should stand out from the background but not ignore it. It should use as many recycled materials as is practical. it has only 4 more days to be constructed and finished. Later we can add growing willow when the conditions are right for planting it. Everyone in the schools gets to work on it in some way.

Somewhere I have an old bicycle Toby could make that into windmill surely but will it drive the rocking arms?

I can't find my old hot water tank . Great Tim has got one maybe the face could be made from that.

The next school we worked in with this project was Llanllwchaearn School near Newquay, Ceredigion

The Small World approach was a participatory process which enabled the children to come up with a proposal for a response to climate change

They chose a shelter solution with panels comprised of things that would be a mix of recycled objects such as cans, plastic bottles and bottle tops as well as panels of natural materials like leaves, straw, wood shavings etc.

The igloo type shelter was to have a tunnel access and another door that would also act as a shade.

The cars were there to remind them of CO2 output and the track spelt this out to re enforce this idea. The weaving was for the tunnel

CO2 side with milking parlor effect. Look there is a water butt and a down pipe made from water bottles

just how waterproof will it be with a recycled umbrella roof and gaps in some of the panel walls?

Below are photos of Climart 3 Ysgol Y Ddwylan Newcastle Emlyn, Climart 4 Tegryn and Climart 5 Pennar

Here we reccycled two wooden bench structures and joined them with a stretched play netting hammock type thing.

Mr Urdd featured in their desiign and was included as a pannel along with a recycled plastic slide. A message in a bottle wall invented and two boat sails used as a shelter roof.

The fence behind the structure was covered in a big driftwood salmon figure in a woven willow and rope river.

The windmill drives a plywood cut out boy waving ( spot the cut out) there is also a wind sock as Tegryn's main climatic feature is the wind. The greenhouse / shelter has recycled pop bottle walls containing climate change awareness messages. The participants drew creatures on plywood and painted them. The plywood shapes were cut out with a jigsaw and fixed to the vegetable bed wall. The creatures represented the childrens' idea of bio diversity in a post climate change Wales. Water is collected from the roof and contained in a drum with a tap.

This is the last school in this series of funding. Please give more funds as this is a very educative and hugely popular project.

Pennar children chose to make a shelter using recycled milk bottles pop bottles a recycled logo in bottle tops. The eco message in a bottle theme is also carried on here.

The structure is made from rough fir poles dug into the ground and the roof is turf cut from the school grounds. As climate change may take different forms the children felt that to build a shelter from increased rain would be good but also to hedge their bets a shelter from more sunny days would be good too.