The Grand Reveal

We were finally able to reveal the A to Z of Windsor wall hanging to the pupils and the parents at school

It is now off on a Parish Tour - this is it's first stop, and the local Church

And it is off to Windsor Arts Centre, the Library, the Museum, The Household Cavalry's Church, and finally a week at . . .  WINDSOR CASTLE before coming back to school in September

POST SCRIPT:

Front page of one local paper

And page three of the other

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not finished, but getting closer

The A to Z wall hanging is now assembled, and the the binding is half attached on 3 sides.  It's too heavy for the plan of Velcro tabs so I'm rethinking the top.  Friday is getting scarily close!

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not finished, but closer

The A to Z wall hanging is now assembled, and the the binding is half attached on 3 sides.  It's too heavy for the plan of Velcro tabs so I'm rethinking the top.  Friday is getting scarily close!

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Windsor A to Z Project

 The blocks are still coming in: 22 letters so far, and three of the corner stones.

I've embroidered the details and the contributers' names under each one, and stitched them on.  We had a summer fate at school and had them pinned to a display board - I didn't think to get a photo, but my glamorous assistant did - thank you Claire!

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More A to Z blocks

These arrived at the school office today:

Arent they great!


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Final A to Z session

The last A to Z session was held today - it went really well with some more great ideas.

If you haven't read about this before, read on for a brief summary:

Blocks are being created by parents and children, governors past and present, and staff at Trinity St Stephen School.  30 blocks, celebrating the children's choice of icons of Windsor, will be put together in an A to Z wall hanging.  Each A to Z block is based on the child's drawing, and created by parent and child/ren using felt and assorted 'stuff'.

Four additional blocks are being made to show the two Windsor churches associated with the school (Holy Trinity Church and St Stephen's Church), the school itself , and to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

Once completed, the Wall Hanging will go on a Parish Tour: being displayed at the two churches, Windsor Library and Windsor Museum, The Fire Station Arts Centre, and, very excitingly, within Windsor Castle itself, before being returning to our school to be hung in the school reception area.

The Windsor A to Z page has photos of all the currently completed blocks as well as some as they were being created - please visit and tell us what you think

Thanks

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A to Z Project Progression

 We had our penultimate A to Z session on Saturday - and what a great collection of blocks are being worked on . . .  As usual, I didn't get picture of them all, but the ones I snapped . . .

H for the Copper Horse

 G for Guards

Y for Yummy Mummies (and they will have yoyos!!!)

And K for Knight. 

 

 Now I have to add something about this one.  If I tell you the child doing this is 6, you will assume (I think) that mum has taken the child's idea, and is working from a reference book - so I have also taken a photo of his original drawing - how awesome is that!

And totally unrelated, I am so glad that to go to work I turn left of of my road . . . if I turned right this is what I would have been joining on Friday!

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Wednesdays In Windsor

We had a great group of working this week for the A to Z project.  All but one family had attended before, so there wasn't so much for Claire and I to do in the way of explaining, so I managed to get plenty of photos this week.

This is block is P for Park - with a witches hat, slide, trees, flowers, birds and clouds - N and N stitching down some of the details

J for Jubilee River.  Here N is doing some really neat stitches: I think I need to borrow him to teach some of the adults!

 A and his mum and brother have the letter N, and are working on Windsor by Night, - they have picked some really bright colours to show up against the night sky.  I think I might introduce them to glow-in-the-dark thread!

O and his mum got the letter O, and have chosen to show the Olympic Rowing which will be held at Dorney Lake near to Windsor.  Lovely snipping for the sun's rays there O!

The lovely G who isn't even old enough to come to school yet is attending every week as mum is helping deliver the classes - here she is sewing cherry blossom onto her patch for the trees in Alexandra Park

H and L have the letter R and have chosen Royalty.  There is a castle, a corgi, and Will and Kate holding hands - here I caught H stitching the castle to the background, great choice girls.

 This project is turning out to be so much fun!



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Windsor A - Z project (week 4)

The families working on the A to Z project have been doing really well - the children's pictures are being faithfully converted into felt pictures

These are today's creations

J for Jubilee River

R for Royalty

(Kate and Will and a corgi outside the castle!)

T for Trinity St Stephens's

 and this one is for Vansittart Park

(sorry Nina, cant remember if you had V or P!)

 

 I love this photo - just look at the adults concentrating!

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Windsor A to Z project (week 3)

I didn't get may photos from this session, but you'll see the Ice Cream and Ice Skates blocks, and the Bridges and Boats block as they progress, when I get a chance to take some snaps, meanwhile here is:
 
T for Trinity St Stephen's

 and V for Viaduct

 which becomes our first finish:

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Windsor A - Z project (week 2)

More fab creations from the kids and their parents this week:

B will be for Boats on the rover, going under the bridge

V for Viaduct is progressing well

Q for Queen had some serious planning

X for Alexandra gardens with the Windsor Wheel is starting to take shape

 And T will represent our school

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Windsor A to Z project

The school where I work wanted to make something to commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee this year, and after lots of thinking, we started today!

We have 26 family groups interested, and have allocated a letter to each family.  They are going to make a 10 inch block showing an icon of Windsor representing "their" letter!

For our first session, today, we started with 5 families, and used lots of felt, much of which was kindly donated by Daniel's, the Windsor department store, and we had two helpers, kindly donated by Legoland Windsor

Two families escaped before I managed to photograph their creations, but here we have

D for Diamond Jubilee
 

X for AleXandra Gardens (which hosts the Windsor wheel)

And C for Copper Horse and Castle

Thanks to our two Legoland volunteers - we hope you can come back!

This project is supported by the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead's Family and Community Learning scheme.


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