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The Prizes

You and your School’s artwork will be put on display in The Saatchi Gallery, one of the best known Art galleries in the country, plus art equipment will be won. The top three schools in each age category will go on display in the gallery and on the gallery’s website for votes from the public, that’s up to nine schools altogether! The finalists will be invited to the Gallery to receive their prizes at a special event and the winners announced. The overall winner will also have their image published and used buy ‘Wheelpower’, the charity.

The Competition

As many people in your school possible will create a painting, drawing or mixed media piece on A3 paper based on the forthcoming 2012 Paralympic games. The theme is "Movement and Independence". You may enter under 3 separate age categories; Years 3 and 4, 5 and 6, or 7 and 8.

The Charity

WheelPower’ is a registered charity that provides the necessary equipment, training and support for children and adults to access most sport, whatever their disability. It costs WheelPower £3,000 to provide a sports wheelchair, training and facilities for a disabled person new to sport. A Paralympic Athlete will visit the school that raises the most money overall.

Fundraising

Once everyone has finished their picture, the school or children decide which is the best design in each age category (or however many the school is entering, up to a maximum of three). These will then need to be copied and split into 12 sections so that a class or smaller group can redo each section using different colours from the original. This will then recreate the original design into a large 12xA3 montage. Each section can then be sponsored in order to raise money for ‘Wheelpower’. You will send us the final design, or designs, a photo of your school’s montage and your sponsorship money as your entry. Each school is allowed to send a maximum of three entries, one for each age category.

The Rules Bit

The children must still be in the correct year group when the winners are announced. The final designs and montages must be the sole work of the children in these age categories. Work can only be returned if it is accompanied with a stamped addressed envelope. The organisers reserve the right to use the final design in future publications and publish the runners up. as well as putting their work on public display.

Closing Dates

Your designs must be with us by Friday 19th March 2010. The nine finalists (3 in each age category) will go on the Saatchi Galleries website and in the gallery towards the end of March 2010. They will then be open to the general public to vote until the end of April 2010. The winning three and best overall design will be announced at a reception in mid May 2010. The work will be judged by Rachel Gadsden, and Annie Field, both eminent artists, as well as several other experienced professionals from Art education.

Work is to be posted along with cheques (made payable to ‘Wheelpower’) from the fundraising to:

Tim Perkins

Feltonfleet School,

Byfleet Road,

Cobham,

Surrey.

KT11 1DR

Useful Websites

These websites will give you more information or help you with your ideas and research for this competition.

http://www.wheelpower.org.uk/

http://www.wheelappeal.org.uk/

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/

t.perkins@feltonfleet.co.uk/ (email for more information about the competition)

Teacher's Notes

These notes are intended to support teachers in how they might run this competition as a project in school.

Cross curricular project— You may like to involve Science and Technology in this project and not only create your designs for the competition but look at the Science and Technology behind sports wheelchairs. Each wheelchair is designed specifically for each individual sport in the games. In Technology you can look at materials you might use to construct chairs for specific events and in Science discuss the aerodynamics and physics behind the Technology.

Art project over half or a full term— You may like to run this as an art project over half or even one full term, in either or all of the age categories. As a half term project, children could research their ideas and create an A3 design/painting over 3 weeks of lessons, including prep or homework. They then choose the best design in each class and split into 12 equal sections, recreating the original outline, but changing the colours, textures or tones. In groups or pairs they can then create one section of the winning design, each getting sponsorship to do this. This could be done over a full term, with more time given over to the design and making stages, with perhaps one child reproducing each section, rather than groups.

Art project as an Arts day, two days or a week— As a day activity, children could produce their designs in the morning, with resources provided, and then the montages could be made in groups in the afternoon. They could do this over two days, creating their designs on the first day, and making their montages on the second. They could do this project as part of an Arts week, with other Arts activities planned, relating to the Olympics.