Kineton High School and Compton Verney's Sensing Vesuvius project.
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00:10 We have brought an actual painting from our Naples collection to the school.
00:16 So it's Vesuvius erupting at night by Valère.
00:20 So they've had it for a term and they've done lots of work based around the painting.
00:25 It's inspired them to do some models, inspired their science classes, their music lessons.
00:31 So they've been working really hard to do some creative work around the piece.
00:36 We feel very privileged actually that we've forged such a strong relationship with the gallery
00:41 that it's selected this painting for us to host at our school.
00:46 I'm also really delighted that the painting that's been chosen is such a dramatic one.
00:51 Having a volcano as the main subject of the painting affords us so much opportunity for cross-curricular work.
00:58 It's been really great to bring the students from science over to a different room
01:03 to see that science takes place in other departments, in the school, in other rooms.
01:08 And then to have it then as a backdrop for our lessons has been really brilliant.
01:13 So this painting has been fantastic for that.
01:15 It's helped us from year 7s, year 8s, up to GCSE and up to 6th form.
01:20 The way in which we can link in different ideas from the painting to different concepts
01:25 within their schemes of work within GCSE or A level all the way down to Key Stage 3.
01:30 We're doing a workshop with the students.
01:33 We've got Aaron McPeak who is an artist who has done a contemporary commission for our 7th in Naples gallery.
01:40 And he's hosting a workshop here with all the students, having a bit of fun.
01:45 They're doing like casting and some of these pieces will go on show in an exhibition at Compton Burnie.
01:51 So we've been looking at like different metal sculptures that Aaron's made that we can interact with
01:59 and he's helped us create some sculptures of our own that will hopefully be shown in Compton Burnie.
02:04 We've been making models with clay and then putting them into a mould to fill them in with plaster.
02:11 We've been practising making noise with the bowls and trying to make music.
02:16 We're smelling the smells which were linked to the pictures.
02:20 I was kind of inspired by the painting over there.
02:23 So I'm making a volcano and I'm focusing on trying to get the lava carving its way through the stone.
02:29 I like working with clay because it's just something that calms people and I also get calmed by it.
02:36 I enjoyed the sculpting because it was very different to what we normally do in art at school.
02:40 If my work was displayed at Compton Burnie I would feel really excited and very proud of myself getting there.
02:46 It's really amazing what they've come up with.
02:48 Some of the stuff they've done is just really inspiring and really creative, imaginative and they've just had fun really.
02:56 They've just enjoyed the process, been relaxed at school, had a play.
02:59 Yeah, it's been really fun.
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