Last year, during transition, the whole school on Fen Street and Countess Way took part in The National Gallery’s Take One Picture competition. The painting which inspired our learning journey throughout transition was ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’ by Thomas Gainsborough.
We noticed that Thomas Gainsborough’s painting was set on a farm, which reminded us that there used to be a farm where both the Brooklands Farm schools now stand. Throughout the Project, children and parents worked with the art teachers and their class teachers to create pieces of artwork, which represented the story of Brooklands Farm – what our landscape was like in the past, what it looks like now in the present and what we thought it might look like in the future…
We then created a huge collage of all the work on our 3 Brooklands Farm ribbons for the final piece.
Our work won the competition and is now being exhibited in The National Gallery in London!!
I was very privileged to be able to attend the launch party last week, when the exhibition officially opened! I had a great night, meeting some of the people who organised the exhibition and seeing some of the other schools’ work. But my favourite part was walking into the exhibition and seeing our school’s artwork on the wall of The National Gallery – it looks amazing!!! Here it is…
Please go and visit The National Gallery this summer to see our work on display in the ‘Take One Picture exhibition. If you do visit, we would love for you to take a photo of yourself in front of our work and bring it to school in the first week back so we can create a display in school of our amazing achievement!
Well done Brooklands Farm!!!
