Taleblazers Admin, behind the scenes!
With the heat of the summer holidays gently cooling, the start of the Autumn term began. The tasks and daily errands of my role as Business Manager varies so widely, but that’s all part of the fun. September is always a busy time for me, as the bookkeeper there’s a whole load of numbers to […]
The common blue damselfly
On a walk to a lake with a young person who was using a camera for the first time, excitedly crouching, zooming, snapping away. He photographed cow parsley, a passing puppy, daisies, obliging moorhens, oblivious ducks, bracket fungi, all sorts of colourful delights. On approaching the water we could see roaming dragonflies, too far away […]
Summer Treasures
When the humans are away the animals can relax! Here are some pictures and videos from our wildlife cameras from the summer break.
Arts Award and Why it is Great
“An artist is not a special kind of person but every person is a special kind of artist” – Hakim Bey. I love everything about the arts, I love viewing, watching and observing how people express their creative sides. From dance, music, drama, painting, creative writing, spoken word poetry, storytelling, sculpting, crafting, animation. Arts Organisations […]
Catching Butterflies
Earthworks last Saturday saw us focusing on the insect world, namely butterflies. Butterfly numbers are in decline and year on year there numbers seem to drop. Butterfly Conservation hold a Big Butterfly Count every July to get a wider picture of butterfly numbers. It is very easy to follow and you can count from your […]
All About the Plants
Last Saturday saw our May Earthworks and this time we were looking at plant life in the woods. Why look at plant life? Well, we need to create base line surveys of the species that we have in the woodlands so that we can monitor what happens over time. What changes, what plants die back, […]
Planting trees at Earthworks
Planting Trees is something that you do for your great great grandchildren. It won’t be within your lifetime you see that tree reach maturity. In the right conditions and given time that tree could become colossal and why wouldn’t you gift that to future generations? Our woodland at Treacle Valley has a lot of ash trees and sadly these trees need to be felled. We had a handful of them taken […]
Unconventional Portraits: Rice Mapping
Our Arts Award students created portraits of themselves via the medium of maps, inspired by the work of artist Grayson Perry.
My Arts Award
One of our students, ‘Kmoki’, has been studying anime for her Arts Award and we are delighted that she has agreed to share her work with us to complete her award. She has produced some very beautiful artwork for her project and we’re sure you’re going to love it. Well done, Kmoki!
Earth Hour | Environmental Awareness Animations
Our Arts Award students were challenged to create their own stop-motion animation based on the theme of environmental awareness in Torbay.