Bike Morphing - Larkmead School - Creative Partnership Project

A Creative Partnership project with Larkmead School, Abingdon 

over a period of 2 terms exploring creativity in the classroom context in

Geography, French, English, Drama, and Dance

can we fully engage students

of all abilities and

backgrounds in learning and

thinking through doing?

"Everyone looks forward to lessons including teachers. Everyone is smiling. Even teachers

enjoy lessons"

......below are some examples of the work produced

ENGLISH 

"We were really surprised and excited when we came into English and saw a bike music

making machine

it's a bike .... that's just weird"

Performance poetry, dance and sculpture bicycle

 A Haiku Wheel

The Island Stories Bicycle

The point of the story wheels was to get the
pupils to outline a small story in as many pieces
of paper as they could fit onto a bike wheel.
They did this in a way which was both creative
and required people to use their initiative.

FRANKENSTEIN
" Frankenstein out of bike parts. Back to life".

Electricity from Pedal Power

Young people thought about the ways a

bike part could be used for making something else work, to create something else with gears

to power something.

Spiral text Wheel

FRENCH

"We learnt about France in a funnier and more interesting way"

Fernand Leger inspired Art

More Fernand Leger inspired Art and  Tableaux Vivant

" I am seeing the class doing something I don't normally

see and I like this. doing this kind of activity. Seeing a different side to them.

I now want to use more art and drama in my French lessons"

GEOGRAPHY

"Our Lessons are more creative. It sticks in your head. We had to try and make a map of China

from Bike Parts. It was fun. Remember it. Look forward to lessons. 

I really liked making the map of China out of

bike parts"

Bits of Broken Bicycles

Map of China

The practitioners have shared with the school a love of learning and their creative practices

proving to young people that creativity goes beyond school and that resourcefulness/creativity

can make you enjoy life and learning.

The practitioners have been able to introduce a new set of languages into traditional subjects.