1Right. Are we all here?
2Okay.
3As you know, today Vivien is going to do a presentation on the hat-making project
4she did with her class during her last teaching practice. So...
5Over to you, Vivien.
6Thanks.
7Mr Yardley has asked me to describe to you
8the project I did as a student teacher at a secondary school in London.
9I was at this school for six weeks
10and I taught a variety of subjects to a class of 14 year old pupils.
11The project I chose to do was a hat-making project
12and I think this project could easily be adapted to suit any age.
13So, to explain the project...
14After we'd done the research,
15we went back to the classroom to make two basic hat shapes using rolls of old wallpaper.
16We each made, first of all, a conical hat by...
17well, if I show you now...
18cutting out a circle and then making one cut up to the centre
19and then... er... overlapping the cut like this...
20a conical hat that sits on your head.
21The other hat we made was a little more complicated.
22First of all, we cut out a circle again...
23like this...
24then you need a long piece with flaps on it.
25I've already made that bit which I have here.
26you bend the flaps over and stick them with glue or prittstick
27to the underside of the circle... like this.
28Again, I've prepared this so that I don't get glue everywhere.
29The pupils do, of course, so you need plenty of covers for the table.
30And there you have a pillbox hat as in pill and box.
31Now variations and combinations of these two hat shapes formed the basis of the pupils' final designs.
32The next stage of the project was the design phase
33and this involved, first of all, using their pages of research to draw a design of their hat on paper.
34That's the easy part.
35They then had to translate their two-dimensional design into a form to fit their head.
36I encouraged them to make a small-scale, three dimensional hat first
37so that they could experiment with how to achieve the form they required
38and I imposed certain constraints on them to keep things simple.
39For example, they had to use paper not card.
40Paper is more pliable and easier to handle.
41They also had to limit their colours to white, grey or brown shades of paper
42which reflected the colours of the buildings they were using as a model for their hats
43and they had to make sure their glue didn't show!
44Well, it was very enjoyable
45and just to give you an idea of what they produced,
46I've brought along three hats to show you.
47This one here is based on a circular stairway in an old building in London.
48It uses three pillbox hats, one on top of the other.
49This was designed by Theresa.
50Here's another one that has a simple strip going round the base of the hat
51but has then gone on to add strips of paper that come out from the base
52and that meet at the top of the hat - rather like a crown -
53making a fairly tall hat.
54This was made by Muriel.
55And lastly, there's a combination of the pillbox or single strip around the base
56and then the conical hat shape on top to form a castle turret.
57This was made by Fabrice,
58and there are many more that I could have brought.
59Thank you, Vivien.
60That was most interesting.
61Now what we can learn from this...