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The Family Feast Finale!
What a sad day as we finished our Summer School but what a brilliant ending! All the young people had put their heads together and worked extremely hard with Sarah to create a feast and a half for the final BBQ. They did a fantastic job and shared their successes and achievements with their nearest and dearest with another guest appearance from Smurf!
During the feast and BBQ we held a small ceremony to give out some well deserved certificates! Well Done everyone!
Not only that we created a ‘Wall of Wonder’ this was directed to the parents and guardians of all the young people and to ask of there was anything that stood out for them. All were given Post-It’s so they could anonymously write anything they felt we needed to hear under the titles of – The Good, The Bad and The Learning. We’ve had a fantastic response – take a look at some of the feedback!
Our Feedback:
Quite frankly this has been an amazing summer school. It has been thoroughly enjoyed by students, the staff and all the companies who’ve very kindly supported us. From all of the Ashington Summer School Team a HUGE thank you for making this such a successful experience had by all. We hope to see you next year!
Today was THE day at Potts Print UK!!!
WOW!! What a fantastic time we’ve had today. Not only had we finished our comic yesterday, today was the day we get to see it printed and in our hands! Very exciting. However, that was not just it. This morning we arrived at Potts Print UK in Cramlington and met up with Ian White the Creative & Technical Services Director. When we arrived Ian took us all through the printing process producing huge plate sheets showing us all the exact way huge print runs are created. These printers are MASSIVE and can cost £1.5 million! It’s such a complex process but Ian broke it down all very easily and even finished with the Bieber!
Director Ian White
It didn’t end there! After our talk Ian took us through to the factory mezzanine where we could see the entire factory floor hard at work. There were machines, presses, printers galore!
Proper little VIP’s once more at Potts Print UK scanning the factory floor!
Check out what they were looking at, very impressive:
AND… guess what it didn’t even end there. Next we got taken around the factory floor and were told about all the machinery and what everything does. This is such a huge place!
After that the moment of truth… what DID OUR COMICS LOOK LIKE???
Our comics as we were told were printed digitally, Ian took us to the room where they were printed and we watched some of the copies coming through… HOT OFF THE PRESS!
After this our ever awaited competition. Through Summer School we set a challenge to create the best characters AND the winners were… Robbie! Scott! and Amy!!!!! Well done!
And finally… our comics were given out! They are AMAZING!!! Everyone quickly started looking for their own story:
Can we just add a HUGE thank you to everyone at Potts Print UK for helping us with this comic and particularly our tour and especially Ian White! (another legend)! It’s been a fantastic challenge creating this comic book and you’ve helped it come to life! Thank you!
Must complete the Comic!
Today was a very important day with a very important deadline. Everyone had to get their comic story completed by lunchtime. We were very thankful all the preparation work had been done yesterday but today a tiny bit of pressure was needed to get heads down and hands drawing… BUT GUESS WHAT!!! WE DID IT!!!
Take a look at our fantastic team of comic story creators and illustrators:
Hard at work
Main characters being created.
And we’ve done it!
Can we just add how proud we are of all our summer school students for getting this done on time!! Off to see it printed tomorrow at Potts Printers!!!
My Favourite things about Summer School by Emma Rennison
- I have three things that I love about Summer School:
Meeting the Dulux Dog
Playing Hoops
Making a Comic
Here are some of my favourite snaps from this week…
Enjoying the Sunshine!
How Cute!
I have really enjoyed Summer School, Thank you for having me!
Favourite times by Emily Straker
My favourite times from this Summer School are meeting the Dulux dog, going on the open top bus and visiting Northumberlandia.
My favourite photographs are…
Me, Emma and Sophia catching a few rays!
Meeting Smurf!
I really enjoy coming to Summer School!
My Favourite day at Summer School
Day two was my favourite day when I got to meet Jenny and the others. Also Day four because we took a trip out on the open top bus.
These are my favourite pictures…
Chips at the Corner Plaice
Our own private bus!
by Teilah May Mcall
Summer School Fun! by Jessica Gray
Summer School is kind of fun. You get to do lots of things like, go on an open top bus and go to lots of places all in one day.
Here are some of my favourite shots…
Chips at the Corner Plaice
Thank you for letting me come to Summer School, I dont like the idea of School in Summer! However I came to give it a try!
Thank you, Jessica Gray.
Favourite Time by Sophia Dwyer
We visited the Dulux factory and got welcomed by friendly Andy Jackson. Whilst at the factory we got a first class tour.
Don having a lie down.
Getting on with my work!
Some of my research journal work.
As you see after our tour we managed to meet a very special guest the one and only Dulux Dog.
Summer School Adventures by Shannon Callaghan
I loved it when we got pictures taken of each other during Hoops and Leopards was amazing.
Me beside my Granda’s Tractor
Me using Mark’s back as a desk!
Me and some of my work.
Thank you ever so much for looking after us!
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