Between May and July 2024, Reading Museum worked with St John’s Primary School’s Year 4 classes on the Arctic Mirage Project.
The aim was to use Julian Grater’s beautiful art exhibition hosted by the museum to inspire the pupils to think about the Arctic, Inuit culture, climate change and how art can help us understand and change the world.
Over the course of 3 months, the Museum and the school worked together in several fun sessions and the children created some truly wonderful things in response to what they learned.
A big thank you goes to St Johns’ incredible teachers who nourish the children’s talent and enthusiasm so effectively!
Output of the Project
- Exhibition event
On 5th July, the teachers and pupils of Pelican and Nightingale Classes, invited the Museum's staff to an exhibition event. See more in the video below.
St John's Primary's Exhibition Event
- Climate Change Leaflets
We asked the children to design leaflets to sensitize people about Climate Change and call for their action.
Follow the link below to download and see some of the wonderful leaflets they created. More are on display at Reading Museum. Impressive!
St John's Climate Change Leaflets
- Facts Post Cards
Julian Grater’s work inspired the children to find out more about Greenland and about life in the arctic.
These are some fact post-cards they created to share what they learned.
St John's Facts Post Cards
- Art Work inspired by Julian Grater and Kenojuak Ashevak:
After seeing Julian Grater’s painting and drawings, the children created beautiful portraits of their friends some of which are on dispaly at Reading Museum.
They also decided they wanted to learn more about Innuit culture and art.
The works of Kenojuak Ashevak inspired some very colourful drawings: follow the link below to see them.
St John's Art Works
- Creative writing about the Arctic:
The children’s talent doesn’t stop with drawing and painting! Each pupil created their own short story about the Arctic inspired by the project.
Only a few could fit in our display case in the Museum, but you can read the others following the link below. It is worth it!
St John's Stories
