Year 9 students +- 13 years old. 2014

As we are a new secondary school in the Whitsundays region of Qld, many students are learning the new skills and applying them to creative designs.The goal is to allow students  to work on various machines and power tools to develop skills that they can then apply to other situations later in their lives. It is wonderful that while doing so, they produce some amazing work. Some of the work shown
below:

The scallop

Dolphin

The Dragon

Turtle

Creativity 2015

A new year and new work. This year I will try place items on the blog of student work as well as work of fine craftsmen who enjoy the creativity of working with their hands. Enjoy

Crafts alive

Crafts alive

Keeping the crafts alive!

Year 10 Small bowl (300mm) with gold leaf 

As we progress further into the field of technology more and more emphasis is placed on the development of technology as a subject. This is a wonderful subject and best suited to students who have good analytic and deductive skills. However, there is still the need for students to develop good practical skills that they will be able to apply during the rest of their lives. As teachers we need to stimulate ours students to enjoy our classes and create a 'want' to be in them, to learn the skills that they can apply to other areas of their lives, whether that be professionally or as an art form or hobby. The idea of my blog is to find ideas that students will enjoy doing as projects and finding ideas from all the crafts people out there that can help stimulates their creative senses.If you have any good ideas or work to share, feel free to add to this blog, and together we can help encourage each other to keep the crafts alive.