Each school and youth group involved in Go Safari Northampton has decorated a small safari animal sculpture. We’re delighted by the creativity and enthusiasm shown and the mini parade is about to be unleashed.
See how many mini sculptures you can spot – download a map showing the mini sculpture locations.
We held a competition and the children designed how we should look and why. We thought all about how important 2012 was for the country and went for a sparkly diamond design. We had a few happy accidents along the … Continue reading
We were inspired by the unpredictability of long term childhood illness and this is reflected in the chaotic patterns on the lion. The handprints represent unity, friendship and celebration of siblings within the group. The musical notes and butterfly represent … Continue reading
The design is mainly based on ideas from from the children. Many of them created intricate designs which led us towards choosing a stimulus on Indian textiles. The children then chose a design to build their own ideas on, so … Continue reading
With ideas put forward by parents, carers, staff and children we decided that Bellinge Community Pre-School would like everyone to share and see the bright and talented hands of the future! We all need a helping hand throughout our lives!
We have been inspired by our elephant’s natural environment and the other animals he lives alongside. We chose bright and vibrant colours to reflect the exciting, lively and fun learning environment at Bridgewater Primary School. Website: www.bridgewater.ik.org
Our elephant shows the links we have with Kimnyak Primary School in Tanzania. One side shows the children’s ideas of Bugbrooke while the other depicts our learning about Tanzania. We will send photographs of the elephant to the Tanzanian school … Continue reading
To commemorate a summer of Great Britain at its best, our Key Stage 2 children used ideas from Olympic events to create their own colourful designs; thinking about how these events bring people together. The rhino is painted to represent … Continue reading
To commemorate a summer of Great Britain at its best, the children in Key Stage 1 studied the Crown Jewels and placed jewels, on stencilled gold shapes inspired by some of the major pieces in the crown jewel collection. A … Continue reading
Our design was inspired by photographs, film and children’s drawings brought back from a recent reciprocal visit to Budaali Primary School (our Global School Partner in Uganda). We wanted to create an artwork that explored our similarities and differences but … Continue reading
Our design is based on King Kong on top of the Empire State Building. Our creative interpretation is based on famous Northampton icons: our gorilla wears a Saints Rugby shirt and is climbing the Northampton lift tower. Every child created … Continue reading
At Bellinge we embrace new technology. When it came to each child representing themselves ‘through’ our elephant, they chose to utilise ‘computer art’ to express themselves on our elephant! The ‘Belephant’ is an amalgamation of two giants; the colossus of … Continue reading
The diverse natural environment around Flore provided the inspiration for this design. The final image has been drawn from our children’s individual designs and includes representations of a variety of flora and fauna as well as local habitats such as … Continue reading
The skills required to complete our elephant range from painting, model making, silk painting, batik and jewellery making. These skills have been delivered via art lessons and whole class projects have come together for an impressive and highly decorative piece … Continue reading
Our design was inspired by the camouflage of African animals. The children of Rowan class used colourful animal prints to cover the sculpture.
We held a competition and this is the winning design, created by Eleanor Charnley in Class1 RMc. The faces painted depict staff and children at the school from Reception to Year 6.
Children were initially inspired after looking at art work used most notably on canal boats. They were captivated by the layers of colour, shapes and vibrancy of this traditional painting technique. They used this technique in painting bright, bold colours … Continue reading
Our elephant has a very regal appearance. The design was created after a whole school competition and a collaboration of the children’s ideas. The elephant is adorned with diamonds to mark the Jubilee and he proudly wears our school crown. … Continue reading
This bright design was made by a nursery child Ozzy Kennedy. She is a little girl who loves being outside, especially at Forest Schools and was inspired by this. All Foundation children and our O.S.P have worked together to apply … Continue reading
Our rhino is inspired by our topics this term ‘Walking through the Jungle’ and ‘Amazing Animals’. The rhino has been split into approximately 130 small squares and each square has been decorated with a different animal pattern by all of … Continue reading
The design was created by the Reception class at Kingsthorpe Village Primary School in response to learning in class about endangered species, and gave the children the opportunity to work together on a large scale project.
Our elephant has been collaged with a selection of mini-elephants designed by the children on the theme of Great Britain as this year has both the Olympics and the Jubilee. Every child in years 5 and 6 has completed an … Continue reading
Our hippo design was inspired by all things British and all the things our children feel represent the school at its best. The final design is an amalgamation of these ideas and was created by children from years 3 and … Continue reading
Throughout the summer term, each class has been learning about the Olympics and this provided the starting point in our design process. Class 2 and Class 3 also studied The Lion King and carried out research about African animals. They … Continue reading
Every child in school was given the opportunity to create a design for our lovely gorilla. Most children chose a nature theme, so we decided that this had to be the theme for our gorilla. We hope she will come … Continue reading
We invited all the children in the school to come up with a design for our elephant. Choosing a final design proved to be very difficult as the children came up with so many wonderful ideas.
Stamp Out Hate Crime responds to youth concerns and the campaign is out of respect for Natasha Warnes who died in 2011 after being bullied. Leah named the elephant Unique because it’s wrong to tease people for being different. Website: … Continue reading
The students of Northgate School Arts College, aged between 11-16, collaboratively designed a range of ideas in celebration of the schools bi-centenary. Website: www.northgate.ik.org
Our children were inspired by the natural beauty of a tropical environment. They used oil pastels to explore shapes, colour and patterns found in nature. Every child in year three contributed to our finished piece.
Our school is situated in a beautiful garden in a lovely Northamptonshire village. Our pupils love the trees in our garden and wanted to create a leafy camouflage for our gorilla. Each of our 62 pupils used a leaf template … Continue reading
Imagine an elephant, lost and walking through Britain. How would it camouflage with its surrounding so that it wasn’t noticed? On its journey to Northampton, our elephant has secretly stomped through central London and then through our beautiful countryside without … Continue reading
Our school’s elephant is based on the winding paths of our exciting learning journey. Words generated by the pupils that remind them of their personal journey were artistically intertwined with footsteps. This represents each child’s unique education experience throughout the … Continue reading
“I had a jewellery box with a flower design on it, which was given to me by friends I miss in Australia. I liked the design on the box and this reminded me of them and this became very special. … Continue reading
The children were inspired by our topic of animals and particularly why animals have so many different patterns. We decided to choose the children’s favourite animals and depict their patterns on our elephant. Website: www.springlaneschool.co.uk
African and Indian elephants and their habitats were the inspiration for our design. The artwork, flags and the physical landscapes, were used as well as facts about the elephants. Website: www.springlaneschool.co.uk
We held a design an elephant competition for the whole school to participate in and our finished elephant is a combination of the most creative ideas. Our design includes a paper collage blanket and an overall theme of a ‘bling’ … Continue reading
We collected headlines from newspapers that related to our school and our local community. These have been cut out and used to decorate the elephant in order to create a record of what happens in a snapshot of time.
The children had many ideas which resulted in us not only painting and decorating the elephant, but also making mini elephants with milk cartons. We finally decided to create an Indian elephant and painted the base in dark brown acrylic … Continue reading
The year 6 children worked on numerous ideas for our school design. We wanted it to be a collaborative effort for the entire school. The winning choice is a jungle design with every child creating an element of the design … Continue reading
Our elephant was designed by the Grange School Arts Council. They chose to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee by decorating our elephant with a Union Jack.
With London hosting the 2012 Olympic Games and the media focussed on this very important event, we decided to create an Olympic elephant using the different flags to represent each country competing in the 2012 Olympic Games. Website: www.weedonbecprimary.co.uk
Our design is inspired by our resident artist Lilly Gardener. We have chosen an elephant to support our school’s concern for this endangered species. By sketching and painting our designs, we are encouraging the protection of wildlife and natural habitats … Continue reading
The children in Year 3 and 4 have just participated in a residential where they stayed at Ilam Hall in Derbyshire. We have drawn a version of the OS map of the area onto our elephant, to remind us of … Continue reading
Our Foundation stage children have Eric Carle books and have also been learning about colour-mixing. Their design included many colours, so we decided to use tissue paper, roughly torn and overlapped to mix colours. We then added beads, glitter and … Continue reading
The school ran a competition over the Easter holidays for the children to design our elephant sculpture on a theme of their choice. The winning entry was by Aston Cox who created an animal themed elephant. The school staff voted … Continue reading
Our elephant was created from the children’s designs using only red, white and blue paints. Key Stage1children have been studying Britain in 2012 and the children were inspired by the Olympics and the Jubilee.
As gorillas are endangered though loss of habitat the children used decoupage to return some habitat back to our gorilla.
The school council ran a school competition to design an elephant. The winning design was by Jenson Osborne in year 6 – it is a colourful, spiral psychedelic-style design with our school logo at its centre.
