Art / Photography
Year Six pupils document their final year at primary school in photos
A group of pupils at a primary school close to the city centre have been documenting both their last year and the last year of the historic school.
St Michael’s on the Mount Primary School will be closing at the end of this academic year.
It will be reopening in September on the same site on Park Lane at the foot of St Michael’s Hill with a new name, Willow Park Primary School.
To mark the end of an era, Year Six children were given a camera which they have been using to take black and white photographs of what has been a very unusual final year.
The children have been unable to mix with other members of their school community but their teacher Lauren Springett says that they have coped extraordinarily well during their last year as primary school pupils.
“At the beginning, I never saw this as a ‘project’,” said Rob Browne (above), a teaching assistant in Birch Class, whose idea it was to hand the camera to the pupils, aged ten and 11.
“It was more of a photographic record of our final year together, something that we could all enjoy doing and then look back on at the end of a potentially difficult school year.
“It was only when I saw some of the images taken by the pupils that I realised we could have something unique that could be shared with others outside school.”
All photos by Birch Class at St Michael’s on the Mount Primary School
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