Art & Textiles - Campaign

In Class we have to put together a campaign in groups of 3-5. The campaign has to be on children's rights and it has to be inspired by one of the Unicef aims. (campaigns can be checked on www.unicef.org.uk) In our groups, we came up with the topic "health" and applied it in local and worldwide problems. Our worldwide problem was the lack of access to water & sanitation (which is one of the campaigns on the Unicef website) and our local problem was the right to be safe around others (which leads us onto our purple day).
We decided that its easier if we raise awareness to something local rather than worldwide because it applies to us more and people will be more interested in it.
We thought of the problems in our area and how it effects us.
We finally decided to do our raising awareness day on "knife crime" as its the most relevant to the area we live in and the problems going on around us.
As a fundraiser and a raising awareness day we decided to put posters up around the school and have a day where everyone comes in the colours purple & white.
We chose these two colours because they represent the messages peace, relaxation & loyalty.
as part of our planning, we have asked for a date to negotiate this with the head teacher so this day can actually take place in the nearby future. Within the next lesson, in our groups we had completed a brainstorm of:
• the tasks we would take on
• the people in our group
• our actual campaign
• the fundraiser we would hold
This brainstorm ws completed in our group and pictures of it ws taken. the pictures can be seen at the bottom of this post where i have made a slideshow.
In art we did a similar thing, we took a piece of work from rodchenko & popova each and changed it a bit so it fit our theme of campaign.
all of this will come together and complete our unit.