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HOST CALENDAR PHOTOCONTEST WINNERSThe Tracker Group rose to the challenge in the summer when the 20 children spent a day snapping in Five photos by the Tracker children were selected by Host to appear in their 2007 community calendar, (which is currently available from Host) alongside pictures by much older and more experienced photographers. Shari Baker, who is a project worker on the Tracker Project, is delighted with the outcome: “It’s wonderful news having five photographs in this year’s Calendar. The children were so excited when we started taking pictures in the park for the competition, and now are positively buzzing in anticipation of hanging a Host Calendar on their wall. It has been great working with Jon and Rosita at Host and we look forward to more of the same next year.” The winning Tracker photographers are: Brithany Haynes, Ajmal Ditta, Joseph Davies, Renoy Parkinson and Rajjak Ahmed. Their winning photographs can be seen below.
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A Wild Summer.... A group of 16 children from Space2’s Tracker Club were thrown in at the deep end over the summer holidays 2006 when they spent three action-packed days in the Peak District. In late July the children were whisked off, straight after school, to Lockerbrook Farm, near Bamford, and plunged into a variety of new sports and outdoor events including bouldering, weaselling (squeezing through tight spaces in between large rocks), abseiling off bridges and rock climbing. |
In addition to physical activities the children worked as teams on ‘the beer crate challenge’ which involved constructing, and balancing on, high towers made from beer crates in order to rescue a teddy bear. The activity was designed to encourage them to work together and support each other by building on their individual strengths.
The three-day residential finished off with a massive water bomb fight between the adults and the children!
Playing for time..
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The Tracker kids had the privilege of meeting, and playing with, three distinguished musicians from the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition back in the summer term. This was the first ever education outreach programme organised by the competition and the day started with the arrival of a full-sized grand piano which had to be carefully transported into the main hall at Bracken Edge Primary School. The group was joined by professional pianist Ben Frith and the internationally acclaimed Gould Piano Trio. They learned about time signatures, how to follow a rhythm using shakers and tappers that they had made in previous work shops, and even had an opportunity to conduct the trio themselves! |
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Dame Fanny Waterman, OBE, who founded the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition back in 1963, was very impressed with the children’s performance and one of the children, Jamie Marshall, even attended the final of Competition itself on 22 September. When asked what he thought about the music he said:
“The first piece was relaxing, the second was a bit hyper. It was the best classical music I've heard and Mr Williams would love it"
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Den Build Movie Premiere
Wet and windy is how most of the Tracker kids describe the Den Build Residential! But the movie premiere screening at Bracken Edge was a lot more fun. The children spent the session decorating the screening room with welcoming signs and rehearsed their introduction. Parents loved seeing the movie and were able to take home a copy on DVD.
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Mural Project
October Half Term 2007 for the Tracker participants meant a creative workshop to develop material to go on a large gable end at Woodland Mount pocket park off Spencer Place in Chapeltown. The mural was generously supported by the Co-op (United Co-op), and is themed around ideas of co-operation. The idea is that the children will devise mythical / fictional flags and slogans of their own that we can then interpret on a large scale for a wall that celebrates a perplexing mix of new nations!
In 2006 Space2 in partnership with the Leeds Primary Care Trust (PCT), Graphic Design students at
The university students worked with the Tracker children, documenting their response to a series of games and arts activities. The photographs, drawings and writings captured during this ‘consultation’ period were then used to create the core issues in the booklet.
Throughout the project the children were the main contributors, they oversaw the design development and also benefited from a trip out to the university to explore the photography studio, screen printing department and meet the design students in their studios.
This project was made possible with funding from the PCT
As part of the Space2 project 'Get Stuffed' (a project to raise awareness about the dangers of obesity) the tracker group took part in an exciting Supermarket Dash workshop at ASDA Supermarket in Pudsey Leeds!
The children will be split into teams and given £100 (donated by ASDA) and set a timed challenge to fill their trolleys with healthy food. They also tried out a special ‘weight suit’ designed to help them understand the impact obesity can have on their physical, emotional and mental health.
As part of the project, the children are also working alongside graphic design students from Leeds Metropolitan University and designer Andy Edwards. They are gathering information for a booklet about healthy eating and obesity, copies of which will be distributed to primary and secondary schools across Leeds.
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Click on the link below to view the challenge given to the Tracker participants for their Supermarket Dash Workshop: