Chilton Generations Together Update October 2011

Pat Hollinghurst, Head at Chilton Trinity, has selected 4 final images for printing.
These will be prepared for print, printed on large scale aluminium panels and will be displayed in the new school building.  Those featured in the selected images will be contacted shortly. Exciting!

End of Project de-brief Weds 11 May

Together again: de-brief

It was great to get together again after the Open Day to share our ‘high points’, view Laura’s photos and discuss what to do with the material we’ve collected.

Keith, now a pro on the voice recorder, recorded this section for us!

High points from the Open Day

High points included observing how the setting up transformed the hall; the moment when everything seemed really ‘buzzy’; when our visitors entered and went from apprehensive to engaged and animated. 

‘High point of the open day, well there was so many, meeting my teacher from when i was at school and having a photo taken with him ( thank you Laura).

Meeting up with an old friend who i was at school with and haven't seen for 30 years, but i suppose the most memorable was getting involved with the project its self.  Believe me when i came to the first meeting i didn't think we will never do all that in 6 weeks, but my Dad gave me some good advice years ago, he said trust in human nature as no one really wants to let others down, do your bit and trust others will do theirs, and low and behold it all went so well' Tina Heath

Pat on the back

A reminder of the words we came up with at our first meeting to describe what we wanted our Open Day to be: creative, informative, relevant, progressive, creatively exciting, successful, welcoming, different, celebratory, inclusive, nostalgic, memorable, warm, comfortable, fun, active, something creating visual impact and buzzing.

We all agreed that we had achieved what we set out to do - fantastic!

Photos and film footage

Beccy took us through a slide show of Laura’s photos and we really enjoyed hearing some of the stories behind the pictures. Some of the original staff were there, posing with some of the first pupils. Also images of two brothers, one of whom now lives in America. 

We also enjoyed a quick look at the DVD. Not yet edited, but interesting to see how the tours really stimulated conversation, with debates over the old layout of the buildings. There was also footage of visitors showing their mementoes; a scrap book, a folk singing trophy and various school photographs.

  

Presentation at  School Assembly

The final end to our project will be when we present all our work to the school at morning assembly. All the students volunteered for this alongside Charlie and Keith. We spent the last few minutes of our meeting writing our presentation.

Keep building the wall of ‘memories’

Chilton Trinity has inspired great love and loyalty from its past and present pupil and staff and we hope the future school community will continue to add ‘memories’ to the wall!

Chilton Photo-booth

Chilton Mementos

Reflection of Open Day 5th March

Laura has now selected a number of people who attended the Open Day Event back on 5th March for rephotographing. Letters have been posted and emailed to those selected. Re sittings have been scheduled for Saturday 30th April and Friday 6th May.

Here are a few images from the Open Day Photo-booth where some core Group volunteers of the Project also took part. Some portraits and a mementos. All person/s featured shared a connection with Chilton School and wanted to be part of the project. The mementos brought, although only few, were significant in sentimental value but also depicted an era of the school reflecting educational achievements and activities of it's history, and a Scrap Book in particular that captured students past having the time of their life; shaping life long friends and teachers past that have been inspirational and remembered.

Chilton Generations Together: Volunteers

The Core Group as well as additional Volunteers get together for a celebratory photo and record of what they have achieved on the 5th March Open Day. As well as Workshop Coordinator, Sophy Layzell (front right) also included is Event and Project Coordinator of SAW Ltd, Beccy Swaine (back right).

Chilton Trinity Open Day Saturday 05 March 2011

Lots of work went into setting up the Open Day, a huge credit to all the intergenerational volunteers for making the day happen.
Thank you too to all our visitors who came with scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, old school photos, trophies and more!  It was fascinating to see the mementoes and the connections between people - old classmates, teachers and students from 30 years ago, multiple family generations who had all attended the school, future students coming to learn a bit about their new school, also a past student now living in America.

The tours were very popular with long waiting lists.  Many people wanted to have a last look round their old school before it is replaced.  Many memories and stories emerged as people once again walked familiar corridors and viewed the plans for the new building.

The memory wall grew as visitors recalled times past and items were added to our timeline.
Photographer Laura Rouse, assisted by Portia Saunders and Nisha Haq, was very busy in the photo booth taking some stunning photographs of visitors.

Laura setting up the photo booth

Sally Green's cakes were very popular as usual!

The Tours team setting up in the morning

Sharing scrapbook memories from schooldays past

Visitors of all ages

Volunteers hard at work

Chilton Memories - Nisha Haq Photography

Hi Everyone

Well Saturday 5th March was a success and Laura Rouse managed to capture great photos from the photo booth session on the day. It was a fun day and achieved nostalgia amongst visitors. Various people brought in mementoes that Portia and I photographed to document and when I had spare time I managed to take a few shots of what was happening to post here!

This photo was taken of the Chilton Memories wall where people wrote their favourite memory of Chilton Trinity. In post-processing this photo I layered various photos of this wall to create this effect and added a gradient layer and a dark gaussian blur. Hope you like it! More snaps of the day to come :D

Nisha

You're Invited to Chilton Trinity Open Day!

Post Your Chilton Memories

Hey Everyone!

We would like to know your Chilton Trinity School memories and use them for the open day Saturday 5th March. We're interested in whichever year you graduated from and and memories you have of this school.

Ways which you can share:
You can reply to this post by clicking on the comment box below (or clicking 'comments' at the bottom of this entry and posting your memory. If you have a Blogger, Google, LiveJournal, WordPress, TypePad, AIM, Open ID account you can sign in using these. However you can also post anonymously if you don't have these accounts and can choose to show your name.

Alternatively you can post on our Facebook Page and comment on our wall or discussions page.

Nisha Haq, volunteer and associate photographer.

First Workshop Photos :D

These are a few photos taken by Nisha Haq at the first meeting of the Chilton Generations Together project at Chilton Trinity school. Facilitated by Sophy Layzell we engaged in 'ice-breaker' activities as we had only just met that day and this helped us come together as a group.  Later we discussed plans for Saturday 5th March, open day at Chilton school to celebrate the history of the school.  Laura Rouse will take portraits of people and ex-students as an artistic input to a celebratory day.

This was an interesting day, especially learning about Chilton Trinity Technology College as this was the first time I had been to this secondary school. Not being an ex-student of this school I was engrossed by everyone's memories and thoughts and tried to capture these moments on camera.

New posts soon on the next meeting and updates to events this Saturday!

Tweedy Pie ice breaker game 

Our school year memories of Chilton Trinity.

 This was a fun exercise as it brought funny childhood memories!

Portia Saunders, peer volunteer associate photographer

Laura Rouse, Professional Photographer for Chilton Generations Together project.

Engaging in group discussion. :)

A pensive moment. :)

Sohpy Layzell, CGT project facilitator.

by Nisha Haq, volunteer and associate photographer :)

So What's This Project About?

Hi Everyone!

So this is the new blog where we hope to bring together various generations of students, ex-students and ex-staff from Chilton Trinity Technology College. We hope to share memories and stories both past and present from people in the community and ex-students from all generations. This is a Somerset Art Works and Company of Voices - Making Matters project. This community project is working towards an Open Day at Chilton Trinity Technology College on Saturday 5th March.

This day will involve photography by Laura Rouse, local based professional photographer, where creative photography will be fused with memories, entertainment and a buzzing atmosphere. As the Chilton Trinity school building will soon be demolished and replaced, Somerset Art Works has launched this exciting project to help bring the community closer and recognise the place the school has played in the lives of local people.
Large scale photographic portraits will be produced for permanent display in the new school building, visually linking the new school to its history.

Feel free to follow this blog for regular updates and join our new Facebook group page.

Check out the logo I made for this project and support this page! :D

Nisha Haq, volunteer and associate photographer :)