Artistic pupils rock up to quarry

PUPILS from a primary school have been digging deep to explore a quarry site as part of a regional project.


A team of 28 youngsters from Year Five at Clavering Primary, in Clavering Road, Hartlepool, have been exploring the active quarry at Hart, owned by Sherburn Stone Company, with the help of a professional artist as part of a project titled Going Underground.

The Project, which is run by Tees Valley Arts and funded by Natural England, involved four different schools from the Tees Valley area and has enabled the children from these schools to explore and improve their knowledge and understanding of subjects such as geodiversity, biodiversity and local heritage.
One class from each school explored a quarry site through a number of exciting creative art forms with the help of a professional artist and local wildlife, history and geological specialists.
Joe Dunne, Tees Valley Arts' Heritage Officer said: "Through using the arts in this way, this project is providing an exciting and innovative means of interpreting unusual sites as a source of national curriculum learning."