GLASS “coats of arms” have brought to life the handiwork of a group of dale school pupils.
Classes two and three at Ramshaw Primary School helped produce two beautiful stained glass patchwork windows using sketches they’d done during an art workshop.
Ramshaw school takes part in the Children and the Arts project, funded by the Start programme, which has entered its third and final year, alongside several other schools in County Durham.
Learning co-ordinator Julia Dunn, from The Bowes Museum, helps run the programme. She said: “It’s all about engaging children with cultural sites and exploring the arts. The focus this year has been on Streatlam Castle’s exhibition and the children were inspired by the ceiling taken out of there and put in The Bowes Museum in 1927. It’s been great.”
After creating their own designs, the panes were fused together by artist Dyane Turner, who showed the children how to use glass paint and how the process worked.
