Flying Potter Saturday Tour

I worked with two independent schools on Saturday -Malvern St James in the morning and Lucton school in the afternoon. The girls at Malvern St James, made three fabulous, autumn inspired collaborative pots, as well as individual hibernating hedgehogs. For more details of what we got up to, check out www.malvernstjames.co.uk and follow the link to the juniors newsletter, .

Once the van was packed, it was a dash up to North Herefordshire to meet the boarders at Lucton school.

The staff wanted all 38 boarding students, aged between 9 and 19, to make a collaborative wall panel to go in the entrance hall of the boarding house; something with the 'wow' factor to impress visitors. The girls and boys came up with the idea of self portraits, grouped together to resemble a giant ceramic 'class' photograph. We all had great fun modelling our faces in terracotta clay, in some cases 'splatting' the clay slabs onto our faces to make an impression. Once the clay was peeled from the students faces, the results were stunning - a great recipe for a fake tan too!