Little Acorns

The New School Sign


			Little Acorns Grow and Leave……….

			Children and staff at the Valley Primary School in Oakamoor are delighted with our new school sign. The headteacher invited a parent and local artist, Mr Ian Naylor, to replace the existing fibreglass sign with something relevant to the school’s history and ethos. One other request was - could the children be involved.

			Design workshops were held within the school, where the children talked and drew with the artist on the design requirements. Our school’s situation within a steep sided valley, the two school teams (oak and sycamore), colour, history and materials were all taken into consideration. Oak and copper were finally selected as being appropriate materials because of our close association with the history of both the school and village.

			Ian Naylor has lived in Staffordshire Moorlands for 15 years, and combines a career as a professional artist with figurative teaching on Stafford college’s visual arts course. His work can be seen at the RAF Museum Cosford, and Cannock Chase. A recent commission for Ian has been the huge computer designed decorating the Moorland’s library van. Due to be unveiled soon this year is his ‘flying’ contribution to the ‘Cheadle Trails’.

			The headteacher, Val Slater said, ‘ Our individual sign illustrates how we are able to cater for such a select number of children providing an individual approach to learning catering for individual children.’


			The sign was unveiled by Miss June Bolton

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