Hayes Primary School

As part of our specialist programme, Year 4 from Hayes Primary School spent Wednesday 11th March in BGB creating posters for their project on the environment. Before they came, the pupils had either chosen or written poems for their posters about different types of regions: mountains, rainforests, meadows or rivers.

In the first part of their session, led by Mr Cooper, they had to search for different images on the Internet. When they had found several they opened these up in Photoshop and changed the sizes so they had a background image and some other smaller elements, plants, animals etc. that they then cut out and added on in layers. The final part was to add the text, choosing a line or two from their poems they learned how to change the font, size and colour and add effects.

Working in pairs they created more than fifty professional looking posters. They were understandably proud of their efforts and the amount that they had learned about Photoshop in such a short time. They particularly enjoyed working in the Mac suite with the new computers and working with the Sixth Form helpers.