Students responsible for arranging a tea party/ cafe event for community or invited guests:
Research traditions and customs around making and serving tea to guests; cultural variations; types of tea: global citizenship, social, languages… Continue reading Organise a tea party/event
Children draw tea set/s (real and printed pictures from website of SotS collection and others).
Discuss similarities and differences of the tea sets, lookingat detail, shape, colour, weight and textures. Continue reading Tea set exploration and designing
Explore first hand a collection of vessels including cups, jugs, teapots etc.
Students select a celebrity and silversmith pairing to research individually, in pairs or as a co operative learning team.
Read the story, watch the film about the silversmith, see the designs and final products associated with these two people.
Look at stories from the celebrities and think about your own response to this: Who would you have a cup of tea with, where would you be, what would you drink, what would you chat about? In pairs share your ideas.
Silver of the Stars 