Paver Workshops

 Workshops to glue the tiles onto pavers were held at Sunshine Heights Primary School.

There was a series of workshops with Parents and another with Staff of the school.

Here are some photos.

broken tiles are separated into colours ready to use.

All of the materials needed are travelling to the workshops

Four teachers work together on one paver and it is awesome!!!!

Paver in progress by Jacci

Sukie working on her paver

Parent Paver making team!

Above: You can see some of the tiles which have been brought to the workshops so that the parents can choose which ones to put on each paver.

Thank you very much to the parents and staff - 

Huong, Jacci, Sukie, Jessica, Jasmine, Aasta, Winpreet and Irene - 

who were willing to learn a new skill and contribute to this project.

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The tiles are fired!

 Here is a photo of the kiln that the tiles were fired in. Each tile has to have two firings - a bisque, which transforms the clay into a hard tile (stone) and then a second one where I paint a glaze (like putting powdered glass onto the surface of the tile) and then it comes out shiny!

Above: The tiles are sitting in the kiln on shelves 

Above and below: Here are the tiles as they have come out of the kiln on each shelf

(not all tiles are in these photos)