PUPILS at St Chad’s CE Primary School got creative as they took part in an exciting stained glass window project.
The project was designed to link the Year 4/5 pupils’ RE topic ‘A Picture Tells a Thousand Words’ with St Chad’s Church ‘Seeing is Believing’ project.
The church is currently fundraising for extensive repairs to their beautiful stained glass windows, as well as other building works.
Karen Redmayne, from Redcurrant Studios, spent the day at the Uppermill School working with small groups of children and exploring a range of stained glass techniques.
The pupils created intricate designs in sections within a large stained glass window design, inspired by the windows of St. Chad’s Church and also designs studied in their RE lessons.
The children’s designs were applied to the glass using fireable glass stain, which is dried then worked on.
Their impressive works were then taken away and fired in a kiln.
The children also looked at some finished samples of Karen’s previous work and she demonstrated how to use materials properly, health and safety considerations and processes involved in creating a stained glass window.
Karen has now taken the designs back to Redcurrant Studios where she will finish, solder, lead, cement and polish the window, which will be displayed in handmade oak frame.
St Chad’s Church is grateful to Uppermill Co-op and its shoppers for making this exciting project possible thanks to money raised through the Co-op’s Local Community Fund scheme.
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