Week 9.

Today was my last visit to the school.

Trudi and I grouted and added the few remaining border tiles. We ran out of grout and so had to make a dash into Girvan to pick up some more!

We then let the P1,2 and 3's place a few stones each. The colours of the stones really compliment to tiles don't you think!?

Everyone seemed pleased with the results, especially the kids who have been a pleasure to work with.


IT is finished!

School Week 8

Today was my last funded visit to the school. It was a drizzly wet morning and the job was laying the tiles on the cement foundation...which set brilliantly!

I also had some border tiles remaining for the P2/3 class, I decided to hand them over to their teacher to complete as Trudi and I really needed to get on with the tile laying.

We soon got into our roles, Trudi putting down the waterproof grout. I was putting in the spacers and placing the tiles. We worked quickly and decided to leave the kids indoors as it was wet and we didn't want it to impact on the grout too much. Here are some pictures of the nearly finished work! The colours look a bit washed out but that is the picture...so please turn up you colour in your imagination! I will take a better camera next week.

I will make one last extra visit to lay the remaining edging tiles and then supervise the younger children to put in the edging stones.

School Week 7

We were decorating the tiles today.
It is a great stage to be at as we can begin to see what the instillation is going to look like. Each of the pictures had been copied and cut into 16 squares. Each child had a square each to trace the outline onto the tile. We managed to get by with only a couple of breakages!

The P 4/5 class was first up. Firstly I gave them all the squares, posted the original on the wall and let them make the jigsaw! That took a little while, They all began to recognize the elements they had done and naturally wanted to do those sections themselves, For the most part this worked.


The P7's were away sampling the delights of Secondary school so I only had the P6's after break. It is a great wee class and they all did a couple of tiles each. These pictures are of the P6's after we had laid out the complete piece with all the outlines completed! It looks great!




I also took in some half sized edging tiles for the P1/2 and 3's to decorate as I discovered they were worried that they weren't going to get a shot. A few of them got broken so I will have to make a few more for next week.

Here's some pics of the tiles with the stains. Sorry they are a bit dark but it gives you an idea.

School Week 6

Had a great day at the school today. On the way down the M77 it was threatening to rain, I was praying that it didn't.

Fortunately the dull start blossomed into a fantastic day. As I drove into the village the view of Ailsa Craig was stunning. It looks so close.

The goal was to get the cementing done. Naively I thought we would get this done by break time leaving the second part of the morning to decorate some tiles. It took from 9-12:45!! Tile decorating next week then!!



Paul the P6/7 teacher had made himself available to help until break time, thank goodness. He was the experienced cement mixer among us. He had brought cement, sand and some chips to strengthen the concrete.

4 of the P7 boys were appointed to help and boy did they love it. They worked really hard all morning without a single complaint.

Trudi was there as reliable as ever expertly shunting and smoothing the concrete!

By the end of the morning we were all experts!!

We lay the mixing board over the cement on props to give it some protection. I just hope it sets well!