Worksop: Children help design totem pole sculpture

Sculptor Simon Kent visited Gateford Park and worked with the year four and five children to design and create a totem pole that would reflect nature and the school.

By The Newsroom

Published 21st Sep 2013, 13:31 BST

Sculptor Simon Kent has been working with children of Gateford Park Primary School to design a sculture for the school grounds, Simon is pictured with some of the children who helped to design the new feature (w130917-4)

Simon took the the children’s ideas and worked the design around them.

He also gave the children a demonstration of how he uses a chainsaw to create the totem poles and then allowed the children to have a go chiseling and sawing.

Staff also helped by digging the hole for the sculpture to be installed in.

The finished sculpture is made of solid oak and is six feet tall.

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