Pupils creative with hope and evil
BEECH Hall School pupils unleashed their creativity when they were challenged to make their own versions of the popular Greek myth, Pandora’s Box.
Children from years five and six worked at home for two weeks to create their boxes, filling them with their own interpretations of the world’s evils, interspersed with hope, released when the box was opened.
Hope was the only thing left inside when the curious Pandora, the first woman on earth according to Greek mythology, closed the box again.
Each child had their own unique ideas of the unpleasant evils of the world – misery, poverty, disease, death and sadness.
They represented these using a variety of media in the boxes such as clay, paper, dark colours, needle-work, pictures, cotton wool, cocktail stick people and more.
Rats, creepy-crawlies and pictures of burning flames featured among the undesirable ingredients.
Each individual box was beautifully decorated and amidst the boxes’ evils, all contained the creature representing ‘hope’.
Nine-year-old Theo Johnson had a very detailed box.
He said: “I enjoyed it because it allowed me to be creative with blood and gore.
“I showed the different emotions in 3D. I showed laziness with a bed, a medical box for illness and coins for greed.”
Year five teacher Mrs Roberts commented: “The children’s creative skills are outstanding for their age and they showed a great understanding of the task.
“They had very interesting ideas of what each evil looked like and all of them put great effort into hope, which was great to see.”