Chips are up: ten-year old Robert Sawyer with his very own fish and chips.
Young local artists are about to go continental with an exhibition about their community.
Children from Tweendykes Special School in East Hull are contributing paintings and sculptures to the My Country, My Community Exhibition, which is being launched at Hull's Maritime Museum next month.
A total of 100 pieces of artwork have been gathered for the exhibition from six European special schools for children with learning difficulties.
Kelly Templeman, Ashley Klein and Mark Hunter apply the finishing touches to their sculpture. Both pieces will feature in exhibitions across Europe.
After leaving Hull, they will be displayed in Coventry, Latvia, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark and London.
The final showing will take place at the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels, in November 2002. The exhibition launch also forms part of Ability Not Disability week, which celebrates the achievements of local disabled people, and the Tweendyke children will be giving art demonstrations as part of the event. Organisers also hope to produce a film, made up of television news reports about the
exhibition as it travels around Europe.
Roman Osuch, European awareness co-ordinator at Tweendykes Special School, said: "The exhibition is a valuable educational exercise because it allows the children to experience other cultures and countries
via art. We also hope that it will demonstrate that these children have a lot to offer despite their disabilities."
The exhibition is the latest in a long line of international activities that the school has been involved in. Pupils have swapped everything from mince pies to video diaries with their European counterparts in order to learn more about the way they live.
