ARTISTIC pupils from St Lawrence School in Horncastle have made and displayed their very own clay models of the Chinese Terracotta Warriors.
These impressive models were put on display at the school along with posters produced by creative year nine pupils in their weekly art lessons.
The idea came after art teacher Vanessa Fuller visited the exhibition of the Terracotta Warriors in London earlier this year and thought it would be good for her pupils to learn about it and to have a go at making their own models.
The real terracotta statues were uncovered in 1974. They were buried with China's first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi, to protect him in the afterlife.
Over a six week period, the pupils made a life size version of one of the statues and 25 miniature ones.
The life size model stands at 1.8 metres and they had to find a same size teacher to make the outline.
Pupil Thomas Gilbert was particularly excited by the project.
He took it upon himself to research the terracotta warriors in his spare time and even wrote his own letter to the News to tell us about it.
"He was really engaged in the project and brought a folder in with his own research," said Mrs Fuller.
"They all really enjoyed the project. The models were created in the Chinese style starting from the feet upwards. They were set up with coils and are hollow in the inside."
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