Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Lord of the Flies

So far we have delivered Four workshops, everyone seemed to enjoy them, joking about and being friendly. for the first workshop, we weren't sure what to expect because we didn't have any idea of numbers or abilities, but we stuck it out and got on with making the bunting. Miles did a great job of introducing everyone and getting their names, but i couldn't remember any of them, i ended of reading their names off of their name tags. The lesson went well because everyone enjoyed playing with the fire-themed stencils and the bright paint, making a mess and managing to get the paint on the table even though we laid down news paper. By the end of the lesson we were agitated cause one of the sinks was supposed to be out of order (but it had no sign and one of the supporters used it) and the drain over-flowed with sewage water and the room stank, so we only had half a room for the next class (which had lots of wheelchairs in) while the cleaner moped up the water. In the second lesson i got nervous (Alex was watching us and taking notes), and the children were more difficult to work with, they were all energetic because they had just come in from their break, but they did more work than our first class.
By the third class i think that we were all tired. we decided to scrap our collage plan for the lesson and repeat the printing with stencils workshop because the previous students really seemed to enjoy it. For the fourth workshop, we ran out of fabric so we cut the triangles out of paper instead; then we decided to use our collaging idea, we got the pupils to draw a simple image of a pig, gave them glitter, tissue paper, coloured pencils, sequins and glue to have some fun, but doing the work at the same time. By the end of the lesson the room was a mess, their was glitter and sequins all over the floor and we had to clear the room fast cause the media students needed the room straight after us.

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