A Typical Consultation Diary
5.00 Wake Up
Sadie and Emma get out of bed and wonder why on earth they decided to do this project – it is too early for them to be functioning.
6.00 Leave Brixton
Sadie and Emma to drive to Hertfordshire eating cream cheese bagels on route and missing the rush hour traffic.
7.30 Arrive in North Hertfordshire
Sadie and Emma to have a quick kip in the car and hope they don't get moved on
8.00 Arrive at School
Sadie and Emma to introduce themselves to staff and prepare for workshops 8.45 Registration
9.00 Introduction & Discussion (Class1)
Emma and Sadie will introduce themselves and the project to the class and explain the activities that will take place during the lesson. We will also have a class discussion on what we think the countryside is – including what things you see, smell and hear in the countryside. These will all be written onto a poster at the front of the class as the children contribute them.
• Drawing Activity
Children will then create a drawing that will be added together with those from the other two classes to make one collaborative work to be viewed by the whole school at the end of the day. This will take the form of a drawing, in pencil on paper, made by each child of a view of the countryside – this can be somewhere imagined or somewhere that they know. At the end of the lesson these drawings will be added to the windows of a train frame shape (we will bring this with us on the day) as the views from each window.
• Colour Game
Children will then be given lots of colour paint samples and asked to pick colours that they associate with the countryside. These will be stuck together as a group collage.
• Painting Activity
Children will select one colour from the paint samples that they think is their favourite or most relaxing / pleasurable to look at and we will then learn how to mix it. This will involve learning basic colour mixing skills and then experimenting with proportions to create different tones. They will then paint their favourite colour onto a sample board to make a class selection of favourite colours.
• Plenary & Clear Up
Class will help clear up painting materials and will then sit as group to discuss the things we have learnt and have the opportunity to ask Sadie and Emma any questions they might have.
• Break
10.40 Introduction & Discussion (Class 2)
Emma and Sadie will introduce themselves and the project to the class and explain the activities that will take place during the lesson. We will also have a class discussion on what we think the countryside is – including what things you see, smell and hear in the countryside. These will all be written onto a poster at the front of the class as the children contribute them.
• Drawing Activity
Children will then be given paper and pencils to draw in a picture of what they think the country side looks like – this can be somewhere imagined or somewhere that they know to add to the collaborative drawing as described above.
• Colour Game
Children will then be given lots of colour paint samples and asked to pick colours that they associate with the countryside. These will be stuck together as a group collage.
• Painting Activity
Children will select one colour from the paint samples that they think is their favourite or most relaxing / pleasurable to look at and we will then learn how to mix it. This will involve learning basic colour mixing skills and then experimenting with proportions to create different tones.
11.45 Plenary & Clear Up
Class will help clear up painting materials and will then sit as group to discuss the things we have learnt and have the opportunity to ask Sadie and Emma any questions they might have.
12.00 Lunch Break
1.00 Introduction & Discussion (Class 3 – oldest class)
Emma and Sadie will introduce themselves and the project to the class and explain the activities that will take place during the lesson. We will also have a class discussion on what we think the countryside is – including what things you see, smell and hear in the countryside. Children will be asked to write their own contributions and thoughts onto post-it notes and bring these to the front of the class to stick onto a collaborative poster.
1.20 Drawing Activity
Children will then be given paper and pencils to draw in a picture of what they think the country side looks like – this can be somewhere imagined or somewhere that they know.
• Colour Game
Children will then be given lots of colour paint samples and asked to pick colours that they associate with the countryside. These will be stuck together as a group collage.
• Painting Activity
Children will select one colour from the paint samples that they think is their favourite or most relaxing / pleasurable to look at and we will then learn how to mix it. This will involve learning basic colour mixing skills and then experimenting with proportions to create different tones.
2.20 Plenary & Clear Up
Class will help clear up painting materials and will then sit as group to discuss the things we have learnt and have the opportunity to ask Sadie and Emma any questions they might have.
2.30 Assembling the Train
Class 3 will go to the school hall and assemble the collaborative drawing work of a train with all the different views out of the window.
• Sound Recording
Both other classes will join class 3 in the school hall to view their final work and to think about what the noises might be that could be heard outside the train window in all the landscapes that can be seen. Each child will choose one noise to make each and we will make a sound recording off all their noises to accompany the drawing.
• Home Time
Emma and Sadie to clear up and collect all work
4.00 Leave Hertfordshire
Emma and Sadie to drive back to Brixton
6.00 Arrive Brixton
Emma and Sadie to drink a bottle of chilled white wine and go to sleep. [back to top] |
