Taking inspiration from the previous work undertaken by the University at Parkwood Academy, Marc and Alan focused on what a classroom might look like if two different lessons were fused together. Pupils involved with the previous work successfully fused Maths and PE together, we wanted to see if this could be applied to other subjects.
We hoped that this would get the pupils thinking in their teachers shoes and also to generate ideas of how classrooms could be made more varied.
Our group of 5 first picked two subject areas each from our envelopes. These ranged from History & Drama to German & PE. We then asked them to collage onto a pre-drawn classroom, being as imaginative as possible, showing them an example of what we hoped they would achieve first. Several of the group were horrified at this prospect but once they got started they produced some of the best collages.
We tried to remain as participants ourselves, producing collages alongside the pupils and trying not to offer ideas unless they were very stuck. We suggested to some of the pupils that if they were stuck they should start with what colour the room should be but this meant that the task turned into a colouring in session and they ran out of time to put down all their ideas. It was very difficult to keep them working and generating ideas if they got stuck without influencing them with our ideas too.
Whilst this was going on we chatted informally to the group about what they liked and didn't like and this proved equally informative. All the group remained focused on the task and once they got into it produced some really good ideas.
General themes that came out of the workshop were: colour, comfort, chill out areas and variety of learning activies.
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