Lesson 2: What do you like?...'BLUE'

After spending the previous day planning and organising, we were back at the school this morning for the second lesson. The students seemed happy to see us back, one proclaiming "...this should be a fun lesson. I told my Maths teacher about the last lesson and was asked if I found Maths as interesting. I told him 'No! Maths is well boring!" Davina.

After a brief summary of the previous lesson's work and a quick slide show of some inspirational precedents, we settled back into three groups, with a slight mix up of the students this time to keep things interesting.

We had decided to keep the groups under a common heading of 'Activities' this time, with each group concentrating on a different focus around this subject. Our group concentrated on colours for a second week, looking at how different colours could influence different activities and emotions, discussing this more in-depth as we went.

After a quick introduction looking at the same room in different colours as a visual aid, we moved onto a quick exercise of 'Shoe Box Classrooms'. For this we combined two different activities in a shoe box (my group worked on sports and reading) and looked at different possibilities for colours, layouts, furniture etc, discussing how the students felt this best worked as we went and what else they would like to see.

Group Work - Looking at Colours

The students seemed to respond well to the activities, and despite one forever showing her love for blue (every question was answered by the 'blue'...and not just questions about colours) the exercise was very productive and the class appears very excited by the work they are undertaking. It also seems that the inspirational images we presented to them has further inspired them and they seem excited by the possibilities of what could be achieved.