The School Visit

It was a cold winters day in late November and team member Laurence White visited St. Peter's Primary School in East Bridgford along with several other A.T.'s from our course.

The main outcome of this visit was to get the children from the school involved, get them interested in the project, get their minds running with crazy ideas on what they want in their classroom, after all they do say a child's imagination is limitless and they may have some great ideas.

Upon arrival the group held a short presentation to the children, this was ran by Scott Eburne.

After this the team, went with a small focus group of about 20 from the school environment club and let there imagination run wild with what they wanted...

Below are some photos of the members interacting with the children:

(Above) Laurence and Helen talking to some of the children

(Above) Luke (background) and Tom Kirk (foreground)

(Above) Scott talking to the children

(Above) Shraddha talking and laughing with the kids

Lots of ideas were gathered from the children. Our Project Manager proposed the idea of making a leaflet which could be filled out with words or pictures to engage the children on a real level to see what they want, it included headings like what to you want in the school? What animals to you want there? What would they like to cook? What food would you like to grow? What features inside? Etc, etc. Some of the responses were very imaginative and included from bird houses to snakes & worms! Apple trees to carrots! And large windows and paintings of there own work inside the building.

Overall going to the school was a very informative, helpful and refreshing trip! It engaged and infused not only us as A.T.'s but the children, and this is what we wanted, to get their imagination running with ideas and thoughts!

At the end of the session there it ended with a nice team photo (only after a few shots though)...