We visited Redgates school to see how the lessons work again but for a different subject rather than art. Our class were being taught maths and you could see that their concentration levels are really challenged when doing maths as they need to focus more on one specific thing.
Before the lesson, we went to the school early so that we were there before the students arrived, this was because they wanted us to go to the buses to get the children and bring them into the class. The reason why we done this was so that the children could again become more familiar with us again and remember who we were from before. I had the job to collect Reece one of the students my allocated class (class 10) and he remembered me straight away. Once all the students had been taken to their classes, the students have a bit of time outside to release all the energy before they have to sit and focus.
Once they had come in from outside, the students sat in a circle and started with the day of the week and linked it with the colour yellow and the smell of lemon. Before the students got to smell/taste the lemon, they had to say it or communicate it using makaton. They then also said hello to the new faces in the classroom which were me, Florrie and also another new assistant. Because we had been there before, they had to try and remember mine and Florrie's names however they had to ask the new assistant what her name was.
Even though we are there to focus on art and make an art workshop, we observed a maths lesson so that we could get better understanding on how the students learn in different circumstances. Starting the maths lesson, they got separated into 4 groups (based on their abilities) which is where me and Florrie were placed with one of the students with the highest pre national curriculum level in the class. We had an activity where there were a row of items on the paper and one was the odd one out. She would have to name all of the items on the paper and then decide which one was the odd one out. This was when I found out that she really likes drawing, as when I saw on back of one of the sheets of paper a drawing which she done, I then asked her about drawing and she said she really loves drawing, this helped us as it gave us a new idea on what she might like in our art workshop. This means that we could potentially make a separate workshop for her where she can do some drawing. This would have to be separate as the other students wouldn't have the same ability as her to be able to make detailed drawings as she has a higher pre national curriculum level. However, we could also do a drawing task which all the students can do but it will still allow the higher ability students to draw in more detail.
Then there was another activity and the groups changed so then I was now placed with 4 children while we sung the duck song, each time they sung the song one of the ducks were taken away and the children had to acknowledge that there isn't the same number as before and had to tell the teacher how many ducks were left. This needed more concentration from the students as even though they were having a cheerful activity singing, they found it hard to communicate how many ducks were left.
This made us realise that whatever our workshop was going to be, we really had to consider about how much concentration the children are going to have to have because they get frustrated and distracted when they are focussing on the same thing for too long.
We realised that after every activity, they had a count down from 10 so that they can understand that it is time to finish and be prepared to stop that particular task and be ready that something new is going to happen after and that they won't be doing the same thing again. Once the maths lesson finished, they had a snack break at 11:00am which is where we said goodbye and met with the other students in our group.
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