So Today is our final day at DACA before we come back in may to do our workshop. I have year 8 textiles in the morning and year 10 photography in the afternoon aslso we are meeting to talk about our workshops at the end of the day.
This morning after talking with Louise Klink she said that we could go to the lessons that we feel will benifit us the most and so for that reason I am going to stay in textiles for the day.
Morning Lessons (year 8 textiles first half)
This morning has been a shambles in terms of MMU pupils to be honest due to the lack of communication. To be frank I feel quite embarrass. There was quite a few of us in this lesson today and we were all assigned to three pupils and we were making tye dye string bags. There were 3 colours yellow red and blue and a child asked could they use black the teacher said we have no black.
She then told me personally that she didn't want them using black because she didn't have a lot so it wouldn't be fair and also because it will cover and not blend with the other colours. Also in DACA the pupil aren't aloud to the toilets during lesson time.
During the lesson one of the MMU student started rummaging through the cupboards and finding black ink and started just painting the bags without tye dye and without asking the teacher. She then started painting white designs and using fabric pen to write on them resulting in her getting fabric pen on the smart board.She then told the pupils to go to the toilet to use the hand dryers on their work because the hair dryers weren't good enough which resulted in ink being dripped around the corridors. This could have been a safety hazard and anyone could have slipped.
The teacher is quite young herself and she pulled me aside and told me what was happening and how she couldn't believe that someone would do that without asking her. She said that she didn't want to say anything to her because she felt patronized and like the MMU student knew more then her.
I was appalled. I politely told the MMU student that the kids weren't aloud out of class during class time.
This has however taught me how vital communication is within a group, and how everyone need to work together .
The second half of the lesson calmed down, most MMU students left to go to year 10 photography. Miss Coffee took the blag material off the students and got them to start again with tye dye. However the elastic bands ran out but th teacher had a back up plan of tightly wrapped cotton. Another downfall was gloves as the there weren't enough and so most kids hand became full of ink. This has showed me that when it comes to our DACA workshop we need to make sure that we have fully planed and have enough resources for every child.
DACA Workshop Chat
At the end of the day we all had a group chat about ideas for the DACA workshop we got into 2 group this was voluntary as it would be unfair to make people work together if they didn't want to. In our finalized group we through ideas about what we could do personally i wanted something textile based as this was something I thought was lacking but I do understand that we have to work together and compromise with ideas. We spoke about in our group the Holi festival and how they throw powder paint to signify positivity. Miss Klink however thought that the workshop itself should be based on the Holi festival and we should just incorporate it somehow. So I plan to create a group chat between our group and so I asked all the people to write there name on a piece of paper everyone did except one girl and I feel terrible but I had only just met her and didn't know her name at all..
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