Manchester Art Gallery Workshop

Today we went to the Manchester art gallery to have a workshop I found this whole day extremely useful we started the day with an "In, Out" activity this involved the teacher saying two contrasting words and us choosing a side. This was a great activity to start us going and get everyone involved and ready for the day. I feel that this is useful in our own workshops as it would help the kids get up and ready for the day.

We did an activity of choosing a line on a painting and following it through the painting, we then had to make a story for the painting based on a sense ours being feel. Wee made "It was full of lonely hope". This was a mindfulness activity and was there to calm us down after the in out game. This really worked with our group however I found it a little monotonous, and to be honest quit tricky. So I don't think this activity would work great with year 7's. However I do feel that some type of calming down activity would be good even if it is just getting them to sit down and watch a video, or a powerpoint presentation.

The final activity involved us working in small groups. We each had a painting and based on that we had to draw part of an island. The were 4 groups and each group had either North, West, South or East. The one person from each group went around the room explaining their part of the island. It was interesting to see how differently each of our islands came out. Although I don't feel this would be suitable for DACA it was a great team building activity and has brought us closer. 

Throughout the day at the art gallery there has been an overriding ttheme of landscape and enviroment. Now we need to go back to our workshop and make sure that we have a claer theme throughout each activity in the day.