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Subiaco Primary- Jennie & Tanya

by Tanya Rodin,

DATE 5th June

Warm Up

How do I feel, in a move. Close your eyes, think of how you feel, and then think of how you could show me that in a move. Then we go around and try on everyone’s emotion. Also looking at each other’s and being honest of how we are feeling and considering how you could support those who maybe look like they need it. Then maybe have a dance party with everyone dancing their own emotion? If you see someone and think, actually…I want to try on theirs, go for it. Then maybe see if they can do it fast, then slow does that change how it feels?

Main Activity (one photo)

Box mountain filming

We managed a ⅓ of the size of 11m3 for our box tower. We today worked more on the words component/ rhetorical questions we had/ super words.

Before heading outside, they all grabbed a whiteboard and wrote a rhetorical question or word that they would like to have on the whiteboard for their moment to ‘speak’.

We went outside and played with some different ways of filming each other and the boxes, really thinking about the message we are wanting to share.

Reflection with the students

We came inside, and after the bunting triangles they reflected on where they would like that video to be shown, what would they like to see happen as a result of people seeing this video.

After the session:

Planning with the Teacher
(refer back to your original Term Plan document, discuss successes, explore challenges and make changes.)

I personally found this session quite confronting and sad.. Seeing their questions and reflecting on the bigger problem at large, I found it pretty sad. So I tried to make a point of sharing how this week was the last week kind of exploring what this issue is and what we think about it, and how I was excited to see all their creative ideas that they have already had start to present exciting ways we can take action and do something about it.

Working with students
(what is emerging, what is engaging them/not, what’s making them curious.)

Jennie has mentioned how they are all really excited about the video, and at the fact that others are going to see it. Tremendously excited to see them fully engage in next weeks activity of jazzing up some overalls for their latest client - Ms Richardson.

Ideas moving forward
(ideas for next session, future lessons, discussed with teacher, do you need the teacher to do anything before you return.)

Overalls jazzing up session;

Students will decide on either a theme or just general likes of Ms Richardson
They will design their own design to add to the overalls, and then in groups will choose location and fabrics to start going ahead with making them! Including learning to stitch, use fabric glue and cut out shapes.

Resources
(do you need anything, who will source it?)

Fabrics- already sourced
Overalls- secondhand already sourced
Fabric glue- already sourced.
Needles and maybe thread?- Tanya (REmida?)

How can you share learning outcomes/stories of transformation with the wider school community (e.g. Connect newsletter, staff meeting, school newsletter, school social media platforms)

They are very excited to share their videos. Lots of them suggested we send it to netflix, others wanted us to send it to environmental activists. There is a lot of excitement to share this with community and they don’t even know about the stall yet.

We had some more chats with teachers passing by today because we had this massive box sculpture. Also Jennie presented to the staff last friday and that went well.