First Year Group A 03.09.18

03/09/18

Not everyone has decided whether to take the class yet or not, only one has said yes out of 22. But there are 3 other classes of first years, so we will have a small group.

The introduction to the class was a brief outlook on the junior cert, however the options that where given where somewhat limited (batik, weaving, calligraphy, and one more) but the work load was stressed, perhaps to underline that this is not just a fun class and that there is hard work involved.

The first exercise introduced to the pupils  was lettering. But words that look like what they say, so that if you couldn’t read that language you would be able to guess the word. I.E Fish, you draw out the letters in the shape of a fish. Or New York draw the letter as skyscrapers. The girls were given a list of words to help inspire, however they were free to choose. The list consisted of words such as Tear, Walking, Scary. This was done so that the pupils had a stepping stone to help get the pencil to the paper as it would probably be quite intimidating having to think of your own ideas, especially if this isn’t a chosen class. This may also inspire something in the undecided pupils. This exercise is not aimed to be a realistic representation of the word, more so a design aspect. Thus allowing the pupils to be creative without pressure of creating a master piece in such a short space of time.

The kids were instructed to divide the page in 6 and start doodling ideas, some pupils folded the sheet to create lines some went straight in a drew them and other took a minute to gently draw them out. Some of the pupils stuck to the same word and explored it with different ideas, and other did 6 different words. The teacher walked around the pupils drawing on different ideas they had and encouraged their ideas. The next class the pupils get to pick a design and start to use colour, which they seemed excited about.