The Garden of Dreams
The New Boy.
As I have explained the Transition Group can not join in the mainstream classroom lessons and we have a new boy from Eastern Europe with us, he has no English whatsoever.
My memory of this project is like a Hieronymus Bosch painting with pupils totally out of control, running randomly over the remotest parts of the school grounds sticking forks into orifices and poking dead birds with sticks. But I look back over the photos and review it all very fondly now.
I have really enjoyed working with the new boy who I can’t speak with. We are able to work together with some gesturing. This includes a pulling motion for ‘start the generator up’ and a little thumb + fore finger twisting motion for ‘turn it off’. Obvious ones like pointing at a bit of wood with a sawing or hammering action. A little trigger motion means cordless screw driver. I could see him getting a little frustrated at getting screws in tight without skidding all over the head and rounding the screw head off, thus not being able to quite screw it home firm enough. We got a new drill bit out of the packet and a smile said everything as he smashed a screw right in first go.
