Discovering Malawi.
This has turned out to be the title for my project with the Primary School Children. We made models of a school in Malawi which was ambitious and a challenge for many of them.
The rewards for perseveranceare are paying off. The bricks are being drawn on, the interiors are developing with stuff on the walls, people are being modeled and the roofs have tiles or corrugated sheeting on. These model schools are just fab. I watch the kids looking in through the windows into their creations and the stories are coming out and, the animals and the people are doing thing things.
Working like this is a flexible thing and its a bit like riding the rapids. One week its all gone off track, and the things you planned are swept asside. The following week its found a momentum and dosent need steering much! The results are inspiring.
Our next step is to construct not a model, but a small replica school out of plywood. Kind of like a garden shed size?
