FIELD TRIP TO HAMPTON COURT PALACE
So I'm a week and a half into my school placement in a Year 1 and today I have been sent on a misson to escort a Year 3 class to Hampton Court Palace, the former residence of King Henry VIII. I thought I would just get the children safely to the trains, watch as they were shown around the Palace and count heads every 10 minutes to make sure we hadn't lost any (whilst hoping we might!?).
How wrong was I? VERY... we were actually assigned to groups and asked to show them around the palace and tell them all about what they were seeing (why else would they have given us the information photocopies the night before right?). My group was predominately Polish speaking which made things interesting.
The funniest part of the trip was when we played a memory game. [You choose a painting. Give the children a minute to look at it turn then around and one by one ask them what they saw, going throught the class until they run out of ideas.] The first painting was a last super idea but the second, a wall painted in the Queen's Appartments (the entire room, even the ceiling, was painted), was perhaps not my best choice.
The problem with my painting choice was lots and lots and lots of naked people, many mermaids and cherubs but, a lot were just naked. But it never dawned on me that maybe I should have chosen another painting!?
(The gardens at Hampton Court Palace are like something out of Alice in Wonderland)
Not a total disaster though, as the children dealt with it very maturely (the first mature thing they had done all day!). Fortunately when I thought about art education lessons I remembered the teacher encouraging us to look at painting of naked people with the children and encouraging this maturity from a young age.
I praised the pupils for their mature attitudes and told them most children wouldn't have behaved so grown up... and then swiftly moved on!
How wrong was I? VERY... we were actually assigned to groups and asked to show them around the palace and tell them all about what they were seeing (why else would they have given us the information photocopies the night before right?). My group was predominately Polish speaking which made things interesting.
The funniest part of the trip was when we played a memory game. [You choose a painting. Give the children a minute to look at it turn then around and one by one ask them what they saw, going throught the class until they run out of ideas.] The first painting was a last super idea but the second, a wall painted in the Queen's Appartments (the entire room, even the ceiling, was painted), was perhaps not my best choice.
The problem with my painting choice was lots and lots and lots of naked people, many mermaids and cherubs but, a lot were just naked. But it never dawned on me that maybe I should have chosen another painting!?
(The gardens at Hampton Court Palace are like something out of Alice in Wonderland)I praised the pupils for their mature attitudes and told them most children wouldn't have behaved so grown up... and then swiftly moved on!
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