Schools and more schools

This week I visited three more schools. At one of them I got a picture from a little girl. It’s a picture of me! First I thought she was exaggerating a bit, but I have to admit, after a month of travelling around schools I really do look like that.

I was in nice schools this week. The first one was Garswood Primary School in Wigan. It was great. Then I went to lovely Otterbourne Primary School in Hampshire. The school was very friendly and I was very well looked after by the head Alison Langrish. Alison knew every child in the school and she knew a lot about art, so the children were also nice and clever. Very good artists too. We painted and drew lots of beautiful pictures. We made a mural. Here is one of the self-portraits I was presented with.

On Friday I was in Thornden School in Eastleigh. The school was great. A really good Art department run by very nice and good teachers. This time I worked with older children. The girls and boys were 12,13 and 14 years old. I did a talk about picture books and then we did a workshop. We made little books together.I don’t work with this age group very often, so I was really impressed by the skills and the enthusiasm with which the children worked. Judging by the fact that some of them didn’t even want to go out for break, I can say they enjoyed the workshop and so did I.

Some of these books were amazing!

I can say that I was definitely inspired by some of the students’ ideas.

 

 

I was home over the weekend, trying catch up with my book. I’m now half way there (almost), but I have to leave the book on the side again. I’m off to …some schools next week.