#@pilot

Airbus has projected that the industry will need over 500,000 new pilots in the next twenty years. However, the competition will remain fierce, so you need to make sure you are well prepared.

12/3/19 Today at Tate Liverpool we had a workshop about engagement with art led by an art lecture  . We were put into groups of 3 to complete the first part of the task. We held hands or wrists with our partner and faced each other and navigated the gallery with one person as the leader, who was facing forward for walking, and one person as the directed. We had to take 15 steps in any direction, turn to face the middle of the room and make a list of things that interested us about what we could see, this could be colour, artwork, image etc. The navigator translated some visual components of the works using only noises and facial expressions. No words in any language were allowed. We had to repeat the exercise in different rooms following Linda’s list, we had to then think about what we would do with our reflections in the future, for example pottery, artwork, performance.

It was a fun playful exercise and I generated strong ideas that could be developed and used for various resources that could be used within my own future workshops. This was a good way of collecting ideas, so students can come up with plenty of ideas for their workshop. It will help give students time to look at the gallery and see what they like and bond with the other students. It's a very energetic exercise to get the pupils thinking about how they could create their own narrative. This workshop has given me ideas of creating a gallery for students to generate ideas and feel creative through artwork for students to discuss ideas about creating their own artwork and what they like.

The next task was with Deborah Riding from Tate. We were asked to create an activity for children to engage within the museums for Tate Exchange, so it can be developed in school classrooms and can be used as an activity at Tate.

The activity I created was:

1. Choose your favourite work

2. Why do you like that work?

3.List things you like, colour, shape, theme, person, size etc.

4. With your list from point 3 draw an illustration of it

5. In groups gather your illustrations

6.Create a story from all the illustrations

I want the children to identify what they like in the artwork and explore that through their own interpretation which allows them to develop their drawing skills and build creative thinking. This improves their literacy and numeracy skills when creating a story.

These are images of my classmate's activities from the pilot :

A classmate designed and piloted a different activity through navigating online and following instructions. It was an exciting and engaging activity for young audiences as it's unusual and children like to try something new. Majority of students have a phone and it's normally not acceptable to be used in the lesson, so it was breaking boundaries and children like to be naughty. It doesn't limit what you can work with and is intriguing for young audiences. This has given me inspiration on no limitation on what I can deliver to young audiences and think outside the box and challenge students.