Empowering our learners...

Last week I received an email from one of our lovely Year 6 students. David chats to me each week when I'm on duty about the art he is doing at home and asks me questions about the art we are doing in Year 7/8, a connection we've had for a number of years since he spent some time in my class doing art. In the email he shared a photo of one of the drawings he had done at home, and asked if I would like him to come and teach this style of drawing to my class.

I imagine it took courage to email me and ask this question so I replied immediately saying that I would love him to come into my class and take an art lesson. On Friday we sorted out a time that worked for his teachers, and between us decided that his art lesson would take place the following week on Tuesday afternoon. He was very excited and told me he would let me know on Monday what I needed to have ready for him. This is exactly what happened and on Monday I was given my list!

I arranged for David to work with a group of my Y7/8 students. Before his visit we talked about how we needed to show him respect, and as one of my lovely students said "... and build him up because he's definitely showing one of our school values by being confident. Don't worry Mrs Anderson we'll look after him." 

Today I got everything ready and after lunch David came in armed with two exemplars and a huge smile. He loved every minute of his art lesson, as did the students he was working with. I'm so glad I said yes to this, because today I saw this boy shine.