College placement

So, we had to do a week's placement for our hnc. Sarah and I were given a week at Newburgh primary school redecorating their somewhat dilapidated outdoor play shelter.

First impressions: this looks like a crack den



So, day 1: the UBER clean up!! We literally spent the whole morning scraping scabby bits of paint off the wall, along with a large quantity of spider webs, moss and slugs. Fun. After that we painted the best part of the shelter white so that we had a good base-coat before beginning our painting.



Day 2 and 3 done "sans Rachybell". I was dying from ill for the best part of a week, and have been assured that I looked like hell. I would have felt a lot worse about missing 2 days of placement if I wasn't so spaced out on co-codamol. Luckily sarah got a lot of work done while I was lying in bed watching Goodnight Sweetheart and eating jelly.

Day 4: well, that was a general continuation of the work Sarah had managed to power on with. Touching up pictures and getting the base mural sorted out. We both took one side of the shelter to paint our own picture on. Sarah decided on unicorns (apparently a dry run for her bedroom!!) and I decided on a rainbow spider. These were all based on pictures which the pupils had drawn as part of a competition. Apparently a lot of them like rainbows. And fish...


As you can see, Sarah had both time and skill on her side, so she managed to make a much better go at her picture! Still, I like my spider in my own special wee way..!!


After we did our pictures we got wee groups of kids out so that they could paint pictures of themselves onto the wall. This was the p1-p2 class so the kids are all 5 or 6. And Hyper. Very hyper.

So, the suggestion of "painting yourself" was interpreted in a very enthusiastic and somewhat abstract way. It was good fun though, even if one kid did actually believe he was Batman.. prompting another kid to decide that he was, in actual fact, spiderman. Apparently Newburgh is full of superheroes. Who knew?!So here's a couple shots, looking at the destruction that thirteen 6 year olds can cause in the space of only a few hours. I'm not liking the html, it keeps mucking up, so I'm only putting a couple of pictures up at the moment until I can get my poor wee head around it! I think you can see from these that it was pretty damn colourful anyway!!!

There may have been a sight paint fight following the suggestion that hand prints on the wall were a good idea, followed by the best part of the picture being annihilated by the wee darlings we were working with. Hand prints everywhere... even Sarah's ass. I think I look too fierce to be messed with, I got off fairly lightly. Well, up until Sarah attacked me with a handful of paintbrushes. But that is a whole other story anyway.

All in all seems to have been a success, anyway. I would like to think that the kids have a nicer shelter to play in and, what I feel is more likely, the teenage stoners have something slightly more psychedelic to get high in and set on fire. Good work team Sarah and Rachel. Good work indeed!!!