St Marks Primary visit

On 1st February ten students from the yr10 Graphics GCSE group went to Saint Marks Primary School to deliver a Design & Technology workshop to year 6 students. The aim was for them to get a feel for what it is like to be a teacher for a day.

Ms M Austin – Work Related Learning Co-ordinator


This is what Connor Mackness had to say about experience:

“When we first got there we were all wondering if the class we had were a nice class, when we first walked in the room the children were wondering who we were and what school we were from. We then told the kids what we would be doing with them (making bird feeders) and then we got them to draw four or more designs of what they would want their bird feeder to look like; we got them to do this up until break time.

After break time we got the children in their groups to choose the best idea to make in their groups and then we got them to make it out of card, the making process took a little longer than we expected it to so we carried on making them after lunch. We gave the kids about 20 minutes more after their lunch time to finish making their bird feeders, we then got the kids to paint there bird feeders and make sure everything was how they wanted it to be.

Once everything was painted we sadly had to clean and pack up to leave, the day flew by but all of us still enjoyed ourselves and had a great time helping the children with the project.”