We are now coming to the end of the rather lengthy school holidays – three weeks for Easter. Being a teacher working in schools but not with teacher holidays, this could mean a somewhat quiet time. However, I’ve managed to organise a couple of painting projects in schools.
The first was helping to touch up some painting done in Logre Primary 18 months ago. This was a bit of a baptism of fire! As you may know, art is not my strongest subject, so freehanding with drippy, sticky gloss and trying to draw complicated diagrams of flowers and fill in boundary lines in maps of Ghana proved to be fairly challenging. However, we managed in 2 days with a lot of help from the headteacher (Gana!) and 3 other teachers.
Our second project was painting 12 classrooms at one of my Let’s Read schools, Preparatory. We’ve been doing workshops here every week and so decided it was a good school to start painting at. There are 24 classes in the school, 4 at each stage, and 1200 children in the primary (and 400 in kindergarten!) (That averages 50 per class, though there are classes here with over 60.) We painted the alphabet in the infant (P1-3) classrooms. I had a super team of VSOs helping and also some children Ruby is working with at Mama Laadi’s, so we managed 10 classrooms in the first 2 days (and 2 days to do the last two, which were painting on wooden partitions so a bit trickier!)
Here are some of the results...
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