Year 13 teaching Year 7 and 8

My Year 13 class have visited one of our local primary / intermediate schools this week. Two of them visited Glen Taylor school at the end of last term to talk about effective logo design. Blog post here.

This week the whole class went so they could start to redesign their logos with them.
We had a talk the day before about what we would focus on and how they would do it.
We decided to all work in circles, focus on using guide lines for lettering, simplifying the image of the mountains used and simple font choice.

The Year 13 students did really well. They presented to the whole group of Year 7 and 8 students to start with, asking them questions about what they did during the last visit and reminding them what they talked about.
The Y7 and Y8 students then sat in groups and my senior students worked with groups. They moved around the groups so they could help lots of different students.

On the planning day and as we were travelling there, they were very nervous and two of my students didn't turn up that morning so they could avoid going. The 6 students who went did really really well. Their confidence grew as the students listened to them and followed their instructions as they were demonstrating.

At the end of the session, they didn't want to leave.