Student Input into the Wall Display on Literacy

I have been working on the display on my back wall so it supports the students with their literacy.
Blog posts about this here :-

Continuing the Literacy Display in my Classroom
Description Burgers

Breaking Down Literacy Strategies

Today, to finish this off for a while, I got the students to help with the last part.

I picked three words that are used most in the descriptions of products - SHAPE, FORM snd TEXTURE. I put these up on the wall and gave all the Year 11 students small pieces of paper to write words linked what those words mean.

This is that section of wall that we completed today.

Here is what the whole literacy support display is looking like at the moment.

The power of having student work on the wall

I have had a collection of student work on the back wall for a while now and the architect posters have been getting added to over the last couple of years. They now show achieved, merit and excellence which is good as I can point out different aspects to the Year 11 group. The students have looked at these quite regularly but I had not realised the impact that having the work on the wall has had on the students until today.
One of my level 1 students said to me today - " are our posters going to go on the back wall miss?"
"yes of course they can!... I will go and print them now" - we still had them online from uploading them to the Google Plus Community.
While i was putting them up... "can mine go in the middle so it is the first one seen?"
"can mine go next to the excellence poster miss, as mine is excellence too then they are both together?"

Here is the finished collection of work. It is a selection of the last couple of years and this year all together.
It is really nice that the students look at the work on the wall and it has had an affect on them and that they have pride in their work and want it to be displayed.