It has been several weeks since I have posted a blog which I can only put down to the very busy summer we have had. Despite the struggling tourism sector, Louisa’s Walk is still growing. Thank you to all our loyal supporters! There is much to talk about including our new sister production Her Story and our fabulous, new actors we have working for us but, I’ll leave that for another post. This one is about our first school visit for the year.
Last Wednesday Angela Hade Harris brought her Grade Fives for the second year running together with the other Grade Five class at St Michael Collegiate School. As last year, the students had gone to a lot of effort to dress and look the part; there were all sorts of mob caps, shawls and long skirts – no doubt mum’s wardrobe had been raided! The weather was chilly but as I
A Creative Maths Lesson.
have often said, that helps to make the atmosphere more vivid.
The girls asked some great questions afterwards during the question time we offer immediately the performance is finished. These questions are a good guide to the fact the students have not only taken in the information but have thought it through. A couple of days later Angela sent the montage shown here which she and her class had made during some creative use of a maths session. Who says maths has to be boring?
Our First School for the Year - St Michael's CollegiateThe Montage of St Michael Collegiate's Work after Louisa's Walk
