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I gave the students a questionnaire in the class following the field trip. I wanted to find out what they had found most interesting and what direction we may go in. The questions I asked were:
1. What did you find most interesting on the field trip?
2. What aspects of the field trip would you like to explore further?

Some of the answers were as follows:
“All the graffitie on the bridge, and the swans on the river.”
“I would like to go on the bridge and draw the view off it.”

“The walls and the different colour righting and the view was lovely you could see everything.”
“I would like to do it again sometime it was lovely.”

“How the building were place and all the water and swans were surarounded the building.”
“I would like to explore more about the nature or the building.”

“I found the buildings and the designs on the walls very interesting.”
“I would like to explore the nature of it.”

“I really was interested when we went on there the bridge, there were a lot of words written in all shapes that was amazing.”
“I wan to go throu that tonal of trees it would be very nice.”

“I thought, when you looked across the water and saw all the buildings on the water front, the graffiti and the trees next to the river were very interesting.”
“The long walkway just past the bridge. I would love to go back and sketch it.”
Later in that lesson I got the girls to stick up their work and we had a discussion about our findings and the work made by the students.
The students took it in turns to write the questions and answers on the sheet. They enjoyed doing this and all wanted to have a go, although it was very time consuming as all the students wrote very slowly as, I believe, they wanted the writing to be very neat and tidy!

This is how the ideas wall is looking so far.

The class was split into two groups;

1. Structures

2. Textures

Unfortunately we only had two sheets of glass in this lesson but I have some more for the next class so there will not be as much delay.

“My talent as an artist is to walk across a moor, or place a stone on the ground.”

A Line Made by Walking, Richard Long.

Earthquake Circle, 1991, Richard Long

Stone Line, 1980, Richard Long

Walking and Marking, Richard Long

Africa Footprints, 1986, Richard Long