Creativity

Sometimes as teachers, we expect children to be creative when we ourselves may feel lacking in creativity. Children can teach us a lot about creativity. They aren’t afraid to make mistakes. They are excited and enthused to have a go. I often think back to Lisa’s first visit with us when she told us she was a dance artist. My initial thought? What will our end product be…a thought many teachers have. Lisa through our last 7 art sessions though has taught me that sometimes, life is more about the journey, rather than the destination. Whilst we, as teachers have deadlines to meet and evidence to show, Lisa has taught me to take a step back, to slow things down and to enjoy the little things. Time is often precious for teachers and we like to rush things on. Lisa has taught us in P2 and 3 to take time to explore, to experiment, to describe, create and appreciate.

It has been an absolute joy to see the children take our creative dance project with Lisa onboard, to be so engrossed in their movements and so focused that nothing else can distract them. Each dance group has a story to tell about nature, growth and re-growth, even deforestation sneaks in. We have explored our senses, forested outside and experimented with colour and mark making. Recently I was fortunate enough to be invited to an Assembly Gathering event in Belfast. An event where women with natural creative minds could meet, work, chat and inspire. We had the wonderful opportunity to work with Colour and Cloth to dye silk scarves with natural forested materials, a gifted idea for our art project. Today, we forested for buds, mud, flowers, grass, ivy and berries to create colour and marks on paper, this will lead to us dyeing scarves with our forested goodies to add to our dance…along with our leaf tattoos of course!

The lesson learnt? It’s important that we all take a little time to explore our own creativity.

About Leanne Kyle

Hi, I'm Miss Kyle. I teach P2/3 at Aughnacloy Primary School. Aughnacloy is a small town on the border in Co. Tyrone. I love to kayak, hike, travel and take photographs so I'm hoping I can use this interest well here on my online journal! We are all so excited to be working with Lisa and can't wait to get started!
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