Henley River and Rowing Museum trip.

I have been out on 3 trips with different groups over the past 2 weeks as part of the Year 7's Humanities projects.

Students were split into groups of roughly 12-14. The day was split into 3 activities: A history walk around Henley, a tour around the gallery and a Flood workshop.  With the exception of the gallery tour, the other events were led by Museum staff and Academy staff were on hand to support. It was very interesting, particularly watching the Flooding workshop and seeing the students being hands on and learning in a practical and applied manner.

On my first day there I had to deal with one particularly problematic student who caused a bit of a scene. It was all resolved in the end but an experience nevertheless. On this particluar day I was with a group of students whom I have never taught; It just goes to show how effective knowing the students and having a raport with them can be. On the following  two trips I had groups of whom all I taught or part of the group; all the students knew what to expect from me and vice versa, there was no situations like before. The students knew what was expected of them and I knew who to keep a closer eye on shall we say, this was much smoother as a result.