NEWS: Sharon wows Sampford students 01 Jul 10

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Sharon Warley is a Positively MAD licensee who can rightly feel really proud of herself – recently she delivered her first Creative Approaches to Learning workshop at the Sampford Arundel Primary School and it was such a success that one of the students described it as “very extraordinary”.

Sharon has kindly allowed us to share her letter about her experience at that event and the terrific feedback she received for her efforts.

I had a really successful CAL workshop a few weeks back. It was a very small school with only 29 pupils in total!  I therefore delivered to the whole of KS2 in one go, totalling only 16 pupils.

 I combined the year 3/4 and year 5/6 presentations using some from each and it worked really well - the 'littlies' kept up with the whole thing brilliantly and the whole audience were totally enthusiastic and fully participated right from the start.

 At break time I stepped outside into the playground for some fresh air and was surrounded by the children showing me how they were getting on with 'chop/saw' and 'pointy finger/little finger' etc. and all eagerly asking what was coming up in the second half.  On returning to the classroom, even the teachers were busy trying to master the brain break exercises!

 The Head completed the feedback form before I left and within a couple of hours, I received an e-mail with a brainstorm of comments from the children on their thoughts of the morning which was really lovely.

 The Head also commented that although there are always the obvious one who will be first to put their hands up and shout out, he could not have predicted the others - one little boy in particular who he would not have thought to be so involved was constantly looking to be picked as a volunteer and eager to contribute to everything.

 All in all it was a fab morning and I came home absolutely buzzing.

 This is tremendous news indeed and all of us here at Positively MAD would like to congratulate Sharon on making such a positive impression on everyone involved. Here is what the Head of the school had to say afterwards:

 Dear Sharon

Thank you very much for the session this morning. The children really enjoyed it and rated it very highly as you will see from the brainstorm of their comments (below).

I thought it was thought provoking and full of useful techniques and would highly recommend it to other schools.

Eddie East, Headteacher, Sampford Arundel School

 Sampford Arundel’s Class 2 children on Positively Mad:-

 “It was positively mad”

 “Really funny and really good”

 “It was fun and brilliant”

 “Very extraordinary”

 “It was exciting”

 “It was really good fun”

 “It was fantastic”

 “It will help me to remember things”

 “It gives your brain strange reactions”

 “It was definitely not boring”

 “You will be really surprised at what happens”

 “Very on the edge”

 “Impossible to ignore”

 “Better than 10 out of 10”

 Keep up the good work, Sharon – these comments are awesome.