Visit to Quainton Hall School

I taught the Year 6 all-boys class of eighteen pupils a forty minute lesson on proverbs. Using a small piece of paper, a pencil, and an evergreen leaf outline, the pupils were told to draw round the leaf, letter their proverb within its perimeter, and then to cut it out, perforating round the edge with the pencil point. Each leaf was then glued to a small ‘Proverbs Bush’ drawn on the brown bag which had brought the leaves to the school. Comment: Not a jot was wasted in the lesson, either of time or opportunity, to explain the proverbs. These were: Silence is golden, Every cloud has a silver lining, Still waters run deep, Necessity is the mother of invention, A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, Make hay while the sun shines, Where there’s a will there’s a way, There’s many a slip ’twixt the cup and the lip, Once bitten, twice shy, A rolling stone gathers no moss, Look before you leap, Many hands make light work.

I went on to a Year 2 class, which had learned of Remembrance Sunday and its significance the previous terms. Using small 1940s art sketching books, the children drew tanks, aeroplanes and rural scenes.

www.quaintonhall.harrow.sch.uk

Good Morning Class!