Bag Me One of Those

Just two GREAT examples from our groups Bag Me One of Those project, which was completed in just shy of TWO hours, isn't that amazing!

The rules are:

1. You're not allowed to say no, everyone does the same activities, even if you find them really hard.
2. You have a go at EVERY activity set.
3. Try to work within the time limits set.
4. Only make positive comments about other's work.

And what a great job our REALISE participants did, some fantastic self portraits from memory along with some kind adjectives, strong literacy work and an all round positive group vibe!

Nice one gang, see you later on for our next installment!

Bag Project

On Friday last week, the group was set a challenge... We were all going to do a burst (one session) project together. The rules are that everyone is to complete the same tasks within the same time limit and that noone is allowed to say no or I'm not doing that.

Sounds pretty hard right? And you are correct it is a challenge but our REALISE group members got through it and produced these AMAZING bags as seen in the previous photo post! Well done guys and gals!

Not only that but we could identify individual skills and techniques that had been used and recognize the value of practicing these! Brill!

Next week... Me But Better!

Reflection time

After we had finished our bags, we worked through a series of five questions that got us to look at how and why we had created the bags.

First this was completed independently and then this was built upon as a group. When the reflection time was completed, we then decided to create a reflective piece of work to contain all of this really valuable information. These kids of pieces of work are great for future portfolios and also for Arts Award!

Here are Jess's and Lauren's reflection sheets.

Jess reflects on her bag.

Lauren reflects on her bag.

The finished bags!

Bag Me One of Those!

Bag Me: Week Two

After the massive success last week with the bag project we continued with this project, working a little deeper into the core skills of the work.

Everyone added things into their bags that represented different parts of who they are and added their name to the bottom of the bag to complete their "take away me."

Lauren adding bits of herself into the bag!

Bags: Week One (Jess and Lauren)

Lauren's Self Portrait

Jess's Eulogy

Bag Me One of Those!

This week we made start on a project where you have to recreate yourself...as a bag!


There has been some great self portraiture work along with some really lovely peer comments that are boosting esteem and motivation throughout the group.


My camera has decided to have a wobble and has randomly deleted the pictures of the work that I had taken. As such, I will follow this post with some pictures when I can take some more on Wednesday.


More to follow then!