Learning is delightful and delicious …

I’ve spent a lot of time and effort since the beginning of term organising a year 7 trip. More precisely, six year 7 trips. We had the chance to play a Gamelan (a percussion orchestra from Indonesia) which is currently housed at a local school, and seeing that this half-term’s topic is “cultural identity and diversity”, it seemed an ideal way in which to cover that aspect of the curriculum.

I took two classes last week, am taking two more this week and the last two after half term.

Kids are notoriously bad at remembering to bring forms back (well, they are at my school!) and so I’ve reminded and nagged at every possible opportunity – lessons, assemblies, when I’ve seen kids in the playground etc. On Monday I reminded the class I’m taking tomorrow that they needed to get their letters back, and said that the groups I’d taken last week had done very well and that it had been fun.

The response?

“They tole us it woz borin’. All they dun was sit an’ play instruments.”

Er… what? The letter explained where we were going and what we were going to do. It’s a MUSIC trip – what do they expect? To sail the seven seas or scale the north face of the bleedin’ Eiger??

Oh, no, wait. If the kids at my school were given the chance to do that it’d be “too ‘borin’.”

Honestly.

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