Mutai School visit (part 1)

Today's visit to Mutai Secondary School has allowed our students to engage with their Ugandan counterparts in a number of different ways.
The morning session was an art partnership where students from both schools paired up. The aim of this was to encourage interaction and to produce murals from their own thoughts and imagination. The session was led by Angelo, a local artist, who encouraged and cajoled everybody to think freely and express themselves. The initial ideas for each partnership was to produce two individual paintings. The challenge for each pair was then to produce a combination of the two on a canvas.
Quite apart from the obvious aim of producing a 'team' work of art (and there were some excellent exhibits at the end) the session demanded communication between the individuals in each pair and, thus, conversations developed beyond what was being produced on the canvas. It was an inspiring session and many surprised themselves with their final results!