For the past week (or so) I have been undertaking a project that many thought amazing. My current boss another teacher and I all work part of our time in a room that used to belong to the school nurse in days gone by. These days it is a weird sort of space, no opening windows (the frosted glass in the fixed windows is broken-only held together by the wire embedded in it) an aged exhaust fan fitted into the window (but doesn't work-just lets in cold air in winter), at the end of a long corridor, with years of dust, resources, files etc that had no order to it.
Last week I asked the gentleman in question, if he had any problems with me sorting it out. He said no, as long as anything you want to throw away, you run by me first. It took 2 days and some sweet-talking, but I got a long way...so much so that when he saw it, he realised what could be done and how good it would look. So when I asked if I could spend money on the project he agreed! I only spent about $130 but it went from looking like a storage cupboard to the above...he is now talking about actually going through all the resources and paperwork and culling because with order restored and workspace available, he feels it is now achievable-rather than seeming to be a job far too big to even contemplate.
The above pics (OK I cheated by using 2) show the finished product...unfortunately I didn't take 'before' photos, but to give an idea, pretty much every surface was cover with toys and other resources. The room was so 'busy' that when you took a child in there to work, they had no idea where to look as there were so many distracting items! There is now order, and appropriate visual aides to convey it as a learning space rather than a storage room bursting at the seams!
Even though I only have 3 weeks left in this job, I really feel I have made a positive mark on the place!
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