Decorating the English classroom

Today at lunchtime I, along with Cveta and Adam, have finally finished 'furnishing' the English classroom: a while ago we had volunteered to help out our English tutor by putting up the wall displays and necessary information, such as the IB learner profile and the various literary terms; not only did we want to enrich the room, but we also wanted to aid our teacher with a task which could easily be completed sans them having to devote their time to it. We were given full freedom to decide where and how to place the array of colourful sheets, hence we tried to make the best use of the space available to us. In the end, the class ended up looking a little brighter than its usual black and white colour palette:

The beautifully presented literary expressions

Primarily, we struggled to coordinate our actions since two or even all three of us would just be doing the cutting, for example, which left nobody to take care of actually putting up the sheets. After a while though, we were able to organise ourselves much more efficiently so that I was in charge of the trimming, Adam would apply the white-tack to the papers, and Cveta placed everything up on the walls. We also had some issues with the printing of the material as we misunderstood the intentions of our teacher for us to bring in the pieces ourselves, and later that day we were unable to use the printing facilities in the school; all of this had slowed us down, which eventually led to us taking two lunchtimes to complete this easy task.

The captivating IB learner profile

If we were to perform a similar task again, we should definitely clarify everything with our pundits prior to commencing, and we must ensure that we have all the required information. Furthermore, we will have to assign roles to each member of the group in order to terminate the task quicker; this would be especially relevant if we had only been given limited time to complete the activity. We could also take care to plan the positioning of the material so that everyone would know exactly what to do without having to consult neither each other nor the educator, consequently not disrupting them from their work. 

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