The assessment

Getting ready for the assessment meant looking through all the work from the two terms, labelling the worksheets, putting them into the specified order in the portfolio. It was helpful to review what we'd done, and how I felt about doing it, and how it might have been done differently. Which probably should be the point of this kind of exercise. But mostly it was a matter of meeting the deadline for having it all pulled together - it seemed like an endless task. The portfolio had 46 sheets - rather fewer, it turned out, than many other people, but even so it was fairly heavy as well as being awkward.

The "peripherals" were even heavier. The hastily-augmented colour sketchbook; the ordinary sketchbook; the folder with all the information we'd been given over the two terms; A4-sized items that couldn't be left to drift around in the portfolio. And the Self Reflective Journal ... which started out as the standard-issue red notebook (see pic above) into which we were to write what we did each day in class. A way of getting people to keep notes! For me, it morphed into a combination of my "everything notebook" and printouts of the blog posts, printed 2 pages to a sheet and bound into japanese-style books.

Waiting for our allotted 20-minute slots ...And then it was over ... a bit of a postmortem with whoever was around, a chat about the summer homework ("collections" - fill a sketchbook), and taking portfolios and bags home again.

Later, in the pub, more postmortems, and colourful experiences through the Victorian windows -