Today we had a visit from year five student, Hayley, a former student of Mrs Feher.

The reason we had a visit is because she created a fantastic book about emotions, called ‘This Book is About Emotions). Hayley read her book to the group and answered the various questions they had to ask  about her book.

One student asked, ‘how did you draw the circles so neatly and the same on each page?’

Another student asked her about her  colouring techniques.

Others were interested to hear where Hayley’s inspiration and ideas came from.

After this we talked about different feelings, to give us some ideas for our own work.

Each child selected an emotion, wrote a sentence about the emotion and illustrated the emotion just like Hayley had done in her book. After this they drew their emotion on an egg and put their page inside.

This lesson was a big success and every student was full of excitement! The whole lesson was created with inspiration from Hayley’s book. Hayley was very proud, as was I, as her former teacher.

At the conclusion of the lesson, I explained to 2EF that just like Hayley, they too may be the inspiration for a lesson taught to younger students one day. One student was blown away by this idea and commented, ‘I don’t think that could ever be me,’ but what he doesn’t realise is the incredible growth Hayley has shown since she entered my class in 2021. The idea of this lesson taking place would not have seemed like a possibility for Hayley either.

At Holy Family we make this possible!