Head High Heart Strong: Event Day: Outer Space!

Every school year at Namsung they throw four event days in the English department. Last week was our third one of the year. From previous experience I knew what to expect, late nights decorating, lots of last minute of packing goody bags for the kids and tweaking our costumes. For the teachers it's pretty hard going, for weeks before hand you need to drill into the kids songs, dialogues and games they'll perform in each room, repeating the same thing two times an hour for 5 hours a day, and then the late nights planning it before hand, but for the kids I imagine that it's pretty magical.

Our school goes all out and the principle seems to have a never ending pot of money when it comes to the English event days. In the past we've had under the sea and the environment, this year our theme was space, and I was working in the solar system room where we taught the kids the names of the planets. I loved how we decorated our room, we covered it from floor to ceiling in black vinyl (basically bin bags) with neon stars, aliens and rockets dotted all about. The best part was the black light that made everything glow! Amazing! We even fashioned a mini black hole that the kids could enter the room through. It was great to hear their gasps when they walked in and the glow sticks they'd been given really started to radiate.

The other rooms taught the kids the zodiac signs and personality traits, and Tasha's room was based around Captain Planet trying to save the planet, and...erm...the Little Prince? I think everyone was confused by this but Tasha managed to glaze over it by dazzling everyone with her Mother Earth costume.

Even the vice principle got involved, clambering up on the tables and getting the vinyl up, I couldn't help but laugh though as I had Radio 1 playing and Beyonce's Bootylicious came on and he was humming along, not really sure if he knew the direct translation...