Elaine Browne.pdf - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

F: Yes, we interlink most of our stuff....
E: Everything overlaps
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F: Overlaps which is nice, which is nice, but I just, I would like the kids to concentrate more really on the art
processes and art things and really appreciating the art, and realise that art is not just drawings and that type of
thing. But, but the time is too limited. There’s too little time.
Elaine: Do you feel the integration is too much between learning areas?
F: (Nodded, yes.)
Elaine: OK. Anybody else?
G: Ja, for me, it basically is the same with mine, where kids, because we’re doing dance and drama ... like she
said ....
Elaine: But you, you have to have two classes at once?
G: Ja sometimes we have classes together with other teachers and you do not feel comfortable. It is difficult for
the children to move, they bump to each other, and then the whole lesson is upside down. The space is a
problem in our school and then, if we could maybe have the hall, something, maybe whereby you can put two
classes there. You happen to clash you know.
To have another room and then facilities like a tape and the..... so that we don’t have to move in this one, you
see? We got it on the outside as well ... Otherwise the Arts and Culture is very interesting. The children like it.
They like it very much. It is very interesting. They are.... they don’t use their heads... they don’t have to think,
but as I say it is quite an interesting learning area.
H: Ja, mam, I, I do the music setup. Initially the kids ah ... find it a bit complicated when it gets to the rudiments
of music. Hmmm but they’re getting the gist of it now. Ja when you have to deliver to them 5 lines or spaces,
these are the notes. But then you discover that the kids do not even know their alphabet. It is quite a ... ja quite
an eye opener. But ah eventually they, they they start to click and ah because it’s music I sometimes ask them
to bring their own music. So they bring their own music and then they dance to it or they do some movement to
the music, ja, fortunately the school is well resourced in that area. We’ve got a piano, we’ve got the
instruments, it is quite a lot of talent we have.
Elaine: How many instruments do you have?
H: We’ve got bongo drums, flutes, triagles, the normal stuff.
Elaine: Do you have xylophones?
H: Yes, yes we have that.