The students of St James School in Aranui, Christchurch, and I spent our first Creative Coaching Writing session together this morning. After a rousing powhiri in Samoan and Maori the small group of children that I am going to work with over the next few weeks joined me in the library. Today's session was mainly an opportunity to get to know one another and to find out what our expectations are of each other. The main purpose of our time together is to write and design a book on making an edible garden. Most of the students in the school have had experience of doing this and there are some good examples of raised vegetable gardens in the school grounds. Some members of the group have ideas for fantasy stories that involve gardening and we might be able to incorporate one or more of these into our final book. This could be a challenge and might prove to be too difficult but if it is successful it could be an interesting mix.
We finished the session at 12.30pm and I left the group with some research tasks that included finding ways of making compost, ways of sowing seed and finding Samoan and Maori words and beliefs associated with gardening.
We will meet again for another morning session on Monday 9th August.
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