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Imagination Station

Creativity is an important part of every student’s education and the teaching staff at Atsemba Grade 1-8 Community School is making strides to ensure that students are given the creative training and space that they need to thrive.

Atsemba’s Grade 1 teacher, Lemlem, explains further:

“We participated in imagine1day’s Creative Classroom Program and realized that art should be a part of all of our subjects. Now we integrate drawing and collages into different lessons to help the students understand concepts and remember material better. Working with the students through creative activities has taught me that there are many other reasons to continue doing art in our classes:

• Students develop their self-confidence to express their unique ideas and share their creations with their classmates.
• Students draw what they study and this visual aid helps them to remember what they have learned.
• It provides students with a new outlet to explain what they see and experience.
• Some students reflect their ideas and knowledge better through drawing than they do through writing.
• Many of our students have a vision to be an artist. Giving them the chance to draw and be creative in class helps them to develop and explore this vision.”

Creative Classrooms Teacher, Desta, showing young students the world of art.

Creative Classrooms Teacher, Desta, echoes Lemlem’s opinions. “Art is one of the best ways for children to express themselves,” Desta explains. “Children see and experience many things, often things that they don’t always know how to describe with words. Art is a chance for them to explain all those things. They dream of different things and imagine different things – here they are given a space to share all of these things and more.”

Watch a video of Lemlem explain how teaching art in schools can give students the support they need to open up new possibilities for their future.