It was another PSHE day today meaning I got to spend every lesson with my wonderful form. The theme was to design and market a new type of chocolate bar, allowing the pupils' creative juices to run freely, the trouble is some seemed to run in very strange directions.
Such as one group who decided to call their product 'sweet' but couldn't spell so were advertising 'really tasty sweats - better than any other sweat around'.
Or the group who called their's 'space chocolate' - which sounded rather too much like a type of hallucinogenic for my liking. Some of the pupils seemed like they had been on the 'space chocolate' themselves but it may have had more to do with being over-stimulated by the brightly coloured paper they were using - bless.
We had choose a winner from the form to go through to the final at assembly and present their product using an advert to the rest of year seven, with an overall winner being chosen by one of the senior members of the Key Stage 3 team. Our winner featured a remake of the Family Guy theme, some ace acting and a healthy mix of chocolate, truffle and caramel. I'm sure it wouldn't be the least but sickly.
The other groups seemed to have gone for slightly more psychotropic confectionary items. The PE NQT's form marketed a selection of sweets to make the consumer energetic or relaxed (uppers and downers), or if you could eat one that sent you on a psychadelic trip. One of the lines in the advert was actually 'are you sure these are sweets?' To be honest I'm not sure they were.
In the end I think this may have swung the judges towards our more innocent choice. Result! You could put it down to the talent and imaginations of the pupils but I rather think of myself as a 'creative inspiration'. Well, I'd like to anyway.












