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I have decided that for my Fine Art in Society module, I will do my placement at Washington Comprehensive School. After emailing back and forth with Dawn Youlden, Head of Art, Head of Teacher Training and Cover Manager at the school, I set up the placement for my non-timetabled days at university - Mondays and Wednesdays. This is somewhere I am familiar with as I attended this school, and the teachers were very welcoming and happy for me to carry out my module work there. In order to do this placement I had to file for a standard DBS check through gov.uk. On my first day, I assessed the space in the school that I could position my work. The school is split into 4 coloured areas, an assembly hall and a cafeteria or the 'pit stop' as it is formally known. The blue area is humanities, IT and MFL. The green area is Maths and English. The red area is Technology and Creative Arts and the yellow area is PE and sciences. When I asked about this, the head teacher informed me that he was supplying a grant to the art department and asked if I could help to carry out a range of projects to put more artwork around the building. Since the building was opened in 2009, not much effort was put into decoration so it still appears quite bare and clinical due to its empty white walls. I started to draw up plans in addition to my original plans, that would allow each project to correlate with a section of the school and was inclusive of the students.