Numeracy - we spent the last two weeks looking at different types of graphs and charts, then did some physical activity to collect data for our own. After writing out our results from last week and discussing what they mean, we created predictions for what a graph of these numbers might show. Students then spent the rest of the lesson plotting and creating their own scatter graphs, to prove their prediction! Literacy - today's focus in literacy was the apocalypse. To change it up a little from last week, students used poetry to write about this theme! After Miss Williamson explained lots of different elements of poetry, such as auditory imagery, students either used an example poem starter or wrote their own independently. Everyone produced some fantastic work. Creativity - last week, we planned out our keyring projects, and today we started to create them! In our Design Technology workshop, students finished off their designs on paper, then chose what colours of acrylic they wanted for their keyrings. Sir then used a machine to cute the materials to sizes, which Heroes then helped students glue together. Here are the Step Up students getting creative:
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Numeracy - we began our numeracy session with a tough challenge - 150 maths questions to race through! All the students did fantastically at challenging themselves with the questions, getting them correct and working together if a task was difficult. After marking our work, we continued last week's project of collecting information - measuring heartbeats after walking and running, to put into graphs. Literacy - our focus in literacy today was the opposite of last week - we were looking at Utopian worlds! After learning what this meant, as a class we brainstormed what makes us happy, and what we liked the least. Each student started to plan what our ideal, Utopian world would be like - what we wanted it to have, and what was banned from that world. We then wrote letters to other students or family members, describing the world we had created using the five senses. Creativity - our new topic in creativity requires a new space for our sessions. Today, we were in the Design Technology workshop! The project for the next few weeks will be to design and create our own personal keyrings, using a symbol that represents ourselves. To begin planning what we'd like on our keyrings, we brainstormed lots of facts about ourselves - such as names, family, pets, and things important to us - on spider diagrams. Some students then moved on to designing the appearance of our keyrings. Here's a slideshow of what we got up to: For the second half of the year at Step Up, we won't have a different theme every week - we'll be running lots of continuous projects! Numeracy - today in numeracy, our project was about all different kinds of charts and graphs. Beginning with pie charts, we investigated some data about people's favourite things, shoe sizes, and masses. Students did a great job of inputting all of this data into pie charts! Mid-session, we went outside to collect some more data from ourselves, by running for a set time then measuring changes in heart rate. Literacy - dystopian society and fiction is our new focus. Miss Williamson introduced the topic with some exciting activities. First of all, we brainstormed as a class some features of dystopian societies, using our knowledge from popular books and films. After watching an intense trailer for one dystopian film, students worked independently on a writing task - a letter to a friend or family member, to describe a society they'd just woken up in. Some brave students read out their fantastic, creative letters to the class. Creativity - continuing the first aid course we began last Saturday, we moved on to learning CPR today! Students began the session by recapping their knowledge of last week's topic, the recovery position, by practising it again on their partners. After we proved we knew the recovery position, we brought out medical dummies to learn CPR on. This was a really important lesson, and students worked really hard to make sure they knew how to perform it, by doing some very focused practising. See below for some highlights: THIS WEEK'S THEME - FIRST AID!On our first week of the new year, we began a theme that we'll be following in our lessons throughout the entire half-term. Creativity - in creativity today, we began our term-long theme, which involves students taking part in a first aid course! It will be run by Heroes and teachers throughout the coming weeks. In our first session, we learned the incredibly important recovery position. See below for the day's activities! |
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