THIS WEEK'S THEME - SUPERHEROES!Today we welcomed this year's new Step-Up group - all of the Heroes and Staff have had a fantastic first day working with them, and we're all excited for the rest of the year! To the new parents and carers reading this blog - welcome to Step Up, and we hope your child has a fantastic time here. This blog will be updated every weekend that Step Up runs. In the same way Step Up ran last year, students will engage in three sessions throughout the day - Numeracy, Literacy and Creativity - plus a break time with sports activities. Here's what they got up to in their first week: Numeracy - Following our week's 'superhero' theme, students had to defeat evil villains in this session, by using multiplication to work out how many superheroes were needed. Afterwards, we split into small groups to design a numeracy based game - some of us created prototypes based on classic board games, and some of us made up some inventive new ideas! Literacy - after playing a 'guess who' game as a whole group, we put our descriptive writing skills to the test! Miss Caine read us a detailed passage about a story character, and using all of the descriptions mentioned, we drew what they looked like in our heads. We then swapped it around - picking favourite fictional characters, and describing them in our own words. Creativity - this was where we created our own superheroes! After reading about some well known comics and movie characters with Miss Smith-Henry, students set off designing their dream superhero - based on somebody, or completely made up. After writing a profile about our superheroes, including their story, strengths and weaknesses, we then designed their costumes using Marvel's online superhero generator. View the slideshow below to see our students enjoying their first sessions!
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It's hard to believe we're about to begin our third year of Step-Up! This programme has gone from strength to strength, and everyone on the team is excited to see what this third year will bring.
We cannot wait to welcome new year seven students into our Saturday sessions and see them grow and develop - there are so many great things in store! To our new parents and students - welcome to Step Up. We hope you're as eager as we are to get started. Below is this year's calendar. This highlights every Step Up session, as well as our special events, the Winter Showcase and Graduation. Please note that Hero training is for Heroes only, not year seven pupils. See you on the 24th! |
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