We are halfway through our 2016-17 Step Up year! To celebrate, today we had our Winter Showcase, and started off our day with some special sessions. Numeracy - today's numeracy lesson was in the food tech room: following our session last week, we took the recipes and the numbers we'd calculated, and started baking. We split into small groups and measured out our ingredients to bake some food to eat while we celebrate later. Each group made either cookies or cupcakes, and did a great job! Creativity - we spent our morning in creativity creating decorations! With festive music playing in the background, we did some arts and crafts to make our showcase look colourful and exciting. Some of us made huge paper chains following a pattern of colours, and others drew or coloured in some wintery images. We then invited our parents, carers and friends in for the last half of the day, to enjoy our showcase! Some students stood up in front of the audience to read out their speeches, and it was wonderful to see how their confidence has grown. After some special Step Up badges and prizes were given out, our families and friends were invited to take a look at all of the work we've been doing since September - and of course try the food we'd baked earlier. The showcase was a really successful event, and we hope everyone involved with Step Up enjoyed it! A huge thank you to the staff and Heroes who have done loves of work behind the scenes to run Step Up for the first half of this year. See you all in 2017! See photos from our Winter Showcase below!
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THIS WEEK'S THEME - WINTER SHOWCASE PREPARATION!This was our penultimate week of the term before the winter holidays - so it was all about getting ready for the fantastic winter showcase we will be having next week! Numeracy - today's numeracy session helped us to prepare for the food we will be making for our winter showcase next Saturday. To get our mathematical brains warmed up, we started the session by defining key terms in maths, such as addition and division. We were then given a recipe for burgers, which we will be cooking next week, and tasked with working out how much of each ingredient we will need for a larger number of burgers. It was a difficult challenge, but everyone gave it their best efforts and did some brilliant work! Literacy - today, our literacy session was run by Esther, one of our Heroes, and she delivered some fantastic activities that everybody enjoyed. We started off by sitting in a circle, closing our eyes and imagining our favourite moments from winter and holiday celebrations, then shred these all with the group using descriptive language. To prepare for the winter showcase next week, students then chose their favourite memories and stories from their year at Step Up so far, and put them into a speech. These speeches were absolutely fantastic, and it'll be exciting to hear some of them presented to parents and teachers next week. Creativity - of course, we couldn't have a winter showcase without all of the family, friends and teachers we'll be inviting to see our work. So, our creative task today was to make some invitations! Whilst some students chose to draw theirs on paper, most created their cards using Microsoft Publisher, learning some great new computer skills whilst making some festive invitations. Students will be taking home their invitations to family and friends, and we cannot wait to welcome everyone to Step Up next week for our celebration. Here are our Step Up students preparing for the showcase: Our first trip of the year was to The Crystal, to learn about the environment and clean energy. It was a fantastic day! After meeting up at Oasis Academy Shirley Park for breakfast, 24 of our students accompanied our teachers and student Heroes on a trip to Central London. The place we were visiting was The Crystal, a conservation education centre near the O2 arena, but to get there we had to use the Emirates Airline. Splitting up into our smaller groups, we travelled in cable cars on the Emirates Airline, across the River Thames. We soared over the river and gained a fantastic birdseye view of London, where we could see the entire city from above. The Crystal is a new, modern and interactive place to learn about the environment all over the world. There are lots of different activities across two floors, involving touch screens, futuristic installations and interactive film experiences. One favourite of the students was the Santander Bikes, which we could all cycle on to see how much energy we could generate to power technology. All of the activities were linked in some way to the einvornment, whether it was to do with learning facts about pollution, or ways in which we could use energy in a more sustainable way. Overall, it was a really exciting day for everyone who attended! We hope all of the students were able to gain a new perspective on sustainable energy and the environment, through the fun activities we engaged in. View the slideshow below to see what our day was like, in pictures! |
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