Olympic challenge!

We began working on our Olympics topic in middle school today. I went over the plans that pupils had made last week and explained how these would form part of the work in different curricular areas.

Then we began our Olympic Challenge! Pupils will working to improve their personal best time at running the 100m sprint. They will also be looking at their diet, the amount of exercise they do and their recovery rate by keeping a regular record.

Pupils working out their resting pulse:



Measuring and drawing out the course:







Ready to run...




He's off!!!




Everyone worked well and were very enthusiastic:

Collage

Here are some examples of the finished collaged artworks:

Collage!

We looked at a range of contemporary artists who use unusual materials to create 2D and 3D collages. Pupils then discussed a range of ideas and decided to use a variety of found materials from the classroom and the playground.

They collected their materials and began to create their collages. It was great fun, pupils were very enthusiastic and they had some very imaginative ideas:

Curriculum planning!

Middle school were looking at the curriculum for excellence experiences and outcomes this week. They worked in small groups on specific curricular areas to plan a range of activities for our current topic on the Olympics:

Ancient Olympics!

Middle school are starting a new topic on the Olympics in Social Studies. This dovetails nicely with our study on democracy as the ancient Greeks used a system of democracy similar to ours. Before learning about the modern games the class are learning about the formation of the ancient games.




Today, they have learnt about the Greek city states and how the games started as a way of avoiding war between them! Now, one group is researching the city states...


One group is researching the very first games...




And another group is researching the different events held at the games...




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Under pressure!

Middle schoolers are learning about pressure groups today. They're going to investigate this question 'do pressure groups undermine democracy?'

Here are the boys demonstrating how pressure works!!












We have also been Watching examples, creating definitions and writing topic sentences for our homework task: 'how do pressure groups influence the government?'












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Happy Easter

Thank you to so many parents and friends who attended our Easter Service. I'm sure you'll agree that the children's readings and singing went very well. We wish you a blessed Easter and look forward to seeing you on the 23rd April.


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