Hello Everybody, Madalena asked me to upload some photos of their work on “Time” they did before the summer holidays. You can find some planning documents of their work in the category “Planning Documents”, too. Greetings to all of you, Annette
Hello everybody! How was the holidays? We have returned with great enthusiasm to work. We are working on the Challenge Project now and the secundary class has started hunting Pokemons. They said… Our challenge are very cool. We’re pokemon hunters. We try to find here around the school a lot of pokemons with pokemon go game. We’re trying to request a Pokeparade near the school.
The dog class investigated the topic elements with the focus on water as an essential element of life. During the first part of the teaching unit the pupils learned that there is a crucial difference between fresh water and salt water. In addition they acquired knowledge about the different animals and plants that live either in the ocean or in lakes. The highlight was the second experimental teaching unit with water. The pupils made many different physical experiments to answer the following questions: – Which items can swim and which…read more
The Tiger-Class decided to work with the elements water and earth (sand). After a very stressful time in class we enjoyed to plan 3 project days. On the first day we’ve spent the morning at the public pool. As a highlight we were able to organize the slide to open up. The children really enjoyed it. Later we worked in art with brickearth that the children were able to find in our schoolgarden. They shaped cars, boats and lots of different things. Later they wrote little cards about their objects…read more
In art lessons, the students of the polar bear class used papier-mâché and color to create their own volcano. In an experiment with baking soda, vinegar and red food coloring we created a volcanic eruption by a chemical reaction. That was impressive and exciting. Bianca, the teacher, found this idea in the posts of our Portuguese friends and used it for her class. Thank you for giving us the good idea :)!
No, it’s Batman and Robin! They came to our big planning meeting to teach us about flight and everyone got together to think about different aspects of flying. Our Deputy Head Teacher, Sally and our Admin Assistant, Lee did great jobs of embodying the role of a caped crusader. Plenty of laughs were had and we really got thinking about what we would like our children to learn. Each team has a specific subject that they would need to communicate to the whole group. Props were provided and all of…read more
Each half term, our teachers produce planning documents which set out learning objectives and themes for the coming weeks. You can see examples of these documents for our Weather theme by clicking on the title of this post.
We asked staff about the views on the project and how we planned together. We put our views together and made a summary. You can see the document by clicking the title of this post. Weather Project Staff Survey
Everyone had lots of fun exploring their Weather themes. Click the title of this post to see some of the fantastic work our children produced.
The Dales School would like to wish everyone a fantastic well-earned break! We congratulate children on their achievements throughout the school year and hope for every success for leavers in their new schools and colleges. Obviously, this is a busy time of year, but we promise to update you on our activities in the coming week. Stay tuned!
