Session 15 - Somerly Primary School Year 3 - Jodie Davidson & Katy Hough

1. What is your favourite warm up?

2. What do we need to do the warm up?

3. Can you organise it?

1. Do you think the map is starting to look more interesting? If you could visit any place on the map, where would it be?

2. What else should we add?

3. In pairs, your challenge is to create a 30 second news report/advert for a place on the map to persuade people to go there. Each group must choose a different place.

   1. Why should people visit this place?

   2. What is there to see?

   3. What is there to do?

   4. What is the weather like?

   5. How long would it take to get there from Perth?

4. You must both share the talking

Recording (if time allows)

• Record a presentation

• Utilise the images on the map and hands or pointers to explain

• Begin each video with a title and reporter names.

Video (if possible)

1. What was your favourite part of Creative Schools?

2. What part didn’t you like?

3. What would you like to change?

Successes

• The students' ability to work together and combine their ideas to create a warm up activity.

• Student suggestion of working in groups of 3 collaborating with people you don’t normally work with

• Student suggestion of mixing the groups so that they weren’t all boys or girls

• Success and complete immersion in the warm up activity

• Creating their persuasive video even though some were better than others, each group tried and the one student who felt it wasn’t working in his group, worked independently, conducting his own research and creating his own video

• The amount of note taking and writing they did in their groups, even though that wasn’t the expectation

Challenges

• Time - it was a much longer session because they needed time to work on their presentations, film them and then be able to watch and reflect. 

The growth in them as both individuals and also collaboratively from the start of the program is clearly visible. They are able to work together, in most cases, regardless of who they are partnered with. They are completing large amounts of writing whereas at the beginning of term 2, and even earlier this term, they would avoid it. They are communicating much more effectively with each other, pushing themselves and even when they don’t get it right, they will try again. Although, at times they might take a little longer to settle, they have improved greatly and generally appear to want to succeed. Today was a beautiful celebration of someone else’s presentation. The very last video about Tasmania was funny, engaging and had covered each of the points we had set out and was definitely the stand out amongst the rest. Rather than be deflated, the class clapped.

‘That made me want to go to Tasmania!’...student