Session 8 - Somerly Primary School Year 3 - Health and Technologies

Trust - collaboration, discipline, persistence, imagination (best done outside)

1. Stand opposite a partner who is the same height as you

2. Place your palms together with your partner

3. How far can you move your feet backwards while still pressing up against your partner’s palms?

Recording

1. Get into your filming groups of 4 (1 group of 5)

2. Each group will be provided with an ipad and instructions on how to set up the ipad, record and watch the recording

3. Your Creative Habits play must have

• A location where the ipad can be placed without moving

• Introduction of characters - this can be by using names during the filming or you could do it like a movie does creating a title page and character names

• A time of at least 60 seconds but not longer than 2 minutes

• Follow the story mountain - introduction, problem, solution

• Include the use of a creative habit

1. Watch each of the videos (it doesn’t have to be finished). What is one thing you liked and two things that could make it even better?

Make a flower for someone else

1. Choose someone in your group

2. What creative habit do you think they used the most today and how

3. Make them a flower that represents this

Successes 

• Doing activities over two weeks is giving the students the opportunity to reflect on what succeeds and what would make it better, and then implement discipline and persistence in the second session

• Aleesha answered questions and made suggestions for improving some of the videos. This is the first time she has given any feedback in class and she put her hand up to do it. 

• Michael was able to wait until a discussion was finished before taking a break. This is the first time he has been able to implement that strategy.

• Collaborating in their groups is being achieved really well. One group only had 2 people today but this gave them the opportunity to work together successfully and problem solve, something that was more difficult for the group last week when there was 4 people

Challenges

• They are so excited sometimes it is difficult for them to stop and listen to eachother

Francis is using his creative habits and made himself a pencil case out of paper which he was excited to show. Ava made a game during her 10 minutes of free time because she realised that her partner was in the same creative group as her so she decided to use her creative habits to design a game. Doing a reflection for someone else, although not completely successful for everyone, did give them the opportunity to consider another person and how they were displaying creative habits. Aleesha is attending school every Wednesday which is a big change to her very low attendance. When she is at school, she wears either a oodie or a oversized jumper that she retreats into. Today we noticed that when she was comfortable, the jumper would come off to reveal her school uniform. It seems that this could be signifying how she is feeling in herself. Each time she actively wanted to participate in something, even giving feedback or coming and sitting with me and having a conversation about colours and creative habits, the jumper was removed.

They are showing more persistence in their attempts in their school work. Even in assessments yesterday, they continued to try even when it was difficult… Katy (Teacher)

I did Audrey’s reflection and I chose all of the creative habits because she was doing them all …Ava

My puppet show was the most successful because I didn’t think we would finish it and that people would like it … Francis

Making the videos is good because it’s fun and you get to think about what you can do …Aleesha

The puppet show was the most challenging because it was hard to guide people to do their roles … Francis

Trying to do the filming was hard because everyone kept putting their hands and feet in … Aleesha