Session 9 Piara Waters - Andrea and Jasmine Year 7 Maths

Due to a surprise assembly we skipped the warm up today.

Today was the culmination of the food drive we ran last term. We had Jennifer Keen, State Manager of Oz Harvest come to collect the food and we told her about the exercises we did last term on food insecurity. Jennnifer threw some more interesting statistics our way and we did a quiz. Jennifer gave out some brightly coloured and patterned food tape to help reduce waste to the winners. Then the kids helped her carry the food down to the yellow van with black graphics all over it. 

This week we did the reflection passport from the resource document. The kids were asked to think about the creative habits and how they had individually used them to participate in the activities in the program. They thought about what passport “stamps” they would like to collect next.

We had a few unforeseen holdups with this session, originally planned at the end of term 2 and then again at the beginning of term 3. In retrospect it would be good to plan this kind of thing well in advance.

This was a really nice culmination of the work we did last term. It really cemented the importance of statistics for the students in a real world context. The work they did in designing the flyers for the food drive came to fruition with about 20 bags and boxes collected and donated! 

Next sessions are mostly planned but Jasmine sourced some pumpkin hand puppets that we can integrate into coming weeks.

Jasmine is sending out a worksheet for next week.

School facebook 

Compass (intranet) to raise awareness with families 

Andrea and Jasmine to share photos with each other via google drive