Subiaco Primary School- Jennie and Tanya

Three teams in a line. The three at the front of the line are given a word/ action eg swimming, elephant, tennis, and then they pass it down the line one by one. Person at the end once shown needs to keep what they think the answer is quiet until the big reveal, was it passed down? Did we pass it down differently but come to the same answer? 

Box mountain installation formation: working out the maths. Need 11.5m3 of boxes to equal to our current cumulative clothing collection. 

Each student measures the size of their box/boxes 

We tally up the maths of the whole thing, do we have enough boxes?

We stopped at 3 million cm 3 and they potentially will keep working on it through the week. 

Commissioned them all as now mural artists. This is your building that needs to be painted. 

20 mins graffiti time decorating the boxes with what has impacted them so far/ what they have learnt. 

·      What has shocked you?

·      What has surprised you?

·      Learned so far? 

·      How does this make you feel? 

·      Any super words that you remember from last week?

·      Any further questions you have? 

Have a gallery walk around the mountain. 

Today we had a gallery walk around the boxes, and then moved our bunting triangles, interestingly now the students are wanting to have multiple habits chosen at the same time. 

Then they did some reflections in their journals and Vanessa, Jennie and I discussed the future ideas for the project. 

Was a great success, as always I struggled with the time limit and wanting to do more and more things taking time. But on the whole was a beautiful session. 

I did have one of the students after the session check with me if we were going to be measuring boxes next week and she looked relieved when I said no. So I think an element of this lesson had a big challenge to it as it was year 6 level maths working on volume! But they really rose to the challenge and I think the installation will be a great way to really show the scale of their clothing collection, and perhaps lead to questioning and reflection amongst the wider community on their clothing collections. 

Next session;

• Maybe filming with the boxes? What we missed today? 

• And then starting to make their films with their groups. 

• Potentially some of the students making the music? 

• OR Overalls? Have a shift of focus/ have a break from the boxes and filming.. 

• Overalls (Jennie) 

• Patches of fabric for the patches and decorations. Remida?/ clothing already collected? 

• Buttons? Remida? 

• Maybe they could plan a clothes swap? 

• …lots of ideas, will have a bit of a think about next week and the remaining weeks of the term we have left. 

Jennie is presenting to the staff tomorrow.