The Non-Residential Visit

On June the 8th 2009, a small amount of children came to school- not because they were ill but they were on a school trip, in Bude (for the whole week!) However, it is not really fair if the pupils in Bude had all the fun so, instead of the standard numeracy and literacy, the children who didn't go to Bude got to design a t-shirt for the pupils leaving Year 6. To succeed in this lesson, the children split in groups of 3 or 4 and chose a place to take a picture of. Then they planned what it was going to roughly look like and who was going to be in it. Of course, they showed this rough sketch to the teacher who then decided if they were ready or not to take pictures of the selected place. When the teacher said it was ok, they went where ever they needed to go. But, it wasn't as simple as taking a couple photo's, no. What they needed to do is take photo's all over the area staying in one place! To make this easier, they had to spin around slowly and take pictures looking down, then normally, then to the sky. This was extremly creative, this made me glad that I didn't go to Bude.

Once they finished, (which most groups done after break) they had to take pictures of people in the posses they want them to be in. Most groups took pictures of both staff members and the people not in Bude. Once everyone has finneshed taking their photo's, they merged the photo's into on picture on the t-shirt. Right know the t-shirts are beng made for the Year 6 leavers. I think this made most people very excited to get there t-shirts back.

After lunch, the childrens got into different groups to plan a stop motion film we are going to present to the infants. We had to choose a children story, and if they wanted to do something made up, they first had to write a script for it wich some groups did. After they chose the story, they had to paint a back ground for the film wich took most of the afternoon but it gave us just anough time to play basketball. The rules were first team to score stays on and the team who canceeded the goal comes of for another team. There were three teams wich made it easy to know who was coming on when there was a goal. This was so much fun, I lost count of the points but I think everyone had a lot of fun for a day. For the final half an hour of the day, we did singing assembaly wich I think calmed down after a really fun day.

However, we still were excited because we have had (and played) the Nintendo Wii in our classroom. On the Nintendo Wii, we did a contest to see who could get the highest score on Wii Sports bowling it was pretty close but there was a winner, I know everyone can't wait for more Wii contest.