After the success of last year’s “Take a Risk” week, our teachers once again embraced the challenge of trying innovative, quirky ways to teach the curriculum throughout the week. The wide range of activities created a fantastic energy around school.
- In Mr Green’s Year 8 DT lesson, students took the task of programming outside. They chalked out their code on the ground before guiding a fellow team member through the sequence of instructions. The students then carefully transcribed their coding into their books.
- Linking their study of William Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils’ poem, Mrs Mallin-Cruddace took her Year 7 English class into the open air to collect inspiration from their surroundings to write their own poems.
- In Mr Charlton’s Year 8 Maths lesson, students removed some loose worksheets from their books that are no longer required and turned them into paper aeroplanes. They went outside to measure how far they could be thrown. The data was then turned into a grouped frequency table for them to use as an example for estimating the mean.
- Miss Mulholland’s Year 7 English class designed and created boardgames based on knowledge from their recent study of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
- Miss Leighton’s Year 8 French group tackled paired running dictation with the distraction of French music playing in the background!
- Miss Carruthers postponed the usual PE activity with her Year 8 group to try some archery instead. It was well received by all the students – in fact, it was loved so much they are going to do it again!
- Miss Tilbrook’s Year 7 Geographers had been learning about climate change and became really passionate about the topic. As part of ‘Take a Risk’ week they made climate change protest signs and held a peaceful protest.
- Mr Tanner cleverly incorporated his passion for Lego building into a Year 8 Math’s lesson. Equipping students with a few simple Lego bricks, he challenged them to find the solution to a range to questions using the product rule.
- Geographers in Miss Sanderson’s Year 7 class designed posters. Some alerted to the climate change crisis, while others celebrated the most well-known advocate of Planet Earth, Sir David Attenborough. These will be posted to his fan mail address.
Deputy Headteacher, Mr Trewitt commented: “A huge thank you to all staff who have taken part in Take a Risk Week. There have been so many brilliant lessons happening which have definitely been innovative, exciting and have taken learning ‘outside the box’.”
