Year 8 have two sets activities to complete; one on I am Learning (skeletal system revision) and Mathletics (averages and pie charts). These need to be completed for Friday morning at 8.30. Please see the sheet attached on Google Classroom with your mathletics on login details.
Category : Being Human
Students will need to spend a minimum of one hour working on their speech between now and Monday. Students can feel free to email me if they have specific queries or questions.
The Year 8 Presentation of Learning for students current expedition will take place on the evening of the 6th and 7th December.
We will have more details on exact timings in due course.
It is really important that every student attends, and has someone from their family come to the event to celebrate the incredible work that they are doing.
The Year 8 expedition team.
Students have been set 3 tasks to complete as Extended Study over the half term.
Artist research on the work of Joseph Cornell, students must start a google doc entitled ‘What does it mean to be human?’ Adding in their thoughts so far regarding the guiding question and finally a statistics assignment where they will need to analyse their fitness testing data using averages.
Year 8 have been creating beautiful styrofoam models of skeletal joints in the Design and Technology workshop as part of their ‘Being Human’ expedition. Here you can see examples of ball and socket joints in the hip where the femur joins the pelvis. There are also some hinge joints based on knee and elbow joints and a saddle joint based on a knuckle.
The students worked really hard over two days to learn how to cut and shape the styrofoam and we’re really proud of their products!
Students have been set the following task on Google Classroom:
The American Civil War was one of the main causes of the end of slavery in the USA. Watch the following video and note down any questions you have ready for Monday’s session.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/ztch34j