Students have an I am Learning task to complete focusing on the hydrological cycle. Students will need to achieve 85% on this task.
The deadline for this task is Tuesday 10th January
Category : 9 Humanities & Art
Students in both Skipper and Admiral have had the opportunity to receive individual critique and guidance on their speeches. Over the extended weekend students will now need to work on this critique and ensure they have a completed speech for Tuesday 29th November.
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.
Keep on moving final product
As part of the year 8 ‘Keep on moving’ expedition in 2015/16 students produced artwork influenced by their chosen artist along with a figurative poem. The final product is this beautiful ebook showing each students poem and artwork.
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To find out more about this expedition follow this link.
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
Students have been set the following extended study due Monday 12th September in session.
Explain the thoughts, feelings and questions that you have after studying the Animals Inside Out Exhibition. Think carefully about the exhibition and how this relates to our learning expedition. Write this up on a Google Doc and share this with Mr Voltaire, Mrs Batty and Mr Jackson.
As part of the immersion for their “Being Human” expedition, year 8 (12 and 13 years) students had a still life drawing session. They were given a short time to make sketches of a human skeleton model from different viewpoints. Here are some examples of beautiful sketches created by Zara, Aimee & Oliwia.
The skills they learned in this session will be very useful during our fieldwork in Newcastle on Thursday 8th.
Students in Year 8 are asked to bring their own device every Friday so that are able to begin writing reflections on the expedition as they progress through it. This is in preparation for part of their final product which is a speech that answers our guiding question; What does it mean to be human?