MAY:

Year 7

Year 7 students start working in the "Identity and Belonging" project with the "Connecting Classrooms" programme by the British Council and Fundación Evolución.

 Exploring who we are

Monday May 6th………. DAY 1
- In ten seconds, students think of one to three words that best answer the question: Who are you?

- Students watch the video (Song: Who I am) and choose one character..

1) Who is he/she?
2) Why did you choose them?
3) Did you like the song? Would you like to sing it? http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/n/nick_jonas_...

-How would you be if you had been born somewhere else? Try...

...  http://www.thelotteryoflife.co.uk

1) imagine how different circumstances would influence on your identity.
2) imagine how your “connecting classrooms” partners are.

Year 6

* 6th form students prepare a song for their camp.

They watch a special version of the song and work with the map. Have a look!

Students find the cities on the map and work with distances in kilometres and miles. Here's Sol’s work:

Song around the world (Stand by me)

Watch the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Us-TVg40ExM) and find the cities on the map (https://maps.google.com/)

a)      How many miles did they travel…

1 – from Santa Mónica, California (USA) to New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)?

1, 906 miles (one thousand nine hundred and six miles)

2 – from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Moscow, Russia?

1,532 miles (one thousand five hundred and thirty-two)

b)      How many kilometres did they travel?
1- 3.049 kilometres (three thousand and forty-nine)
2 – 2.465 km (two thousand four hundred and sixty-five)

c)      Which other places did they visit?

Pisa (Italy), Santa Monica (California- USA), New Orleans (Luisana - USA), Toulouse (France), Rio de Janeiro(Brasil), Caracas (Venezuela), Barcelona (España), Umìazì (South Africa), Mamelodì (South Africa).

YEAR 5

5th formers create picture dictionaries with clothes. Here's Melina’s work. Congrats, Melina! 

MARCH in Year 6

* Year 6 students create “vokis” to introduce themselves. Here's Fiona's... Well done, Fiona!
http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=7721804&height=400&width=300