rock climbing at Creation with Year 10

At the start of the session the pupils were introduced to the instructor who explained what the safety rules were for climbing the rock walls. They demonstrated how to put the harness on correctly, where and how the rope was going to be clipped so they could start their journey of exploring the walls as well as explaining how to get down such as when they got to a height they felt comfortable to stop at, they would need to just let go of the rocks and their bodies would slide down. The pupils enjoyed climbing a variety of rock walls at different heights. The pupils and staff members took it in turns have a go at seeing how high they could reach. When they had achieved one height the pupils showed an interest in moving onto the next one as they pushed themselves to climb higher at more difficult stages. 

walk around Worcester Woods to a park with Primary 2

 

The pupils enjoyed walking around Worcester Woods as they discussed what they could see. One of the pupils pointed and said "look there is a mushroom". The pupils showed an interest in exploring the woods through different movements of running along the paths or in and out of the woodland areas. We discussed how the woods felt like "a jungle with all of this long grass". The pupils walked along logs showing the staff how to balance their bodies with one pupil expressing "look I can walk along without falling off, I just stick my arms out". While we continued to walk further the pupils pointed out a couple of tree huts stood up beside the trees. The pupils showed an interest in dismantling the huts as they identified the sizes of the logs used. One pupil said "this long is taller than me". 

We began to walk towards the outside of the woods where we found a large surface of grass which led to a park. The pupils enjoyed seeing how fast they could travel on the zip wire, achieving the goal of reaching to the top of the climbing frame along with their peers and staff members and exploring the various shaped apparatus. 

walking up Waseley Hills with Year 7B

 

When we arrived at Waseley Hills the pupils noticed two horses as one pupil talked about their past experiences of horseback riding "I have ride a horse before". Next the pupils began to talk about what sights they could see as they walked up the hills. The pupils showed an interest in exploring through the forest areas by walking down steps and adventuring back up to the top along grass banks.

As we got to the top we talked about how you could see the Malvern Hills from the peak. After we had explored the sights the pupils  showed an interest in rolling down the banks as they took part in seeing who could roll down the quickest.

When we got to the bottom the pupils showed an interest in exploring a variety of equipment's displayed at the park. They worked together as a class to encourage their peers to climb a rock wall, see who could travel the highest on the swings and enjoyed moving the see saw up and down in symmetrical timing with each other. 

 

Year 7B creating tricks on ramps at Creation

 

All of the pupils showed an interest in having a go on a scooter with one pupil asking "can we go down the big and small ramps like we did before". When we got to Creation all of the pupils kitted themselves with a safety helmet and said "this is to protect my head". The pupils gathered in a group as the teacher asked what some of the outdoor ed rules are. The pupils identified "no swearing", "keep two metres away from other people" and "keep your helmets on at all times". The pupils enjoyed demonstrating their tricks of doing little hops on the scooter and putting one foot on the back wheel to stop themselves quickly as the pupil talked about their past experience of "yeh I do this all of the time on my bike and scooter at home" as well as seeing how fast they could travel along, or one side to another, a variety of different sized ramps. After some of the pupils had a go at sliding down one of the big ramps using their hands to push off and their bottoms to slide with one pupil saying "It is like I am going quick down a slide". 

continuing to build a robot with Year 7A

The pupils showed an interest in continuing to build the robot they had started to make in their last DT lesson of Outdoor Ed. The pupils enjoyed using the variety of tools of a saw, planer, sand paper and scrapper. The pupils described what each of the tools are used for with one pupil saying "do you think the sand paper had made the edges and sides smooth" and another explained the use of the saw is "to cut this big piece of wood into two little pieces for the robot's feet". A couple of the pupils enjoyed using the planer to smooth out the bumps that were in the planks of wood and took it in turns as the pupils discussed between each other "do you want to have a go and I will go after?". As the pupils were moving the planer round in a circular motion which was advised from peer on peer teaching from one of the pupils who had used the tool in previous lessons,  they talked about the temperature of how the wood felt after they had used the planer with one pupil saying "wow that is really hot, come and feel it".

The pupils together discussed what resources they  would like to use for the robot's head and body in the next DT lesson as they found plastic materials and game controllers with one pupil suggesting "why don't we drill this game controller to the robot's hands so it looks like it is gaming". 

DT project with Year 8

The pupils showed an interest in making a variety of materialized objects such as using wood to construct a hammer, spear, axe. One of the pupil's, with staff support, used different materials of shredded cardboard, cardboard boxes, plastic tubes, fabric lids to make their own robot with the body features of a head, arms and legs and "I will cut a square out for the robot's face". The pupil also used the resources for "this can be his hat" and "we could use this thread for his jumper hoodie". The pupils worked together in groups as they provided each other with advice on how to smooth or demolish the outer shape of their object for example; one pupil said "I would get a wooden block and put the sandpaper over so then you will be able to move it around the wood quicker".

Primary 3's junk modelling of robot's

The pupils showed an interest in making a robot out of different materials of cardboard boxes, toilet tubes, plastic tubes and plastic bottles. The pupils also enjoyed starting to decorate their robot's using electrical circuit wires as one pupil said "this is going to be the voice box" and another said "I want this wire to connect with that wire that could go into the head". 

The pupils worked together as they discussed step by step about what parts of their robot they were going to make next and where on their robot they would like the head, arms, legs and electrical circuit power units, for example; "in the middle" and "one arm at the top and the other down a little bit more" . The pupils shared each of the various tools such as; scissors, hot glue gun and drill to stick and drill the different materials together to create the shape of their robot. 

junk modelling robot's with Primary 2

• The pupils enjoyed drawing and making their own robot's using various materials and resources of paper, pen's, cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, and different tools such as scissors, Stanley knives and hot glue gun. 
• The pupils showed an interest in searching for what resources they would need to make the robot's body, head, arms and legs. The pupils shared all of the materials and equipment between each other and listened well to all safety instructions and guidance.
• One of the pupils said they wanted "10 fingers for my robot". They collected 4 and after discussion of how many more they would need to make 10 from 4, the pupil picked up 6 more straws. 
• The pupils then took it in turns to glue their resources of the head, arms and legs together in either the middle, side, top or bottom areas. 

making robots with Junk modelling materials with Primary 1

The pupils showed an interest in using a variety of materials such as cardboard, different sized cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, egg containers etc, and tools like Stanley knives, scissors and hot glue gun to junk model their own robot. One of the pupil's said "I am going to make a dinosaur robot with four legs and little arms". Another pupil said "I am going to make the biggest robot in the world". The pupils worked individually on their robots and worked in a group by sharing all of the different tools and helping one another to find what resources they would need to create the body features of head, body, arms and legs.

 

junk modelling with Year 7A and 9

The pupils listened to all instructions given as the teacher explained what the safety rules are when handling tools and resources of paper, scissors, Stanley knife, drill and a hot glue gun. 

The pupils showed an interest in using the variety of equipment to make their own robot. 

The pupils helped one another by giving advice of how to hold the tools in the safe direction of pointing the Stanley knife blade down and at an angle and how and why they need to position their bodies in a particular stance. The pupils enjoyed using the different tools to cut, stick and decorate various resources of card, tubes, plastic bottles and cardboard boxes to create the body, head, legs, arms and facial features to their robot's.  The pupils also enjoyed exploring with real life resources of a phone, headset and Xbox controller as one pupil said "the headphones can help my robot to listen to music" and another said "can i put the Xbox controller on so mine can be a gaming robot".

Year 10 Zombie Parkour

Year 10 created a game during their lesson called 'Zombie Parkour'.

Student's discussed and made their own rules for the game, created tactics to win, and developed upon their fundamental movement skills by playing a fun filled game where they had to parkour away from the Zombie who was tasked with tagging everyone else.