The Big Event

Today we started discussing our theme topic - The Big Event. We discussed how the Rugby World Cup is bringing thousands of visitors from around the world to our country, each bringing with them their own culture.

We then discussed exactly what a culture is and here is our initial thoughts:



We then tried to define what culture is and this is what Room 1 came up with:

A group of people that follow the same rules and have similar attitudes and behaviours.

Hazards and Safety

Our unit this term is about Hazards and Safety.

Following Professor Krasnic's advice, we decided to define the terms 'hazard' and 'safety' and write examples of hazards and safety into our books.

We then collected our ideas and created a class mind map.

Enjoy

Our Very Special Skype Call

Exciting times!!! Yesterday (Tuesday 12th April) we were fortunate to have a webinar via Skype with Professor Toni Krasnic.

He shared with us some wonderful tips and ideas on how to become better learners, tying in with our Key Competency Managing Self.

The information was so valuable we decided to kind of use Toni's CLM + SOS method to best gain meaning.

First we split into 5 groups, compared our individual notes and wrote our ideas down on paper.

 

We then split into 2 groups and recorded the group ideas onto 1 piece of paper. Removing any ideas that were repeated.

And finally we transferred the ideas onto the computer through the smartboard.

Here is our final mind map highlighting the Key Ideas Room 1 obtained from our Skype call with Professor Toni Krasnic. We would like to say once again a big thank you to Toni, and we hope you enjoy our final mind map.

 

Exciting stuff!!!!

When Mr Baylis logged onto our blog page this morning we received a comment about our Mind Map.

It was from a man called Toni Krasnic a professor who specialises in exactly what we discussed about. He offered some extra suggestions for our 'Managing Self' mind map and these have been included below and are in yellow.

Room 1 would like to thank Toni very much for taking the time to read our blog and offer suggestions. We warmly invite him and anyone else to freely add any further ideas/suggestions to the learning we do.