Year 7 Island Day

06 Sep Year 7 Island Day

Year 7 –  ‘The Island’ day

On Tuesday 6^th September, our new year 7s had their first day at Jo Richardson based on a fictional Island. The students took part in a number of sessions across a range of departments, from building a communications tower in maths to transporting a secret code across the Island in Dance. The day is focused around three core principles which make up our whole school numeracy programme ‘Go Figure’; problem solving, reasoning and decision making. The students were fantastic and their contributions and discussions were really impressive.

Megan McCabe, 7F, has kindly shared her experience of the day:

“We had to build a ‘communication tower’ to track satellite signals, the higher the better. It had to be constructed out of spaghetti strands (hard but easy to snap) which acted as beams and also marshmallows (easy to puncture, good for support) which acted as a corner support. The challenge was to see how high we could build it and also how cheap. I have learned that working in a group is a great learning experience as well as a fun bonding experience – overall it was a real success. The difficulties were making our tower stable, which was a problem for most groups but with strategical thinking we managed to overcome it. Although there were a few minor challenges in this lesson, our group did rather well as the lesson went well thanks to the help of the teachers”

Well done year 7 – a really impressive first day!

Mrs Morris

Head of Maths

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