Year 7 Big Ideas so far

Year 7 have got stuck into Big Ideas, where they are investigating, 'Me, Myself and I...What makes my Community? To investigate the concept of community, they are working in house groups, and rotating around four different workshops each week.

In the first week, the groups got to know their House Patrons better, culminating in a quiz on the four house patrons in which everyone battled to be the fastest finger.

We then focused on family, with the students creating a family tree and investigating where their ancestors came from. In this week the students played games from around the world, and created an Ancestry advert.

The following week focused on footprints, such as where the students have come from, their carbon footprint and their cyber footprint. This week, there was a focus on online communities, with students creating an Avatar for their online social networks. They also had the opportunity to play some 'traditional games,' such as Hopscotch, Knucklebones, Marbles and Elastics. They were then given the opportunity to compare and contrast these games with the games on their iPad.

This work will culminate in the students creating a brochure to show the communities that they belong to, before we move on to take a closer look at the Catholic Church.