Presentation Day - Week 3
The day was kicked off by rhythm and mime class taught by Noel. The students lined up and danced a traditional Céilidh, Scottish country dancing.
Impressive!
The challenge for John's Practical science class this week was, to make an amphibious car! The concept was presented to the students, and then broken down into simpler tasks. Each pair of students were required to design and make a part of this vehicle, some made the gear box, others made the wheels. John explained how to use the tools safely and supervised them at all times.
However, the creation was all left in the hands of the students. They were encouraged to get stuck! John believes that the most important lessons in life are learned through trial and error, if students are spoon fed how do they learn?
Albert Einstein:
Although the amphibious vehicle was not completed the lessons the students learned along the way are far more valuable!
Initially the students became irritated, bored and wanted the teacher to tell them exactly what to do when they got stuck. If the students were spoon fed the chance to learn PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS is lost. By the end of the week many of the students were no longer frustrated by challenges but inspired! They broke down the problem into simpler steps or tried a different approach.
The day was kicked off by rhythm and mime class taught by Noel. The students lined up and danced a traditional Céilidh, Scottish country dancing.
Feel the rhythm feel the mime get on up it's dancing time!
Next came the mime act, the students were in pairs and performed a story using mime that they had developed over the last week.
The highlight was a rhythmic dance they had created themselves, the applause at the end showed how much everyone had enjoyed it. At the start of each week many of the students are self concious and inhibited about dancing and miming, let alone performing in front of all of their friends.
They proved to themselves and the other students what can be achieved when they get fully involved in creativity!
Art
The students combined 3D work with charcoal drawing this week. They designed a cityscape from cardboard and then set about drawing in from different angles.
Web design
Dawn lead the guided the students to create a web page about a subject they were interesting. They were all varied, ranging from a page about the Royal wedding (Wills and Kate) to a detailed website about a city a RPG computer game! The students clearly enjoyed the week and were given the chance to use their own creativity and learn a useful skill at the same time.
Drama
Shakespeare is undoubtedly the most famous playwright to have lived and his words are still being used by English speaker’s everyday without us even realising it! The drama students went to a performance of (which play) on Saturday at the Globe theatre in London. The next day they performed their own interpretation of extracts from (which play). They all put in a great performance outside in the sunshine, some even acted off by heart! This is an impressive achievement for students who do not speak English as a first language!
English Language
Marcel took students for Creative language encouraging them throughout the week to create their own fantasy stories. The stories all involved the eternal battle between good and evil, in all the stories good eventually triumphed!
Practical Science
The challenge for John's Practical science class this week was, to make an amphibious car! The concept was presented to the students, and then broken down into simpler tasks. Each pair of students were required to design and make a part of this vehicle, some made the gear box, others made the wheels. John explained how to use the tools safely and supervised them at all times.
However, the creation was all left in the hands of the students. They were encouraged to get stuck! John believes that the most important lessons in life are learned through trial and error, if students are spoon fed how do they learn?
Albert Einstein:
Although the amphibious vehicle was not completed the lessons the students learned along the way are far more valuable!
Debating
The students have been discussing morality this week. Is morality absolute? Is it ever justifiable to kill? These questions and many more were argued throughout the week, during the presentation they encouraged the other students to think about and debate these questions. However, as Michael the teacher said, it is not the answer that is most important but the questions we ask along the way.Film
The challenge this week was to create a horror film, more precisely a comedy horror film like Shaun of the Dead (Dawn of the Dead spoof)
Fashion
Fashion is a favourite of many of our students, and this week they created some marvellous outfits. The development stages were explained step by step, from drawing the first designs to how they used the textiles to create the final clothing. The girls had a catwalk at the end where they showed off all their hard work this week.
Photography
There was a slideshow of the best photographs from the last week taken by Chantal’s photography group. Here are some of the finest examples!
Music
The students of Matt’s Music group performed a variety of pieces, they used guitar, piano and “A Capella” to cover a few famous songs. The other students in the audience gave huge applause and cheers giving a great finale to a great day! Though out the course the students have all improved their English but equally as important is the creativity and talent that they discovered.
Well done to Everyone!
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