Rhyddings Foundation Stage: Year 7
Rhyddings The Foundation Stage is also known as the Zone. This is a snapshot of the kinds of activities that we do – each activity focuses on different Personal Learning and Thinking Skills (PLTSs).
First, we start off with the House Sorting Ceremony‌
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Students are placed into one of four House groups – red, green, blue or yellow.
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
Rhyddings Next, we run the House Captain elections. Students write persuasive speeches, and if they wish, put themselves forward for House Captain. These are our 2011-12 House Captains.
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Rhyddings Then, we get on with the fun learning tasks in the Zone. For Halloween, there’s the ‘Everybody Writes’ day.
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
Rhyddings For Remembrance Day, students learnt about the experience of soldiers during war, and the symbolism of the poppy.
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
Rhyddings As an Enterprise School, we do lots of Enterprise challenges. For Fair Trade Week, the topic was Rocky Road!
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
Rhyddings In January, we celebrate Australia Day with a Curriculum Olympics (it keeps Miss Bedwell happy when she gets homesick!).
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Students are measuring their results for the Aussie version of ‘Wellie Wanging’ – the ‘Flip Flop Throw’.
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
Rhyddings We like to take part in fundraising activities. This year we took part in the Bag2School initiative and recycled bags of clothes.
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Rhyddings Carrying on from that, we look at recycling our own paper and making notebooks from plastic bags‌
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
Rhyddings And then we took it further and made our own clothing!
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
Rhyddings We had plenty of tasks based on Easter, including making our own ‘Eggheads’.
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
Rhyddings We spent some times looking at the concept of symmetry and how it applies to a person’s face‌
Foundation Stage: Year 7
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
Rhyddings We love team challenges in the Zone, and the Water Challenge was no exception!
Foundation Stage: Year 7
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
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Foundation Stage: Year 7
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Foundation Stage: Year 7