Ms. Garratt’s Blog
Here you’ll find a range of resources to help you get the most from your PSHE lessons. I’ve included links to recommended websites as well as a range of study materials to help you become increasingly independent and successful learners. If you need help come and see me or contact me through this Blog.How to Put a CoPE Folder Together
How to Put a CoPE Folder Together
This file is a template for your CoPE success. It contains comprehensive information about how to organise and assemble your folder. Work systematically, follow the guidelines closely and make sure that your folder meets all the examiners’ requirements.
Year 9 Hinduism Assessment Criteria
Year 9 Hinduism Assessment Criteria as PowerPoint
This file contains all the assessment criteria you need to create a successful response to The Interested Travellers’ Guide to Hinduism and Hindu Life. Ask your teacher’s advice about the Level you should aim to achieve. As a minimum you should be looking at the criteria for the Silver Level.
Looking Good at the Year 11 Prom
I thought that you might like to see a few of the photos from Saturday. Copies of the full set are with Mr Unwin.
Year 8 Sikhism Module – Summer Term 2010
Ms Garratt’s Sikhism SILK Booklet 2009 Colour Version
The Martyrdoms of the 5th and the 9th Gurus – Colour Version
Year 8 Sikhism Module Student Briefing Sheet for Final Assignment
These files contain copies of the following resources:
- The S.I.L.K. Guide to Sikhism
- Information about The Martyrdoms of the 5th and the 9th Gurus
- The Students’ Briefing Sheet for the Final Assignment
Study them carefully and use them to help you create great quality responses.
A Frog in Urgent Need of a Caption
If you were in one of my classes at the end of the week, you’ll already know about this photograph and why I’m in urgent need of a caption for it. If you have any ideas, please send them through as a reply to this post. The idea is that the caption should ‘communicate the image to visitors to the Love Where You Live exhibition’. Remember there’s a 20 word limit and I need replies by this Sunday.
World Book Day with 7G – 4th March 2010
Several students with younger brothers and sisters at primary schools reported that their siblings were going into school on World Book Day dressed as their favourite character from fiction. I thought it might be interesting to ask 7G who their favourite character from fiction was and why they admired them.
From the top of the register then, favourites were as follows: Donkey (from Shrek) Harry Potter; Little Red Riding Hood; Dobby & Tigger; Nancy Drew; Eeyore; The Fat Controller & Tin Tin; Piglet; Hermoine Granger; E.T.; Georgia Nicholson; Gretel; Lola Rose; Harry Potter; Percy Jackson; Septimus Heap; Severus Snape; Dobby & The Shadow (from Inkheart); Dumbo; Lily (from Bloodchild); Meg (from Inkheart); Harry Potter; Jane Eyre & Matilda; Bob the Builder and finally Steve.
What I found really interesting were the reasons students gave for their choices. Without exception they chose people who were powerful and had the ability to bring about changes, both in their own lives and in the lives of others. Courage, determination, self-reliance and a ‘can do’ attitude characterised many of the choices made. If they go on to walk in the footsteps of their heroines and heroes they’ll make real differences for good in their 21st Century world.
Over the weekend I was looking over the ASC’s ST ERIC Skills and was struck by how many of these vital Skills the fictional characters chosen possessed. They’d be able to evidence large numbers of the 6 Skills, wouldn’t they?
If you have a favourite character from fiction, send your choice with a sentence explaining why you have chosen them through as a comment to this Post.
Meanwhile I’ll keep thinking about who I’d choose. It won’t be easy. I’ve read thousands of books over the years and would find it incredibly hard to choose just one – as some of 7G found, they couldn’t just pick one!
Additional Brain Teasers – The Answers!
I should have posted the answers to Alfie’s puzzles over half term. Apologies for not having done so. Here they are:
1. Age
2. A stamp
3. Legs
4. An envelope
5. All of them
6. A sponge
7. Silence
8. C and Y
9. An umbrella
The Convention on the Rights of the Child
Know Your Rights – A Summary of The Convention on the Rights of the Child
This file is a copy of the printed resource that you’ll be using in your PSHE lessons this term. As there’s a lot to think about, I thought you might like to have a copy that you could look through in your own time.
The Nuts and Bolts of Puberty
The Nuts and Bolts of Puberty (Adapted by AGa from the F.P.A’s 4You Leaflet)
As promised, this is the file that contains the PowerPoint you saw. I based it on the 4You leaflet that many of you will have looked at in your lessons on Puberty. Read through this information and remember to check out the books about Puberty and Adolescence that we have in the Library. You should find the answers to any queries you may have but, if you’re not sure about something, ask one of the PSHE Department staff.
Additional Brain Teasers
As promised this file contains an additional 10 puzzles to add to those that some of you worked on this week. I’ve included the answers too. I’d suggest that you spend about 10 minutes at the most on each puzzle.
Remember that it’s really important to think outside the box! Consider other perspectives or points of view and be aware that you may be misled by the wording, your preconceptions or both
You might like to see if you can create some original lateral thinking puzzles of your own. Work with others if you’d like to. File your puzzles through as comments to this post and see me separately to give me the answers so that I can post them later on.
