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.Archive for March, 2010
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!
