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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.