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REFUGEES, DISPLACEMENT, and EMPATHY in YEAR 4 Unit: Internal and external factors contribute to people’s decisions to relocate. Teacher: Muhammad Umar, PSPE

The objectives of this migration simulation were: 

1. to build empathy by inviting students to reenact the process of “fleeing their homes” carrying belongings and small burdens.

2. to measure a distance of 100m, using a 10m measuring tape, in order to help students visualize a 1km walk, and thereby appreciate the difficulty of covering a distance of many kilometers. This exercise also reinforces the concept of place value, which is our first chapter in mathematics.

Students migrated, built a camp, talked about the dangers of sleeping in the open, about having to keep watch, deal with fatigue and injury, and the difficulties of finding water and food, etc. They wrote reflection papers upon return from the exercise to describe what they had experienced.

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BETTER THAN HOMEWORK - A Book about Good Government (Y1) Unit: Societies rely on people with many different abilities to function properly. Teacher: Sara Bashir

Year 1 students were talking about roles in government and what they do. One of our students chose to create this book at home and brought it to class the next day to share. 

We treasure projects like these that students undertake independently at home because they show how each child’s thinking on a particular subject/ topic continues even after they leave school. Instead of assigning a heavy load of scripted homework, projects like these allow the child to show what caught his interest, to be a model to his peers, and to add direction to his own education.

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MISSING PAGES WRITING PROMPT  Writer’s Workshop Teacher: Friha 

Our Librarian realised early this week that one of our favourite library books had some torn pages. We wanted to bring this to the attention of students but also use it as a teachable moment. So in writer’s workshop, after reading the story aloud to the children, the teacher invited them to write and illustrate their own version of the missing pages.

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Pleasant and Unpleasant Fragrances in Early Years 1 Theme: Exploring our 5 Senses Teacher: Andaleeb Hashim