My work once again took a strange chicken trajectory today. Today's school has an amazing wooded area at the back of the building, they have a story circle and benches, a pond etc. It is also now home to a rather charming chook trio and an Eglu. The birds were hatched at the school, two girls and a (quite noisy) cockerel. I found out today that (sadly) since the chickens have been resident, the outside learning space has been used less and less
The school council have decided to tackle this head-on. I'm going to be working with them to plan some exciting cross-curricular lesson ideas for the space and then the kids are going to blog about them. I've helped some of the teachers at the school to experiment with class blogs (like Y3) but everyone thought it important for the school council to be responsible for a pupil-led web presence for the school. Their whole-school blog is about sharing the successess and celebrating the diversity of a charming city primary.
This is a perfect example of how digital media can give kids the chance to be active in motivating and inspiring their teachers and peers, with a postitive effect their own and others' teaching and learning.