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Day 20: Region Challenge Unit
Region Challenge Unit Recently our team came together to discuss eLearning in the run up to the end of the year. With Week 15 or 16 starting this week, and with a changed school calendar to accomodate changes with breaks, holidays and assessment, we had to revamp our current plans with something different. We have noticed students dropping off in engagement and we wanted to try and bring them back in and not overwhelm them or their families. We also have a very small number of students returning to school, and wanted to think about how to grow their communities and give them things they could do together within the…
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ES Sports Day – 2015 DONE!
YIS Elementary – Team Red Dragons (1P) with their Middle School Leaders A few months back I posted about the hopes for our ES Sports day this year, and yesterday we had a wonderful day out with our students. I wanted to share with you about the day to encourage more schools to consider a student driven day. We started 10 weeks in advance to the day, taking 10 minutes at an ES teacher meeting to explain that the day was coming up and would be a little different to previous years days. We didn’t talk specifics, but rather what we were hoping the day would be about and that…
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Student Leadership and ES Sports Day
P1090788 by Paul O CC BY Spring is in the air, the Cherry Blossoms are poised to burst into bloom and so our Elementary Sports Day looms close. Last year I blogged about Sports Day ideas with Doug Gleddie and I wanted to share what we are hoping to do this year as part of a two or three year plan for evolving our ES Sports Day. We evaluated our plan and day from last year. We felt that although the students had a lot of fun, the day needed to align more closely with our philosophy of PE at YIS. Now we don’t have a written down statement but the sentiment is that…
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MS Sports day meets HS SEPEP – perfect harmony
MS Sports Day – Bench-ball by Adam Clark CC BY NC SA Every school has it’s Sports Days. At YIS we have a chronic lack of space and so the traditional Track and Field day does not exist and in its place is a Middle School Sports Day that sees students play a variety of team games to win points for their house. This year we changed things up a little to try and use the resources more effectively. The PE Team decided on the Sports, offering a variety of choices to students based on the activities we had been doing in our MS classes and also a little…