We started with a Monday morning assembly where we learnt about all the new challenges we were going to face, and how we needed to have a growth mindset to solve them!
Breaktime Challenges
Year 6 will be spending breaktimes at different challenge stations around the playground this week. They will teach us a new skill, which we can improve by practicing!
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| Learning Cats Cradle |
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| Cups Song Training |
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| Learning it all step by step |
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| Discovering new clapping games together |
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| Target practice - can we improve over the week? |
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| Learning the finer points of keepie-uppie |
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| Getting some tips on penalty shoot-out |
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| Determined to attempt Mrs McMillan's challenges! |
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| First stage of Cats Cradle complete! |
Crochet in Class 5
Gillian, a local crochet expert, came in and taught us how to crochet our own friendship bracelets. We found it hard at first, but now we have started a lot of us are determined to keep going!
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| Being shown how to start |
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| First attempts |
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| Showing others how it should be done helps reinforce our own learning |
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| A face of frustration! |
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| We learnt we needed to be patient when learning something new |
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| Some of us had a second attempt to see if we could improve |
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| Once we had practiced a little, it became much easier |
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| We worked out ways of improving on our first attempts |
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| We also became a lot more creative once we were more confident! |
Paper Challenge in Class 4 & 5
Class 4 and 5 had a go at trying to create these paper structures. It was very frustrating at first, but we got there in the end!
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| Nervous smiles at the start |
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| First attempt at the problem |
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| Concentration face... |
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| It doesn't always go right first time! |
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| We felt a mix of emotions... |
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| Success!! |
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| Using creativity to solve the problem |
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| We learn better when we are happy! |
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| Looking at the problem from a different angle |
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| Trying to overcome frustration! |
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| Learning from our mistakes and making another attempt |
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| We felt extra proud when we solved it ourselves! |
I had fun doing the paper challenge and I liked doing Cat's Cradle. I think I can do the first step without help now.
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I loved growth mindset week soooooo much because it was full of challenges. The impossible fold challenge was really tricky but I persevered and got there in the end. Matilda learnt how to do cat's cradle and taught me how to do it. We now love doing it and can't stop! JB
ReplyDeleteGirls, you have really impressed me throughout growth mindset week and I know you will continue to show our learning powers in all your learning! I have to agree, I never knew you could play cats cradle by yourself, MC you persevered amazingly to learn this and then teach others (including me!) VERY impressive!!!
ReplyDeleteWell done to everyone last week, let's all remember the messages of growth mindset each and every week now. I had lots of fun learning new skills with you all!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed growth mindset week , i find it hard to challenge myself by once I have done it I get a really good feeling. I also enjoyed the break time challenges . I think it was hard but I liked challenging myself. Callum Easton
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