That's resilience

Upper Primary pupils have been working hard with their History task, where they have been researching about trading in the past. They have been reading different non-fiction books and taking notes. They now know more about trading in Ancient Sumer, Ancient Egypt and also about how both the Mayans and the Vikings traded. They then connected their new knowledge to a literacy task, where they wrote an advert for something that was used for trading in the past.

In Society, pupils have also looked more at global brands and their logos, they have also designed their own logo for a new company. They knew many logos from different categories.

Since a part of our IPC unit “Going global” is to know about the role we play as consumers we have also looked at economically wealthy countries and economically developing countries. For our International task we have talked about trade, and how it is not always fair when you look at it from a global perspective. We have learnt more about Fair Trade by looking at a video where cocoa beans were harvested by farmers in the Dominican Republic and then exported to other parts of the world. The farmers explained how their lives had changed when they started selling their products through a fair trade organisation. Pupils have also read about other fair trade products and how fair trade helps people in developing countries to get access to clean water, school materials etc.

Upper Primary pupils are also finishing off different Art tasks. They have been working with water colours, trying to shade using water. It is trickier than it sounds. They are also busy preparing all different kinds of things for their special surprise at next week's Halloween party! A lot of co-operation in our classroom!!

In Numeracy pupils have been working more with fractions, but also with halving and doubling 3-digit numbers, multiplying and dividing 3-digit numbers and measuring time. Some things are easier to learn than others. Fractions are still challenging for many pupils in Upper Primary.  Luckily Upper Primary pupils have been able to connect this to the IPC Personal Goal of the month; “Resilience”.

To be resilient is to bounce back up, to try again, to not give up and to try a bit more if something is challenging. We have also talked about the word “yet”.

“I don’t know this… yet!”

“I can’t to this… yet!”

Upper Primary pupils talked about the word “yet” and explained the word like this:

“Not now, but soon, in the future, I will be able to do this or I will know this!”

That is resilience!