Friendship FaceTime session.

This morning we have had a FaceTime session between the two schools, this concentrated on friendship and the qualities of friends. The children were interested in the similarities and were surprised they had the same qualities and did the same things with their friends in both countries.

Friendship project

We have been working at a project looking at the qualities of friendship, looking at our feelings of belonging or not belonging to particular groups. Through this project we also looked about how friendship can help with peace and how the qualities of friendship could make our world more harmonious.

FaceTime session

While Mr Cook was visiting Mohammad Shamel School we held a FaceTime session between the two schools. It was great to see the two schools chatting and asking questions to each other.

Dabke Dancing

The children at Frances Olive Anderson Primary School have been learning about the traditional Lebanese Dabke dance.

Children at Frances Olive Anderson practising their Maypole Dancing

Children from Mohammad Shamel School, Lebanon, Maypole Dancing

The Dancing Month

DANCING MONTH

Through this project the children gained a further introduction and embedding of each other’s cultural heritage.

The students researched about traditional dances  and music around the world and the meaning behind them, exploring their cultural heritage. After this each school focused on their partner school’s traditional dance and learnt the history behind it.

More video conference pictures, What we do at the weekend project.

What we do at the Weekend project.

This morning we have taken part in a facetime session with Mohammad Shamel School in Lebanon. We looked at how the children in both schools spent their weekends and we were surprised by similar they were. 

We also had visitors from Guadeloupe in to see how we use ICT in our partnership. They went away very impressed with all the hard work in both schools.

The finished instruction booklet.

The Right To Play- The Games We Play

All the schools in the project have suggested playground games and these have been put together to form an instruction booklet of activities for the children to play.

snake game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq5vqnp02MA&feature=em-upload_owner#action=share

Dice Game

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cJMKxHPGffo&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DcJMKxHPGffo

In this game the numbers 1 to 6 are chalked on the playground. After a count of 3 the children all run to one of 

numbers, the dice is then rolled any children at the number in lands on are out. Repeat until only 1 child left they 

are the winner.

Splat game

Next part of the project is to recommend games played in each country, our first game is 

SPLAT

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HC1_Uv5ymM4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHC1_Uv5ymM4

All but one of the children  stood in a circle with the remaing person in the middle. The person in the middle would fire an imaginary splat gun at someone and shout SPLAT! The recipient of the 'splat!' had to immediately duck and the two people either side would have to turn and 'splat' at each other. The loser of the duel was out and sat down, the person splatted from the middle would re-stand and the game would continue with one less participant. The game continues round by round with someone eliminated each time (unless the 'splat' duel was considered a draw), with the duels being between the two nearest standing people either side of the victim.

When only two people remain they stand back to back and a key word is agreed, for example 'fox!' A series of words are called out and the duelists take one step each time,

'box!' (step), 'rocks!' (step) until the keyword is called and the duelists spin round and fire a splat! The fastest is the winner.

The Right to Play

We then discussed why they thought every child should be allowed to play activities appropriate to their age. These were the reasons they came up with.

The Rights Of The Child.

First we discussed what 'Rights' children should have, and whether this should be for children all over the world. 

The Right to Play

Through this activity the children will be looking at the UN DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD with particular emphasis on the section that states that a "child shall have full opportunity for play and recreation." 

Imagine by Mohammad Shamel and Frances Olive

Our latest project, Imagine- Peace Project:youtu.be/jRblYjCrDj4

FaceTime peace project more pictures

FaceTime session: Nobel peace day follow up

Students from Mohammad Shamel and Lea school had a FaceTime session where they talked about peace. The session kicked off with students telling about things they did on Nobel day for peace, the information they gathered about Alfred Nobel and people who won Nobel prizes.  The kids shared their work that they did on Nobel day for peace . Then the students went on by sharing their thoughts of what would they do for world peace if they were to become presidents. Finally the session ended with students from both schools singing (imagine by John Lennon ) . What was unique in this session is that it was videotaped from the Lebanese side for a film that the British Council is making. They interviewed the students and the working staff in M.S. School In order to capture the impact and the effect of connecting classroom projects in the schools.