There was a lovely atmosphere on the first floor this morning when the Year 1 parents visited their children for their Exit Point on Let's Celebrate
Exit Points provide purposeful closure to a learning unit as they give a platform for our students to celebrate and feed forward what they have learnt. During the Exit Point, students have the opportunity to share their knowledge, demonstrate their skills and articulate their understanding to our school community.
During the Exit Point for Let's Celebrate, the students demonstrated that they have learned that celebrations are a hugely important part of human life. As artists, musicians, designers, historians and dancers, they explored ways in which all peoples and cultures, from every part of the world, take part in and hold celebrations to mark special events and special times in people's lives.
Explaining the Theme
In History, they learned about:
How people in our families celebrated in the recent past
How particular past events are still celebrated
In Design, Technology and Innovation, they learned about:
How to plan for a celebration
How to design and make a product for a celebration
In Art, they learned about:
How decoration is used in celebrations
How the work of artists is used in celebrations
How to make artefacts and images that could be used in celebrations
In Music, they learned about:
How songs and music are used in celebrations in our own and other countries
How to compose our own music for a celebration
In Physical Education, they learned about:
How to create a celebration dance
How to improve the performance of our dance
In International, they learned about:
What is the same and what is different between the celebrations in the home countries of the different children in our class
How to work and celebrate with each other
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