Anna visited Thomas Becket’s current Double Club this week to see how the year 8 students are getting on. She led Kung-fu punctuation where each punctuation mark requires an action and sound effect. After discussing various punctuation marks and putting them into example sentences, everyone had a go at this, stringing together a few different ones in different orders, always starting sequences with ‘captial letter’ bowing. Then they read a paragraph about the Steelbacks cricket team and had to insert the moves and sounds in the right places. The final task involved suggesting possible punctuation that could be used in a paragraph about Thierry Henry that had none.
The ‘Hot Air Balloon’ dilemma is a persuasive writing activity where each student must write and read aloud a piece about a famous sports person to be voted into staying aboard a sinking hot air balloon that needs to throw some people out. With 8 sports persons and only 4 places available, competition was tough. There were some great speeches detailing why a swimmer, dancer, Frank Lampard, Wayne Rooney etc, should stay afloat. Everyone voted for the most persuasive speech (not just their mates!) and explained why they had chosen them.
A quick brain break speaking game of ‘Who’s in the bag?’ finished the session. Individuals described various celebrities without saying their names or being too obvious, while the others guessed.
Patrick Franks led the practical sports session in the indoor gym – badminton. The aim of the session was to improve co-ordination and the ‘overhead shot’.
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