The next phase of our little project is to get the boys more engaged in the sessions through creating activities for themselves and also by developing their literacy skills by taking over some of the responsibility for completing this blog.
This week we met up at Herbert Thompson Primary and discussed the blog. the students looked through it and were asked to write down what they liked about the project and why.
“We learnt how to listen”
“I like playing games in the pool”
“We get better at our handwriting in class and we are a team ”
They were then asked to look at planning an activity for the rest of the boys to do. The added challenge was to include some way of developing numeracy and literacy I the game. Two groups were really amazing at this and we played their activities. First of all we did “stuck in the mud’ The literacy and numeracy element was that when you were tagged you had to either spell a word that was called out or answer a maths question.
The second activity was a basketball game where they had to keep track of their score. Different points were allocated to different spots on the floor and they could make it more difficult to gain multiples of that number.
Next week we will be back in the pool and we will be trying to replicate the games in the water.