HWB: Children In Need Day

Today Primary 6 participated in a range of activities linked to Children in Need.

Bear Pong
They started the day off with a fun challenge of ‘Bear Pong’ where the pupils had to keep track of their points and add up their totals (each cup had a different amount of points that the children would earn if they got the ping pong ball into it).

Same but Different (Inclusion Focus)
The pupils then watched some clips on the BBC website about children who have specific needs. They watched a clip about a child with asthma and another about a child with dyslexia. The children in the clips discussed what made them different from their friends and what challenges they face in their daily lives. We then discussed what makes each of us the same as the people around us (comparing to our friends or family) and what makes us different or unique from the people around us.

STEM Challenge
The pupils were tasked with creating a parachute that would allow Pudsey to gently fall to the ground. The pupils worked in pairs to agree upon which resources they would use to create their parachute. Available resources included, scissors, sellotape, napkins, tissue paper, sandwich bags and lengths of wool. As a class, we then tried out each of the parachutes and learned that when the surface area of the parachute was bigger (but not too heavy) air resistance acted against the gravity that was pulling the parachute down towards the ground and allowed Pudsey to gently fall however the parachutes that had smaller surface areas and were heavier resulted in less air resistance acting against them therefore gravity took over and Pudsey fell to the ground with a THUMP!