Background

Raising awareness of healthy living and promoting the recent Winter Olympics. We also wanted to highlight the importance of working as a team and sportsmanship as well as sharing and taking turns.

How ICT supported learning and teaching

The Smartboard was linked up to the Wii system and which allowed 4 children to play the Wii on the big screen. Children brought in a variety of games and had the choice of what game they wished to play. Included was Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympics, which introduced the children to new events and words such as the luge, skiing, skating and curling. This could be discussed back in class and developed into the rules of the game etc.

We set out clear instructions when playing on safety and looking after the equipment and made the children responsible for tidying away controllers and games at the end of the day.

Impact / conclusion

Most of the children had experienced the Wii before and had lots of knowledge on how to navigate to games and how to safely play the game. It was interesting, however, to notice that the children were not used to clearing after themselves and making sure each game was placed back in the appropriate place. We moved this discussion into the classroom on looking after possessions and belongings. The children loved to show off their skills though and were very competent at using the system.