The Winners Are…

As our Board Game Challenge was a competition, we got different awards for what we had done well during the challenge.

The Fire Wolves won the “Best Board Game Idea” as they came up with a very original and exciting board game concept that the P345s absolutely loved!

The Fire Dragons won the award for “Most Creative Team” as they has such creative ideas for their “sinking” board game and created a wonderful advert.

The Musical Dogs won their award for “Best Team” as they were the team that worked the best together and showed great cooperative learning skills and teamwork.

Team Noel won the award for “Best Product”. They worked very hard to create a finished product of their board game that would be good enough to sell in shops tomorrow, complete with a 3D Santa’s Grotto.

Ducks R Us won the award for “Best Advert”. They worked very hard to create a cheesy and cheerful advert that showed exactly what their board game was about and why people should buy it!

And the Winning Team for the whole challenge was DLAKE Ltd. They worked very well together  to create an exciting and easy to play board game. They worked very hard with their presentations, budgets and market research.

The Apprentice Board Game Challenge

P567 decided to do something a little different at the end of term. We decided that we would have a day spent like an “Apprentice” Challenge.

We were split into Cooperative Learning groups to form our teams. We had to decide who was our Project Manager and then split our teams into sub teams: the Advertising Team and the Design Team.

We had to do market research to find out what board games people would like to buy or what are their favourite types of board games. We asked members of staff, the P12 pupils and the P345 pupils.

We then had to decide our board game name and what it would be about.

The Design Teams then started to create our board games by using cardboard, printing question cards, making dice and using paint to make it colourful and bright.

The Advertising Team had to create a poster and then write an TV commercial to advertise their product. They then used props, the spare classroom, iMovie on an iPad and some of their group members, to create the advert. We all think iMovie is a great app for filming as our adverts look amazing! We definitely want to use iMovie again!

Click the links below to see our adverts:

Help Santa

Save the Presents

Reindeer Hunt

Christmas Eve Mayhem

Logo Business Quiz

Christmas Cracker

We then presented our adverts and board games to the P345 class. They also got a chance to play some of our games. They all had really nice things to say about our board games!

Christmas Hats

On Thursday, we made mini Christmas Hats out of wool. They are very small and cute. They are so small that we even made some for minions and some of our pets!

You have to be very patient and concentrate. It is easy but a bit time consuming.

Below you can see two little minions modelling our hats!

The Stars came out for Christmas!

On the 11th of December, we performed our Christmas show: “The Stars come out for Christmas”

Some of the songs were:

  • Boogie Woogie Santa
  • Why Won’t It Snow
  • Christmas Dinner is a Winner
  • Send Me on My Way (Christmas Cards)
  • Silent Night
  • The Stars Come Out for Christmas
  • Christmas Trees
  • Away in a Manger
  • We wish you a Merry Christmas

There were a lot of people in the audience, it was queued out the door!

It went very smoothly! It lasted 50 minutes. Nobody forgot what to do and we all sung very well!

The message of the show was that all the different parts of Christmas (like Trees, Santa, Cards, Snow, Dinner) are all important but we must not forget the real reason we celebrate Christmas.

Parents were generous enough to help us tidy up the hall afterwards. Thanks for the help!

The audience absolutely loved Tom’s part and his “rubbish”  jokes.

We all had different costumes, such as Timon’s tuxedo, Christmas pudding hats, Kyle’s Santa outfit, Liam’s Snowman suit and Tom’s leather jacket.

It’s beginning to look like Christmas!

We have been very busy with our Christmas Show rehearsals so haven’t had any time to make Christmas decorations but we have managed to start making our classroom look Christmassy!

We all helped put up our tree and decorate it! Doesn’t it look lovely?

We have our class advent calendar which we take turns in opening every day as well as hearing the Christmas jokes on Newsround.

Our P7s have also created a rota to hand out Christmas cards that any pupils post in the postbox. They enjoy delivering the cards like Postmen!

Christmas Jokes

We have been watching the Newsround Christmas Joke Advent Calendar everyday! Some of the jokes are funny and some are pretty terrible! We thought we could do better!

In our show, there is a character who tells rubbish jokes that everyone has heard before and gets fed up of. So we decided to record a video of some of these jokes.

Click on the links below to hear a couple of the  jokes:

Joke 1

Joke 2