Hi welcome from our team the 'I don't get it..xx?!!!?
..XXTHE END JAMES BOND IT'S YA BIRTHDAY GONNA PARTY LIKE IT'S YA BIRTHDAY! '
DAY 1
On day one, once we got off the bus we found out what groups we were in!
In our group there is :
- Steph
- Beth
- Eleanor
- Rachel
- Michael, our mentor.
Firstly we did team building; we made a bridge out of newspaper and tape. We came third out of four teams because our bridge gave way on the last weight.
We had a bottle of water and a healthy snack before we headed off to our next activity.
Have you ever been scared of skeletons and skulls?
In our singing lesson you wouldn’t have been, we sang fun and exciting songs about skeletons, we even learnt how to play ‘dry bones’ on the keyboard. Then we headed off to lunch. Mmmmm yummy!
Our third activity was dance we did joint duets where we learned how important our joints are.
Then we paired up with another pair and did stand still photographs which had to be focused on a certain joint. Then we had to make up a dance on certain joints like the right foot. Next we learnt the Starkey dance. Finally we had to put it into one BIG show! That was the end of day one awwwwww.
Everyone went home excited for tomorrow.
Rachel: It was ace! it was great! It was fab!
Eleanor: It was like school but it was alot more fun!
Stephanie: I had fun especially in music!
Bethany/Maureen: Dance was fab!
Michael (mentor): I have the best group in the summer school!
DAY 2
First of all, we went to the gyms in our mentor groups to do an active warm up with the whole group. Hannah and Martha led the group and we did star jumps, runs and played scarecrow tig, it was very fun.
Our first activity was making our own pizzas out of flour, butter and water. We added our own healthy toppings of onion, sweetcorn, peppers, mushrooms and carrots. We then designed and decorated our own boxes to hold our pizzas in. Here are some pictures of us making the pizzas…
After break we went to CS7 and designed this website that you’re on right now!
After lunch we will have a Greek lesson….exciting!!
We hope tomorrow will be even better!!
Here's a poem written by BETH ...
D I S C O
A C T I V E
N E W M O V E S
C R A Z Y
E L E G A N T
...and a paragraph written about dance:
BETH:
In dancing we had a great time, we learnt how important our joints are by doing a warm up using all our joints.
We also did a dance with three parts of our body, we used our right foot, our bum and our arms! Then we copied a great dance off Miss Starkey and made up a finishing position. Miss Starkey gave us time to rehearse and go through the dance and then performed it in front of everyone!
DAY 3
Today we did time ditectives, atrist and face painting on face painting we leatnt about
diffrent types of styles of face painting. rachel was bethanys partner and rachel had a swizzelly face but bethany had a black face with a gold design.
DAY 4
Today was different from all the other days because it was split into two sessions: Grotesque Theatre with Miss McAleese and Taekwando with Mr Bellanfante. With Miss McAleese we played games and learnt about
grotesque theatre. We were in groups of 5 and had to have a certain number of feet and hands touching the floor, so we had to lift each other up. It was lots of fun. We learnt lots of different moves in Taekwando like high kicks and punches.
DAY 5
On day 5 we had a trip to Hebden Bridge Alternative Technology Museum and we made note books from the melted plastic. then we had circuit biking we went over hills and bumps on the field. Today Eleanor went on holiday so we will get a new member for our group on Monday.
Day 6
Today we got a new member for our group called Adil Hussain, he likes playing football and has two brothers and one sisters.
On Monday we made buns and a cake which was named the rocky road cake. We learnt how to make buns and a cake, it was really fun unfortunately we weren’t able to taste the buns or the cakes but we will be on Thursday when we have our party.
Maths challenge
We had do decode some words on the cipher wheel it really simple once you knew how to do it. Once we did that we went into the classroom next to us and we got an electronic remote control and did a maths quiz.
Climbing & rounders
After that we played rounders and in my team there was Michael, suttee, jess bob and myself it was great fun. then we went climbing it was really hard we had to climb this wall and touch all the numbers and as the numbers got higher it got really hard I only got up to number 7.then we got our bags and went home.
Day 7
Today was Bethany's BIRTHDAY!! Happy 11th Birthday Bethany!
At Mixenden we did:
· Mountain biking,
· Climbing walls,
· Open boating (canoeing),
· Kayaking.
It was so much fun me and Rachel were in Ruth’s group and Adil was with Miss Labott.
In mountain biking we checked our bike was working okay and then we had a ride around to check our gears. Then we moved on to some harder things like avoiding cones and cycling in a straight line.
Climbing was really fun and we all had a great time we did bouldering, (a posh word for climbing sideways rather than upwards) Then we went in three’s to start the proper climbing, someone did the climbing, someone did the belaying and someone made sure everything and everyone was safe!
In open boating, I wish the mentors were there because we would have pushed them in! We all had a great time the only thing was we had to carry the kayaks back up the small hill, (I think we would have got the mentors to do that as well!) Then most of us had showers and we all got home safely in the buses.
DAY 8
Today we are updating our Wikimedia webpage, and later we will be making something in Fashion with Miss Hall and then debating with Miss Todd. We are looking forward to our activities. Tomorrow is our last day and we will we very sad to go.
THAT WAS THE 'I DON'T GET ITS' REPORTING FOR THE WIKIMEDIA WEBPAGE. wE WILL NOW LEAVE YOU WITH SOME QUOTES FROM OUR GROUPS....
The summer school experience was the best I recon if someone didn’t enjoy it they must be mad because it was the best time ever and I don’t ever won’t to leave.
Rachel
This week was really good we did many activities, we had lots of fun and I hope I could come again.
Thank you Adil Hussain
It was really fun for everyone, including the mentors but i do think there should be more dancing and singing because i like doing those. I recommend summer school to all the people coming to high school because it was so fantastic!
Bethany.
BYEEEEE!
XXX
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