House Martins’ dice games

The class watched ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ DVD and listened to famous players talking about their attitudes towards racism, their experiences of it and examples. The group then completed some literacy work on the computers outlining suggestions for how to kick racism out of professional football, school, young people’s minds and amateur football. They came up with a variety of consequences if people are heard being racist, ranging from mild to harsh.

In the playground, the group had to work together to form lines in relation to height, birthdays, house number order. Without using their voices! They developed a range of ways to communicate instead.

Dice games helped improve the chidlren’s maths and spelling skills. The groups mainly encouraged each other, whereas others needed to work on their sportmanship values! A class discussion during and after the mental maths game revealed the wide range of strategies were used. These included: partitioning, column, grid, multiplication tables, counting in beads/fingers, counting on/up methods.

Brenda Scoble from Northamptonshire County Council’s ICT in Schools team visited Towcester Primary School to see what ‘PfS on the Road’ is all about and the kind of activities we do to help boost maths, english and ICT skills. She was a very helpful mentor and the children took to her straight away.

Lewis: “The games were fun, they are educational. I improved because I got my spellings right.”

Jordan: “It was fun, it’s not stuff that we usually do. It was cold outside.”