Headlines, Excuses and Anti-Racism…

On the penultimate day of Summer School our EAL students worked hard on their creative writing skills.  In the morning the students worked on creating a story to go with sports headlines taken from a variety of newspapers.   This required the students to use their imagination and written English skills.  An extra task for the students was to include six National Curriculum recommended ‘high frequency’ words and their derivatives into their news story.  

After the morning break, the EAL students exercised their creativity once again by coming up with ‘excuse’ stories.  They watched a DVD containing some famous sporting mistakes and then were challenged to write their own excuses stories. This allowed the students to demonstrate their humour whilst writing from the viewpoint of another person. 

Before lunch, the students were split into groups of three and were set the task of building a paper tower.  The wining group was the team that built the tallest free- standing tower out of ten sheets of paper, one roll of sellotape and one pair on scissors in fifteen minutes.  The teams had to communicate their design ideas with each other and then had to present their finished tower to the rest of the group explaining their ideas.  Hamida, Bianca and Beer built the tallest tower at a height of 77cm!

After lunch the students discussed the issue of racism in sport (and wider society) and worked in groups to create posters containing anti-racism slogans and statements such a ‘Kick Racism Off The Pitch!” and  ”Kick It Out, Stay Out!” The students discussed the consequences of racist behaviour at sports matches and how racism could be tackled.

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Posted by Jaimie