Dream school of the future

On Thursday and Friday this week Year 5 girls participated in a series of Thinking Skills based activities, culminating in a session where they shared the knowledge of what they had learnt with girls in Year 3 and 4.

The girls were firstly introduced to the concept of a “Dream school of the future” during a workshop on Thursday morning. The idea of the session was to help develop the girls' logical and creative thinking and to introduce and reinforce some of the teaching and learning strategies that make up part of our wider Thinking Skills Programme. 

The morning began with a fun warm-up activity which really got everyone thinking and literally in a twist!

Whilst working through the thinking skills strategies the girls were asked to come up with some ideas about their dream school of the future. The ideas were sent to auction and each group were given 50 points to bid against each other, to win their favourite ones. There were some very creative suggestions including: a transporter used to move around the school and a personal robot assistant for each child. 

The group also had to choose a Headteacher from an unusual list of candidates including Simon Cowell and Hermione Granger! 

On Friday the Year 5 girls became the “teachers” as they taught the same workshop to the Year 3 and 4 classes. 

Deputy Head of Prep and Workshop organiser, Miss Eagles, said “It was brilliant to see girls from different year groups working so collaboratively together. The Year 5 girls did a great job in helping the younger girls to understand the thinking skills strategies and everyone involved thoroughly enjoyed the activities.”