Week 25
Ok, it’s been a while since I posted a blog, the reasons being that I had a 2 week school placement and the following two weeks I didn’t have too much to write about as it was mainly signing off of modules.
The first lesson back after Christmas is Art. We started the first session by talking about drawing; our teacher described drawing as the engine that drives art and design, also that drawing is fundamental in art and consists of the creation of marks, lines and tone.
We then went on to talk about pencil types. We learnt how the pencils go across a spectrum, i.e 4H -> 2H -> HB -> 2B -> 4B -> 6B getting softer respectively.
After we tried some different types of materials and paints available, we also tried some observational drawing and the teacher reminded us to always try out different things to draw so it doesn’t get boring.
The next lesson was design and technology. We were told at the start that important things to be aware of are the national curriculum, paragraph 5 and the Q.C.A, the Q.C.A has ideas, F.P.T’s and D.M.As.
We than went on to talk about how health and safety is incredibly important when teaching a D.T lesson, for example there are things that the children may be allergic to (if doing food). Also that every child matters, so it is important everyone gets involved and is watched over for safety.
After this talk we went on to do practical work, this involved making a box out of wood and paper.
Our next lesson was part of our humanities lesson, R.E. This is the concepts of the divine module. We started the lecture by looking at the dimensions of religion, these include; ritual, mythological, doctrinal, ethical, social and experimental. We also talked about some words that may come up in religion and where they originate, anima is Greek and means spirit and Mana means a hidden or secret spiritual force that operates in individuals.
After this we started looking at our research projects and how we will go about it.
We then had a second R.E lesson, this isn’t the specialism but instead the same teaching as what everyone will be taking. We started by talking about what is special to us, this (as we are told) is a good way to lead a class.
We then went on to try to answer the question ‘what is religion?’ This sparked a some what large debate, concluding that is answers to questions and a fundamental part of us.
We then spent the rest of the lesson looking at symbols from different religions and what they mean.