Water Safety Friday

Good afternoon,

Today's learning, once we finished having morning tea...


...was all about water safety. Specifically river safety. The class was split in three - one group on one side pushing the water away from them with kick boards, one group was on the other side, doing the same as those opposite, while the third group went between...











While we were waiting for the bus on the grass outside OLV, the children applied the game skills they have been learning during our fitness rotation, namely Octopus. Which they arranged and played completely off their own bat!


And that was our day, in terms of learning stuff! (Well, apart from how to get on with your peers...)

We left for the pool at 09:20 with my Tablet PC pen safely housed in, well, its housing (!), and when we got back it was...Du du du...missing! Arghh!


So most of the rest of the day was spent looking for the jolly thing!


Off we trot to assembly, and low and behold, when we get back, there it was sitting on the keyboard!

Later I got the whole story - some senior girls had come round while we were at swimming looking for Room 2's House Points, which they know is on an Active Inspire file that's run from my tablet onto the board. Well, I guess they must have tried to find it, and since the Tablet PC was in Tablet mode they had to use the pen to do it. For reasons unknown, they then took the pen when they left Room 2 for Room 1, realised they still had it and left it in Room 1 where, later in the day, one of the Room 1 children found it and started playing with it on the floor (gasp!). Mary saw it, took it, tried to use it as a pen (since that's what it looks like). No ink was forthcoming, so she threw it into the rubbish bin! Fast forward to Assembly, I mentioned to all and sundry that I was missing my tablet pen and if anyone found it please return it. And so they did! Ha!

In the meantime I had ordered another one (@ $68.00), so I had to rush off at 3:00 to cancel the order.

Still, it all came right in the end. Thankfully. This Tablet PC is absolutely brilliant, worth it's weight in gold, but only if you've got the pen!

Mr Grant