UN Summit of Empathy Wow, that escalated quickly! Just a few days ago the G6 students were placed in one of six fictitious countries – each country was given very different living conditions with vastly different health care, education, work conditions, freedoms and governments etc. Less than 2 weeks after this starting point we have just held a 2 day ‘mock’ United Nations Summit of Empathy!
We have been exploring solutions to the problems of inequality and ways in which migration could be mutually beneficial to the countries involved. Also, how richer countries can offer support and resources to allow poorer countries to flourish, thus stemming the need for such mass migration. Such an interesting area to explore and so relevant to some of the issues faced around the world right now. Day 1 of the conference focused on understanding the individual perspective of each country and their own challenges and opportunities. Day 2 was focused upon putting forward resolutions and voting to see if a majority could approve each proposal. There was some very interesting data from the voting and lots of really deep thinking, persuasive arguments and compromise. Please talk to your child about their experience attending this conference.
Setting up for the conference.
Our 2 day agenda
Opening UN statement
Opening statements at the conference
A delegate from Haziardland
A delegate representing Utopiana
Delegates from Innovatia
The resolutions that were passed or rejected by delegates
Migration Stories – We have been very lucky to have been treated to some fascinating Migration stories this week. A huge thank you to Ms Dorothy, Mr Mike, Mr Matthew, Ms Meeta and Ms Sarah for sharing and for engaging with our G6 students.
Literacy – We have been continuing our stand alone Literacy inquiry into figurative language. This week we have had some fun exploring onomatopoeia and personification. We have also been reading a selection of writers, selecting great figurative sentences and then borrowing key aspects from them (their writing style) to help inspire our own writing.
Mathematics – We have done our baseline number assessment which has provided lots of data and identified many cohort strengths as well as lots of areas that require additional focus. We have also continued to explore mental and written strategies for whole and decimal numbers when using the four main operations.
Next Week:
Where We Are in Place and Time (UOI) – We will be continuing to listen to guest speakers who are sharing their migration stories. We will also start to look at migration throughout history and what were some of the big causes that triggered different types of migrations. We will be exploring patterns and trends. Can we predict future prediction patterns? What evidence is there to support our ideas?
Literacy – Using all our figurative writing skills and commas to create a beautiful ‘I am’ paragraph that will accompany our self-portraits.
Maths – Continuing to explore mental and written strategies for all four operations for whole and decimal numbers. The week after we will start a new inquiry into fractions in the world around us.
Have a great weekend,
Matt