Y7 International day

 

Eastern European Month

February 2011 was once again International Focus Month at Grove and this year the focus was on Eastern Europe. Mrs Bedford launched the month with assemblies to all Houses and Grove College. The assembly covered a brief history of Eastern Europe in recent times, interesting facts about some countries, problems affecting people in these countries and a brief overview of what was happening in school over the month. As we have now completed the cycle of 5 international months over the last 5 years and covered 5 continents, the assembly concluded with a look at what the World looks like today and a thought-provoking video produced by Miniature Earth, which portrays what the world would look like if it were a village of 100 people. Departments were all asked to contribute to the month by including some reference to Eastern Europe in some lessons. Some of these are listed below

  • A Russian language taster session was delivered to Year 7s and to Primary school pupils by the MFL department.

  • The RE department looked at Moldova, one of the poorest countries in Easter Europe

  • Maths looked at the statistics of the area

  • In Drama students were given the opportunity to make plays about Russian Fairy Tales

  • In PSHEE, students looked at diversity in the community and prejudice

  • Year 8 students in Geography researched different countries and prepared presentations on them

  • Grove Catering had a week of themed food

On 18th February, all Year 7 students spent the day in mixed groups doing a carousel of activities focused on Eastern Europe, These included, Drama (Russian Fairy Tales), Art (Screen Printing based on Ukrainian Egg Patterns), Circus skills, Cossack dancing and Russian Language learning.  Some Year 7 students will be visiting our partner primary schools in March with their Russian fairy tale plays.

             

           

        

The students also got hands on in a circus skills workshop, two professional 'clowns' were on hand to show and advise students how to perform basic circus tricks with props such as juggling balls, stilts, balancing peacock feathers and were wowed with the magic tricks which were performed.