Programming the clown!

Hassan:

Today in Islamic studies, Mrs Matthews taught us how to program in the GO software programme!

It was an amazing experience learning this and there were many things I didn't know. Programming is the best!!!

Arish:

As I entered my Islamic classroom today, I guessed that we were going to be doing the normal, which is searching on a topic which we were not that aware of, however, how very wrong did I end up. A usual period turned out to be a total astonishment. An extremely kind and polite teacher Mrs Matthews came all the way from Aldar H.Q to the primary bit of the school in order to teach us a bit about algorithms. At 11:15 on the 17th January 2016 I had not the tiniest amount of a hint about what this was. In fact, I was not even enthusiastic to learn anything about algorithms at all. As a clueless student I made my way in the classroom, with completely no idea, that I will be leaving the class with enough information to teach 1000 children 2000 different things about algorithms. Algorithms, which I recently from Mrs Matthews, is a set of instruction used in programming. Along with the definition, I also learnt that that there is a software called GO SOFTWARE. Of course, there are many things to algorithms such as process, flow lines, out put, in put etc. These are all as boxes while you are using them. In GO SOFTWARE I learned that you could programme your very own set of instructions (algorithms). Isn' t that awesome! Well, in my opinion I really enjoyed this lesson and over all I wish to have it again. Thank you!!!  :)   

Peer Teaching in Maths

In maths today, some of our learners became teachers!  They've been working hard to revise and prepare for their own workshops and today some of these students taught others in the class.

The workshops offered included short division/bus stop revision, long division and an introduction to dividing fractions.  All of our student teachers did a fantastic job of gaining an understanding of their students' starting point and were able to adapt their teaching based on the feedback and insight they gained from their students.

It was a pleasure seeing them take such responsibility and leadership for their learning.  Congratulations to Zayaan, Farah, Hassan, Matthew, Vinuth and Omar.

"Today I learnt how to do bus stop division into the trillions.  Matthew was a really good teacher; he helped me which I got stuck and didn't act like a 'big head'.  He was really helpful and I enjoyed the student teacher workshop.  I'd like for it to happen every single week - it was good!" - Leo

"I really enjoyed doing the session today because I think it was really helpful.  The students were really good because they gave us hard stretch questions.  I think we should do these student workshops more often because I made good progress" - Aisyah

"Today at the beginning of the workshop, I'd forgotten how to use long division, so Vinuth told me all these tricks and I learnt that it's basically short division just writing all of your calcualtions down.  I made really good progress today!" - Rayan.

"Teaching was a pleasure today.  I taught Ryan and Charlie and it gave me practise with long division.  I gave them super, super stretch questions and challenged them.  They made great progress and will practise some more to get even better" - Vinuth