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Extra Curricular Activities
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While I was on my final teaching placement at college I helped out at the weekly after school rounders club, taking the team to a competition where they came second on a technicality. I spent a lot of the time working with the bowler and backstop in order to improve the accuracy and stop the opposing teams scoring too many rounders.
In my first full time teaching role I started up two different clubs. The first was called "I'm not sure about last week's Maths". Children ho had a specific difficulty with the work from the previous week would come along, on a voluntary basis, and we would try to sort out their problems. The club was open to both Year 5 classes, not just my own, and I usually had between two and eight children attending.
The second club was called "The Challenge Club" and was aimed at the Year 6 children in the school. We used puzzles from the NRICH website and spent a month working on solutions. The first set of submitted solutions were so good that they were published in an updated version of the teachers notes which can be seen here. The picture above shows one of the first puzzles we tackled which is called 2 on 5. It can be found on the NRICH website and was originally made by Bernard Bagnall, one of my lecturers at college. The version you see here was made with card and Velcro to make a practical demonstration of the task much easier. It also provided a wet break time activity for my class who often asked of they could get the multilink out to give it a go. Both the Challenge Club and the I'm Not Sure About Last Week's Maths sessions were run at lunchtimes.
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