A collection of Voki News reports completed by a group of Second Years from Newbridge College. The pupils were asked to write a brief News Report based on the events from the first four chapters of Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The entire class did a great job and posted below you will find just a selection of their work.
Monday, 15 December 2014
Friday, 12 December 2014
Ms Carey's Class - Group Essay
My lovely 2E English class have just finished reading &
studying John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice & Men”. We had discussed on many
occasions the theme of loneliness in the novel & how all characters are
affected. I divided the class up into groups where they had to plan a paragraph
for homework on a particular character or aspect of the novel and how
loneliness is depicted.
Each group had to perfect their paragraph, selecting the best
points each group member had come up with. Finally they put forward their best combined
effort. These paragraphs were presented to the class and together they are a
thorough account of this important theme. Hopefully this piece of work will be
a helpful tool for revision before the Christmas exams and beyond.
Miss Carey
Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Lord of the Flies: Fakebook
Today I started a Fakebook account, based on The Lord of the Flies, from the fantastic Classtools.Net with my Second Year English class. We are hoping to learn more about the novel and particularly the characters by posting from their different perspectives throughout the novel.We're also hoping to use the Fakebook account as a way of storing creative writing, homework and oral language tasks throughout the novel. Feel free to pop back every now and then and see how the class are getting along.
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Friday, 24 October 2014
College Press: Halloween Edition
Welcome back everyone!
Countdown to Summer Holidays begins now...only 239 days to go! (sorry exam years…)
Firstly we’d like to say farewell to our former editor Eveanna Sutton! We wish her all the best and will miss the optimism she brings to College Press. But thankfully we know our new editor Laura Hannon will match Eveanna’s positivity and UMPF!
JOHN CARPO AND ALAN KELLY WHERE ARE YOUR ARTICLES?!?!
We wish you all the best with the year ahead,
Till next time;
Xoxo...
Amy, Cara and Laura
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Sunday, 7 September 2014
Iteration in Education
'Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.'
D.Defoe - The Political History of the Devil
It's typically a shock to the system for parents, teachers and pupils but almost as certain as death and taxes, the new school year always rolls around. As the new school year begins people typically strive to 'get back in the routine'. It's understandable and of course part of human nature to seek familiarity. Indeed familiarity can be great. It's great to go back to school and pick up where you left off with great working relationships with both pupils and colleagues.
The danger with the safety blanket of familiarity is that it can start to smother. Using the same plan, making the same comments, teaching the same way, is not advisable. I believe as teachers we are always having to strike a balance between what we have previously used to get results with our pupils and finding new ways to engage our pupils and improve their learning experience. Just like the computer that continually needs new software, teachers need to try new things every year. We need to iterate. When I started teaching I was Eoghan Evesson Version 1.0. If I count every year that I made a concerted effort to improve how I teach as a new version, I think I'm now Eoghan Evesson Version 5.0.
Over the summer I was busy stock piling my software update for this year. Between exam corrections and building sand castles with the kids in Ballycotton, I was retweeting the best educational advice and links that I could find on Twitter. In the the ThingLink picture below I have added just six of the links and tips that I found over the summer that I hope to use in this academic year. The picture itself in the background is from another site I hope to use this year, EDpuzzle. Trying new things in the classroom can be a risk but just like death and taxes, the school year 2015/16 will inevitably arrive and I don't want to be the same version of a teacher when it does.
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D.Defoe - The Political History of the Devil
It's typically a shock to the system for parents, teachers and pupils but almost as certain as death and taxes, the new school year always rolls around. As the new school year begins people typically strive to 'get back in the routine'. It's understandable and of course part of human nature to seek familiarity. Indeed familiarity can be great. It's great to go back to school and pick up where you left off with great working relationships with both pupils and colleagues.
The danger with the safety blanket of familiarity is that it can start to smother. Using the same plan, making the same comments, teaching the same way, is not advisable. I believe as teachers we are always having to strike a balance between what we have previously used to get results with our pupils and finding new ways to engage our pupils and improve their learning experience. Just like the computer that continually needs new software, teachers need to try new things every year. We need to iterate. When I started teaching I was Eoghan Evesson Version 1.0. If I count every year that I made a concerted effort to improve how I teach as a new version, I think I'm now Eoghan Evesson Version 5.0.
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