The PfS introductory day season started yesterday with the visit of students from Culworth Primary. The students were exemplary and showed great touches of creativity throughout the day.
I particularly enjoyed hearing their powerful word choices to describe Silverstone’s fast cars exotic monsters that flow like a fierce river round the track. The ideas have been captured in a wiki library on the Enable Learning Platform for the students to review, reflect upon and develop in the future. In fact, all the output from the day was added to the platform ready to be shared and/or edited back at school and home. Judging by the 30+ discussion group messages on the school’s platform page, it is proving a hit.
Another memorable moment was when one very bright-spark asked whether the older single-seater racing cars were wider than the new ones in the workshop. As usual, I did not know the answer and looked on as group came up with three different ways of measuring and checking their ideas using a variety of non-standard units. The older cars were definitely wider. Judge for yourself! (Car number 12 is the newer version)
