Our machines are locked in such a way that pupils cannot access the system tray. This was done to stop inquisitive pupils accessing things they shouldn't. Therefore we have a slight problem when it comes to using Fridge Magnets - a problem that I had discovered when my S6 pupils tried to use it back in October, but one I had forgotten about when I demonstrated it to my S1 pupils two weeks ago! What to do? I really wanted the pupils to take time to sit down and plan out their adventures so they were more focussed rather than having numerous random dragons/spiders/ghouls etc all over the place. After some thought I decided to revert to large pieces of white paper(fridges), pens, coloured card(magnets) and glue. As I was handing out the materials on Monday, having not mentioned yet what we were going to do, one very switched on pupil said "Miss are we doing fridge magnets today!". This is even more impressive since we have had half term in between the aborted fridge magnets lesson and this week's improvised one.
The pupils put a lot of thought into what they wanted to write and spent longer at their desks planning their game than I expected. Only one pupil rushed through his planning in order to get onto the computer. So far we only have some outlines the odd quest and some characters at the moment but we will revisit their fridges over the next couple of weeks at the start of each lesson and build on their ideas.
And a possible advantage to improvised fridge magnets - a couple of the girls have also drawn pictures on their fridges to show how their characters might look so I might have some nice posters for my room too!
Sheila
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