"New Bay" and "The Waters Edge"

This term our inquiry topic is 'Our Communities'. We have been learning about what makes up a community and how they run.

The class split into two groups and each group worked together to create their own ‘dream’ community. It included at least one thing they love and everything a community needs to run efficiently.

Below you will see the maps of these communities they created. These were called ‘New Bay’ and ‘The Waters Edge.’ Each student created a character with a job, to live in their community. Through drama, we acted out different scenarios and stayed in role for multiple lessons. The students thoroughly enjoyed this!

We also learnt about freeze frames – enjoy seeing these through pretend newspaper articles below.

To finish this unit of work the students are using Minecraft as another platform to consolidate their learning of the important features a community requires to run efficiently. It is great to see the enthusiasm within this unit, with each student contributing their ideas and working well within their groups.