Lance Armstrong visits Tobermory
Well, not quite… Today my S3 class took on the role of teachers and went to teach primary 7 all about the Tour de France. Starting in class they had written their own learning intentions and started with WALT and WILF and introduced a new friend “WALA” (We Are Learning About). After an introduction and short video showing the route of the Tour de France they split primary 7 into groups and then joined the groups themselves. They had told the class that a special visitor would shortly arrive to answer their questions about the Tour de France and worked with them to prepare some questions - once done we went outside and called for “Lance” who duly cycled into the playground to answer their questions.
(another of my S3s who is into cycling in a big way and indeed sees himself as a potential future winner of the Tour). Once all the questions had been answered they returned to the classroom to test what the class had learned using a Who Wants to be a Millionaire type quiz.
All in all a successful lesson and something which we’ll want to look into again next term.
