Metacognition, learning about learning.

How we can help our brain and memory work harder to help us learn. This will help us with all our future learning and make us even better learners! 

Brainwaves: Metacognition

In Health and Wellbeing, we’ll be learning about:

• Metacognition
• Identifying my own strengths and weaknesses 
• The power of ‘yet’ 
• Goal setting
• How to use a learning journal 
• Using graphic organisers to support learning 
• Using questions to plan, monitor and reflect on learning
• Mindfulness for learning and self-regulation
• Advice people would give in hindsight.

In International, we’ll be learning about:

• Reflexivity and becoming aware of biases that influence our thinking
• The 5 whys strategy for examining thinking.

and then...

we take on the responsibilities as tourists, and the impact that our choice of holiday and travel destination can have on the human and physical environment. We will need to be geographers to compare and contrast countries as tourist destinations. What are the positive and negative impacts of tourism on different places in the world?

It’s... The Holiday Show

In Geography, we’ll be learning about:

• Reasons people go on holiday to different places
• The different lines around a globe and on maps
• Weather and climate in different parts of the world
• Creating virtual tours of far away places
• Making and interpreting maps 
• The benefits and issues caused by tourism
• How natural disasters impact tourism.

In History, we’ll be learning about:

• Creating a history tour based on a theme or person.

In Design, Technology and Innovation, we’ll be learning about:

• A strategy to evaluate materials used to market holidays
• How to create our own marketing materials to sell a holiday
• Addressing a specific customer through marketing.

In ICT and Computing, we’ll be learning about:

• Using QR codes to connect to digital information
• Mapping journeys digitally
• Evaluating reliability of translation applications.

In International, we’ll be learning about:

• Making positive choices when travelling
• How to be a global citizen when visiting different places. 

followed by...

Stepping back in time, looking at Chronology and its importance when studying history; why things have happened and how the present is influenced by the past. Exploring the perspectives of different people during historically significant moments and how changes to our world can affect people in many different ways.

As historians; we will practise and develop the skills that historians use to understand events from the past. What skills do you think a historian needs? Will these skills change in the future when today becomes history? 

It’s... Being a Historian

In History, we’ll be learning about:

• Representing chronology in timelines and family trees
• Terminology used to describe periods of time
• Researching significant events on specific days
• Evaluating sources of information on significant people from the past
• How inventions developed over time and changed lives.

In Geography, we’ll be learning about:

• How borders, names and country divisions have changed over time
• How tectonic activity has shaped our world and what historians can learn from these landforms.

In Art, we’ll be learning about:

• How different civilisations used art to record and tell stories
• How art was used to make records of events
• Bias in historical art.

In International, we’ll be learning about:

• Calendars in different cultures and civilisations and how they measure and describe time
• Learning from the past to build towards a better future
• Why news sources report the same story in different ways.

In Health and Wellbeing, we’ll be learning about:

• Fake news, what it is and how to spot it
• Using metacognitive strategies to become a better historian.

and finally...

We all know about the problems we have on this earth getting rid of all our waste. Waste finds its way to nature, harming animals, plants and eventually us, humans. More and more artists are using waste and discarded items these days to create powerful art. We can’t leave saving our planet to superheroes, we all need to get involved. Are you ready to upcycle your waste?

Moving onto, the movement of people around the world. We will gain a deeper understanding of why people have moved and the impact these movements have made on society and culture. We will need to be historians, geographers and global citizens. We will reflect on the choice to move and those that have no choice but to move. Have you or any part of your culture been influenced by the movement of people in the past or the present? 

It’s... Create from Waste and Moving People

In Geography, we’ll be learning about:

• Why people we know have moved around the world
• Recent mass migration events
• Refugees and people seeking asylum
• Natural disasters that resulted in displacement and migration. 

In History, we’ll be learning about:

• Forced migrations or displacement of people
• The influence of past civilisations on places they visited
• The spread of ideas, technology, language, food, goods and culture through migration.

In International, we’ll be learning about:

• Refugees and stereotyping
• What we need and want for good quality of life
• The connection between the Sustainable Development Goals and the movement of people
• Push and pull factors that lead to people working in other countries
• Political reasons why individuals may need to leave their home countries 
• Laws on immigration and the movement of people between countries.

In Art, we’ll be learning about:

• How art can challenge and influence society
• Using newspapers to create art.