Gearies Infants Games

draft one: 3rd millenium learning. Gearies Infants.

2011-11-30T13:53:00.001-08:00

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Community learning events provided by Discover, building a model of the "Rusty Bridge", Westfield, Stratford.

2011-11-30T13:04:00.001-08:00

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Travelling back in time to solve essential mathematical codes...and also to get really muddy.

2011-11-30T13:03:00.001-08:00

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2011-11-30T12:57:00.001-08:00

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FEAST TALES. The Fairy and the solider, children aged 5 and 6 Princess and the lions, children aged 3 and 4. The maid

2011-11-30T12:52:00.001-08:00

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Monsters...

2011-11-30T12:42:00.001-08:00

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Draft Video: 3rd millenium learning. Gearies Infants.

2011-11-30T12:38:00.001-08:00

Feast goes national!

2011-07-06T14:15:00.001-07:00

Just to update everyone, our feast project is now featuring on the Hello national campaign website,

thank you everyone for making this such a great project

can't wait until the 13th !

dan

follow this link.
http://www.hello.org.uk/your-stories/your-stories/your-story.aspx?ID=52

Early Years Network: Feast celebration Wednesday 13th July 1.30 @ Roding- quick message from dan lea

2011-06-16T09:45:00.001-07:00

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Dear all,

I hope this email finds you well and enjoying the lovely weather, glorious summer!

Attached should be the flyer for our early years network celebration event, please print it off and share with colleagues in your school, remember the network has just enough funds left to cover your needed supply costs so do look to bring a colleague and share the learning.

So far we have date, venue organised, I was thinking that on the day we could have a mini project in the morning with the children, then set up the tents/story dens, story trees and main tent in the back field (weather permitting) bad weather, in the little hall? Then in the afternoon the celebration is dead simple, everyone brings a story and pegs it up on a washing line, each school makes a small display of what they have been up to and the children, artists and practitioners simple mingle, talk and share, nice. At the end of the event everyone gets to take home someone else's story. and of course we should have food, nibbles and drinks.

Hows this sounding?

Please feedback any ideas or suggestions and please do encourage people to come, the project has been a great success and you deserve to have your commitments recognised in your respective schools. On that point may I take this opportunity to thank everyone for their support and dedication to the project, hopefully this event can be a celebration, a time to enjoy what we have achieved.

best wishes

dan

ps. Eugenia I did put you down as a contact for confirming attendance, is that ok?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

2010-12-23T11:44:00.001-08:00

the paper garden

2010-12-23T11:41:00.001-08:00

-----Original Message-----
From: KAREN MCLEAN <karendmclean@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Leafamily2005@aol.com
Sent: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:41
Subject: Fw: the paper garden

--- On Sun, 24/1/10, KAREN MCLEAN <karendmclean@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

From: KAREN MCLEAN <karendmclean@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: the paper garden
To: "dan" <Leafamily2005@aol.com>
Date: Sunday, 24 January, 2010, 19:36

I had a great time last week .Thanks

Here are some photos I took.Sorry for some reason I was unable to send the folder. There is a phot of the boy writing his football report!

I have some video of children making up a story. I will send that with another message.

Cheers

karen McLean (Wanstead.Church.School)

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Tracks from the Gearies Archive of Sound. Previews 2.

2010-08-16T15:06:00.001-07:00

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Tracks from the Gearies Archive of Sound. Previews.

2010-08-16T14:51:00.001-07:00

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Children Co Constructing their own Learning: Fireball XL5

2010-08-16T14:31:00.001-07:00

In this project I shared with the children my love of the theme tune to Fireball XL5, we watched an episode, learn the song and then the children were given the rest of the day to construct their own projects. The children created some wonderful pieces of learning ranging from the construction of a rocket and accompanying five sets of space suits to stimulate creative role play, two enlarged maps of the universe, one poem inspired by the song, one percussion composition to accompany the songs lyrics, three space stations created from Lego and a collection of space themed story comics and accompanying puppets. Really great to see what the children can create by themselves when us interfering adults stop hindering their creativity.

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Children Co Constructing their own Learning: Fireball XL5

2010-08-16T14:29:00.001-07:00

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Messages in Bottles: Images captured during the project. Part 4

2010-08-16T14:18:00.001-07:00

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Messages in Bottles: Images captured during the project. Part 3

2010-08-16T14:14:00.001-07:00

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Messages in Bottles: Images captured during the project. Part 2

2010-08-16T14:13:00.001-07:00

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Messages in Bottles: Images captured during the Project.

2010-08-16T14:07:00.001-07:00

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Messages in Bottles.

2010-08-16T14:02:00.001-07:00

Project abstract:

This project aims to provide the children with a wow factor outdoor space. It looks to explore creative use of the outdoor spaces around the reception classroom. Creativity within and around these spaces places in which the children can engage in child initiated play and learning. The project looks to centre its learning on creative storytelling and child initiated writing. The projects main audience will be an identified group of reluctant writers. The project also looks to develop ways in which the Early Years network can join together and celebrate its practice by bringing children staff and school communities together.

Desired Outcomes.

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To deliver a collection of creative learning experiences.

To create an outdoor space that promotes writing.
To increase the children’s confidence and commitment to constructing their own learning, increasing their confidence in developing child initiated play.
To create an environment that engages the reluctant writers, providing them with a space that makes them want to write.
Developing a space in which physical play can compliment other areas of learning.

What is already in place to support this project:

Support from team members and other identified colleagues

Resources available

Why are these outcomes important to the collective or individual. (ecology.)

I want to explore how the children will respond to this different learning setting… How the children will use their imaginative responses… I want to see and feel a wow factor in that space…I want to see boys and girls enthused about writing, really encouraged to creative independent pieces of writing. (Karen)

This project will give the children a unique and stimulating opportunity to be truly creative and lead their own learning.

What will be the performance measures?

The creation of some stimulating outdoor spaces.

The creation of the, “Message in a bottle” Project.

The creation of writing journals.

An event that includes the school and network community.

Pieces of independent writing created by the identified reluctant writers.

A range of creative mark making activities.

The creation of an outdoor learning space in which physical play complements writing and mark making.

A collection a schools send stories to each other in bottles, these become collaborative stories that organically grow as the children continue to send stories to each other and other children across the borough.

What will be the success criteria?

Reluctant writers engage in child initiated writing activities.

An identified group of learners use the outside spaces in a more purposeful way.

Reluctant writers choose to write.

We get that wow factor

The project impacts upon the progression of an identified group of reluctant writers.

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Paradise Playground 2010.

2010-08-16T13:50:00.001-07:00

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Our First Music Festival @ Gearies: Paradise playground 2010.

2010-08-16T13:44:00.001-07:00

This is our first attempt at an all day music festival that celebrates the children musicality. The design of the event was kept deliberately simple, so that the children could have the ownership of the day and how it could evolve. We created an outdoor space for children to perform in, created an outdoor space for children to sit down, relax and enjoy the performances in, and then simply sat back and enjoyed their creative responses.

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GEARIES DSI

2010-07-13T06:40:00.001-07:00

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A research project exploring how the DS-I could possibly be used as a learning tool to narrow the gap between our disadvantaged learners and their peers. (With a six weeks review of findings.)

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GAS- The Gearies Archive of Sound.

2010-03-09T13:38:00.001-08:00

The Project Abstract:

“What opens the mind to engage upon a shared musical journey where we explore our children’s cultures, histories and identities through the music they listen to, will this shared journey raise the profile of music within our school and support practitioners in developing innovative musical project with their children?”

In this project we hope to explore the musical cultures and interests of the children and adults within our school community. Using these audio identities and cultures as a way of engaging, a starting point, to a innovative and creative musical project. This project will be recorded digitally along the way, creating our own music/media record, stored pieces of music, image, text that can be shared through our whole community. Within this project we would also like to develop performances and celebrations that involve the whole community. I am guarding in committing to much more description at this point as we would also like the project to have an organic nature, growing from the children’s explorations of culture, identity, music and voice.

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Global Gearies

2010-02-07T03:59:00.003-08:00

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Playful Learning Children as Game Builders By Anthony Evans

2010-02-07T03:59:00.001-08:00

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http://2simpleblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/playful-learning-children-as-game-builders/

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If the path to reading is not a pleasurable one...

2010-01-25T12:07:00.001-08:00

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“If the path to reading is not a pleasurable one, we run the risk of losing the plot.” Learning to read “Can not be placed in a narrow performativity culture.”

(Phillip Pullman 2003)

Has the Phonic War created two polarised camps and ousted creative alternatives, leaving us with a narrow “performative” teaching culture?

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LATWF 2010

2010-01-24T12:02:00.001-08:00

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LATWF2010- Gearies Infants, Technology and The Learner Journey.

2010-01-22T12:22:00.001-08:00

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Creators not consumers, best message of 2010 so far, 2diy get in there!

2010-01-22T12:14:00.001-08:00

This puzzle game was created by a four year old using 2simple 2diy, in 30 minutes. The whole message of being a creator, not consumer is awesome. Watching and joining in with the children at Gearies creating their own games has been completely addictive, seeing how they create, edit, share, co construct, rehearse, revise and then enjoy their creations is quite inspiring. I to have now got hooked and made a few of my own little games using images from my childhood media cultures. The concept of the children being the creators, genuinely in control of these digital games, world even, is fantastic.

I remember as a child cutting and building my own toys from boxes, toilet rolls, bits of wood. The message delivered with this software is one that needs to be shared across all subject areas, learning contexts and even just home school life, don't just consume and buy into all the garbage and droll programmes, toys and marketing machines that bombard us, take a different path, create.

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2010-01-06T06:57:00.001-08:00

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Marvel Catcher collection. Levls 1 to 3. Rishi

2010-01-06T05:45:00.001-08:00

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Space Adventure. Harris.

2010-01-06T04:18:00.005-08:00

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Monkey Swing. Adib

2010-01-06T04:18:00.003-08:00

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Monkey Swing. Adib

2010-01-06T04:18:00.001-08:00

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Alvin catching games. Akhil

2010-01-06T04:17:00.009-08:00

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Alvin catching games. Akhil

2010-01-06T04:17:00.007-08:00

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Fling Bee 1 and 2. Anisha

2010-01-06T04:17:00.005-08:00

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Fling Bee 1 and 2. Anisha

2010-01-06T04:17:00.003-08:00

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Red Butterfly. Ayeisha

2010-01-06T04:17:00.001-08:00

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Red Butterfly. Ayeisha

2010-01-06T04:16:00.013-08:00

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Obstacles. Evan

2010-01-06T04:16:00.011-08:00

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Volcano. Kjaun

2010-01-06T04:16:00.009-08:00

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The Firework Show. Lamees

2010-01-06T04:16:00.007-08:00

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The Pink Flying Dog. Nabeela.

2010-01-06T04:16:00.005-08:00

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Marvel Catcher collection. Levls 1 to 3. Rishi

2010-01-06T04:16:00.003-08:00

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Wizard School. Rishi

2010-01-06T04:16:00.001-08:00

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Santa's Little Helper. Rishi

2010-01-06T04:15:00.013-08:00

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Car Games 1 and 2. Saif

2010-01-06T04:15:00.011-08:00

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Prince. Sana

2010-01-06T04:15:00.009-08:00

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Spongebob. Simi

2010-01-06T04:15:00.007-08:00

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The Presents. Stevan.

2010-01-06T04:15:00.005-08:00

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Snowmen Catching. Suriah

2010-01-06T04:15:00.003-08:00

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Snowmen Catching. Suriah

2010-01-06T04:15:00.001-08:00

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Banana Catch 1 to 3. Tabaniya

2010-01-06T04:14:00.005-08:00

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Wildthings

2010-01-06T04:14:00.003-08:00

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Gingerbread Man. Tabaniya

2010-01-06T04:14:00.001-08:00

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Robot Catch. Tabaniya

2010-01-06T04:12:00.001-08:00

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Playful Learning in progress

2010-01-05T07:57:00.000-08:00

Playful Learning.

Here are some of the early devlpments the children have created so far in this learner journey. They are pieces of learning in progress, but still very innovative and impressive in the form they are already in. Enjoy and feel free to leave supportive feedback.

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