Well, if you've been sweating over the weekend on how the group assessors would feedback, then sweat no longer.
(In fact, you've probably been sweating longer for another weekend - due to technical problems this entry failed to post when written last week... sorry.)
Yes, wipe yourself down, indeed. The wait is over, and the general consensus, a phrase which came up for every group, was this:
"The group worked well."
And it's true - but was this because they knew they had peer assessors? Or just coincidence?
Our writing task this week is to create a long-lost extract of Captain Scott's diaries (or those of his wife). 8CH had to imagine themselves as the doomed explorer - to get into his head using the research we've done on his life, the analysis of the diary extracts, our subsequent knowledge of the diary format, and....
Answers to some questions we actually put to Captain Scott himself!
(Well - it was really Mr. Anderson with a scarf, hat, coat and posh voice. And then Lewis W had a go - thanks Lewis. Hot-seating, as it's called, is a great way to explore characters, be they fictional or historical.)
Anyway, drafts were started in the back of books to be written up in neat for Thursday. Each piece will be assessed and the pupil given a National Curriculum Assessment Level.
