#primary school
ppl in year 6 on social media are more motivated for their SATS than I am for my for my a levels rn
I didn’t want to believe that it could happen. I’ll tell you how did it affect my life right now. I live in Poland, at this moment (03/15 morning) there are 111 infected people and 3 of them died, the first confirmed case was about 11 days ago.
Since that time for a week(!) no one reacted. Until last Wednesday everything was normal, leaving out people excessively panicking and trying to buy all the food in the supermarkets… Coming back to the story, starting on Wednesday almost all kindergartens, schools and universities were closing. And since that time I’m stuck at home.
On Thursday driving schools were suspended so I didn’t have to worry about my driving lessons.
On Friday the government decided about closing some shopping malls, restaurants, pubs, casinos etc. The groceries are still open so there is no need to panic, the food will be available also the restaurants offer ordering takeouts. Post-office, banks, laundry rooms etc. are still working.
From today the borders of our country will be closed for foreigners for 10 days. Maybe it is not the kindest thing but it somehow forces staying at place, it is really-really important not to travel now.
Some of the things I mentioned should be introduced earlier. But I hope the statistics won’t get very worse shortly.
There is really no need to panic. We should stick to the recommendations, home isolation is a really good idea if you don’t have to go anywhere - please stay at home. Here is a list of things you can do staying at home:
- rewatch your favorite shows or films
- read your favorite book once again
- take care of your plants
- play with your pets
- watch old photos
- re-organise your profiles
- make a film or a photo shoot
- try to sew something
- visit online museum tour (for example this one)
- learn something new
- talk with your family
- do some yoga
- create a gift for somebody
- make a collage from old papers
- declutter a bit
- take a long bath
- indoor picnic
- play a game
- do something you enjoy but didn’t do for a long time
(viahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8E9xXJBU5U)
It’s not that common to find Latin taught at a Primary School level. Yesterday I taught Latin numbers to a class of grade 3-6 students and we all sang this counting song, Decem Urnae. They couldn’t stop giggling when we got to the number six.
For more thoughts on how well these little kids are doing in Latin, check out my latest blog post (http://foundinantiquity.com/2015/05/01/a-latin-counting-song-and-thoughts-on-primary-latin/)
In our final classroom-based workshop this week we looked at Propaganda Posters and Trench Poetry.
We took inspiration from the collection at Fort George including a poem written by 8384 Private W Hendry of the 2nd Royal Scots: ‘In the Trenches, somewhere in France’
….next week we’ll take a trip to the fort itself and continue our research in-situ.
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Primary School Medal Workshop (photoset 2 of 2)
I’ve been exploring WW1 medals, honours and awards with a group of local primary school children. We’ve taken inspiration from medals found within the collection at the Highlanders Museum, Inverness.
The workshop also considered shape, design, context & colour when creating our imaginary awards.
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Primary School Medal Workshop (photoset 1 of 2)
I’ve been exploring WW1 medals, honours and awards with a group of local primary school children. We’ve taken inspiration from medals found within the collection at the Highlanders Museum, Inverness.
The workshop also considered shape, design, context & colour when creating our imaginary awards.
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