http://mrcsblog.com Lifelong Learning Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:48:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At the moment we are focusing on having a purpose for our writing, which means ensuring that we have a clear idea that we want to develop throughout the story. We have started a few of these stories in class using this planning template. I am going to post some ... http://mrcsblog.com/2010/03/05/writing-for-a-purpose/ I know that this isn't your classical dive into the pool, but something like this takes a lot of guts!! http://mrcsblog.com/2010/03/03/a-well-bellyflop/ Check this out everyone!!!  Register your own name and post your results on your blog, even email me how you are getting on.  Some of the activities are GREAT!!  See who gets the high scores! http://mrcsblog.com/2010/03/01/check-this-out/ Well, the votes are in.  It seems that everyone thought that there was more to being a "Councillor" than just "counselling", which is what a "counsellor" does.  I think that this is a fair enough call, as most "Counsellors" will not be expected to do many of the things our ... http://mrcsblog.com/2010/02/25/councillor-or-counsellor-update/ Who should be our school leaders?(polls) http://mrcsblog.com/2010/02/15/vote-for-our-school-leaders/ We are voting for our school leaders and there is some debate over the spelling of councillor/counsellor. They both have similar meanings, but which one is most appropriate for our school leaders? Vote here!!! Feel free to comment as to why you chose "councillor" (a member of a council) ... http://mrcsblog.com/2010/02/12/is-it-councillor-or-counsellor/ Welcome back everyone!!!  Hope you had a GREAT holiday and are well rested for 2010!  We have a great year planned and it has been a great start to the year. < !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> Feb 2010 February ... http://mrcsblog.com/2010/02/08/welcome-back-2/ We have just finished our Inquiry on different careers, where the students in Room 1 had to find out about how to get a job in different industries.  They found out information like the skills involved, subjects in High School to take and courses in University that they would need ... http://mrcsblog.com/2009/12/01/careers-unit/ Hi everyone!!  These poems HAVE to have a mention!  We are doing poetry in class at the moment and we had to choose a colour and then create a poem that describes some unusual objects of that colour.   I think these turned out great!  Well done everyone with your bizarre ... http://mrcsblog.com/2009/12/01/colour-poetry/ Post your answers here.  Make sure you include whether it is the Elf or the Snowman you are answering!!! http://mrcsblog.com/2009/11/26/what-is-behind-the-snowman-and-the-elf/