Fragile Dreams

Year 6 Summer Term

Definitely the most adventurous way I have used the Wii within the classroom to date. I showed the children the box and the blurb before placing them into mixed ability groups. I then asked the children to consider all of the types of writing they had completed in Year 6 and to plan some units for the following lessons.

I was surprised with the amount of ideas produced by the children. Beyond the basic vocabulary and description work, the children suggested we use the game to write diary entries, suspense writing, character creation of ghosts and ghouls and newspaper articles. One child even suggested we link our English to PSHE and think about relationships and loss of loved ones.

I kept all of the ideas created by the children and each few days I asked them to decide which they wanted to do. For each new topic we had a session in which the children created their own success criteria. Then we based our next few lessons around the game.

The biggest reward from this was having the opportunity to observe quite how much the children had learnt over the course of the year and to see their level of maturity.