We’ve had a fantastic week in Hums, yet again the students worked their socks off! We’ve been focusing on explaining why some countries have lower development levels. We looked at environmental reasons such as climate as well as economic and historical reasons such as colonialism. This was linked to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) which has been our case study in exploring low development levels and modern day slavery. We’ve being learning about the social, economic, environmental and political factors of the DRC and applied our knowledge of the causes of low development to explain why the DRC has low development levels. The students then spent two lessons planning their answers before writing their Learning Target 4 assessment on Friday. As you can see a superb level of focus and independent work from the students – I was so proud of all the students as they displayed our HOWLs to such a high standard.
There’s only 3 weeks left of our Stand Up expedition – but we can’t start winding down, we’ve got to wind up! There’s so much still ahead of us, our product and the presentation of learning. An exciting couple of weeks are still in store for us.