Literacy in Humanities - 500 Words

Travelling into work every morning along the M18 may well be a hard slog if it wasn't for several things. The first is TMS (Test Match Special) during the winter tours. Next winter will be the Ashes in 2013/14, this year saw England win in India for the first time during my lifetime.

If cricket is not on and Nick Grimshaw is playing too much noise for 7am, I like to listen to the bonkers broadcasting of Chris Evans over on Radio 2. This week he launched the annual "500 words," competition for children under 13 years old.

This prompted me to think of assessments for Y7, and one SDP target which is to extend literacy opportunities across the school. This would be the perfect chance to link the work that we have been doing on extreme environments and this nationwide competition. Initially I think we [you] could produce a creative story based on a journey to one of the extreme environments that we have studied so far. Therefore you could write about an epic adventure to the glistening glaciers, or perhaps a survival story in the desperate deserts. Maybe you are an endangered animal in the rainforest fighting against the destructive forces of deforestation? The possibilities are endless, get thinking now before half-term!

MR. J.