12th Feb

Today we did lots of work, starting with photos outside as usual -I normally do mine while the children are doing theirs on a Thursday. The children returned to the original spots where they had recorded earlier in the year and made a second recording to compare and contrast any changes. It was a great day for it -the weather has been really unpredictable so far this spring.

The children offered different possibilities for how we could continue with our work together. They voted within the class for their favourite ideas. Then we worked through the different suggestions that the children put forward for recording sound and figured out the practicalities of different options -eg some people wanted to record at home, so we couldn’t try that during school time.

As some of the group went out to do test recordings, the rest worked with Mrs Wilson to make an amazing display showing some of the photos that they have taken to date. I really like it when the children are motivated and working on tasks that they have set themselves and Mrs Wilson and myself are supporting them in their experimentation.

Mrs Wilson is going to send me all of the children’s ideas so that I can think about how to incorporate as many as possible of them in the remaining weeks that we have. One of the most exciting is the idea of recording every voice in the school in order to show changes in the voices over time.