Organisation+of+the+new+building

**__ The New Learning Space Groups __** 21st century learning has been introduced in the 5/6 area. This year the 5/6 area are trying something new. Today I am going to write about the new building and the organisation of it. First I will tell you about how we learn in this new space. Last year, we were in our classroom for every subject and we would only see our friends from other classes at playtimes. This year, we are not always in our home groups. We learn with people with the same abilities as us. For example, for writing you might be with Sue and for maths you might be with Don and completely different people. I like this because it is a lot easier to learn and you are with people that are not in your home group. We are not always with other people and we are sometimes in our home groups. When we are in home group, we do our specialists and class activities such as grammar and class craft projects. I think having the chance to work with people in our home group is a great opportunity because you are not with them for most of the day. Some of the time, we are all in the middle, which is what we call the grey carpet. We meet there to eat, hand out homework, watch BTN and talk about whole 5/6 matters and issues. Our homework is handed out based on our ability. This year we have tried something new called Edmodo. Edmodo is a n educational website where student can communicate with teachers and other students if they have any questions. We can also access our homework there. I like this year’s system better than last year’s because our work I more challenging. This gives us a chance to work towards more goals. I also like this because we get to work with people that aren’t in our home group.
 * __ Organisation of the new building __**
 * In the 5/6 area we have decided to move into the new building. There are over 6 homerooms, 2 computer labs, 1 big oped assembly area, 1 year 5/6 art room and two kitchen areas. **
 * We all spend our time together instead of being stuck in boring classrooms. We also have specialists that are really fun including: physical education, music class, and French class (LOTE) and art class. We manage to do all of our work by changing from teacher to teacher to learn different subjects. I find it a really fun idea, and it works well. **
 * The way the building is organised is there is about 106 lockers all in compartments of 8 spread around the building. We have also got really comfortable canopy’s to help us work better. We have also got 5 inter active whiteboards which three are intact and two are portable. The building controls all the lights, heaters fans and even the automatic louvers. There are also ten, windows seven, computers in each computer lab. We have also got a stash of notebooks when we run out of computers. We have got our own 21 century learning possible and really good learning systems. I find it awesome. **
 * By Aymeric Perfrement **


 * By Matilda Robinson **