Room+11

Room 11 Room 11 is an interactive and friendly classroom where we learn through work and play. The children enjoy working in ability groups and love sharing their ideas with others. The feel free to take risks, knowing that their buddies would help if and when they are in difficulties. Children have formed their own goals which directs them in their learning in Maths, reading, writing and topic inquiry research. Most of the students are independent learners.

For Term 3 we are continuing with our Inquiry research topic on Sustainability and our focus is on finding safe places to play at SPS. Hence we called our topic- **Safe Adventure Playgrounds**. To get started we did an inventory or stocktake of what we have and decided on whether playground equipment was good to keep, needed repairs or needs to be discaded. Then we did a survey to find out what senior children wanted on their playgrounds to exercise themselves and have fun. Thereafter we went on 2 trips - one to Cornwall Park to look at playground equipment and the other to Botanic Gardens to get some interesting ideas on how to use natural effects like trees, hedges, wood and plant ground cover. After the trips we drew a plan of our own Safe Adventure Playground which we called SAP.