1. Active learning program 2018-2019
Year 7 / year 8 / year 9

2. What is active learning at HeadSTART?
The Active Learning programme is only for Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9 and is meant to:
Create excitement to come to school to attend a subject the students choose and enjoy.
Develop students’ potential
Encourage students to be in control and responsible of their learning process
Provide new learning opportunities
Encourage and help students to develop a unique set of interests, talents, and goals
Present or perform learning experiences, develop transferrable skills, master/retain what they learn, can relate it to previous experiences and future expectations
Teachers of the AL activities become guides, mediators, facilitators

3. How does it work?
Each student in Year 7, 8 and 9 will choose one activity from 8 different Active Learning subjects for the first half term of Term 1 (7 weeks 24/08 to 12 /10).
The students will attend this activity twice a week at 8.10 am; there will be about 16 students per class across two different year groups in each activity:
Mondays: Y8 + Y9
Wednesdays: Y7 + Y9
Fridays: Y8 + Y7
3. The students will keep the same activity for 7 weeks.

4. Active learning activities
ART 1 - SCREEN PRINT
ART 2 - SEWING
DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
VOCAL MUSIC
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
DANCE
DRAMA
FOOTBALL & FITNESS

5. ART 1 - SCREEN PRINT Activity in Art 1 @ 8.10am Favorite Band T-Shirt
Drawing
Computer design
Screen print
Don’t Forget…
Old T-shirt & trousers (or overalls) to protect your school uniform
Activity in Art 8.10am

6. Design

7. Screen Print

8. ART 2 - SEWING Favorite Band BAG Activity in Art 2 @ 8.10am Drawing
Design
Hand embroidery
Fabric paint
Cutting
Sewing
Don’t Forget…
Old T-shirt & trousers (or overalls) to protect your school uniform
Activity in Art 8.10am

9. Design & Pattern

10. Cutting, Embroidery , Sewing

11. Computer Music Technology / Music Mix / DJ Performance
Design technology
DJ Basics
Computer Music Technology / Music Mix / DJ Performance
Activity in DT 8.10am

12. Computer Music Technology
YOU WILL NEED !
Laptop
Permission to download the 30 day free trial of Rekordbox DJ
Headphones
USB memory stick
Computer Music Technology 

13. DJ Performance in October
Learn to Mix like a pro!
Practice your mix on Pioneer's all in one DJ system XDJ - RX2
DJ Performance in October 

14. Confident skilled singers are encouraged to join !!!
VOCAL Music
POP BAND
Vocal Pop Band
Development of student’s XFactor abilities
Training on favorite XFactor songs
XFactor Vocal Melodies & Harmonies
XFactor Performance
Confident skilled singers are encouraged to join !!!
Activity in Music 8.10am

15. instrumental MUSIC STOMP Activity in Music 1 @ 8.10am
Instrumental Percussion : African, Latin, Afro-Cuban, Jazz
Body percussion
Cups song
Activity in Music 8.10am

16. Instrumental Percussion

17. Activity in Exam Room (Floor 4) @ 8.10am
DANCE
DANCE THEATRE
Using Words, Emotions, Situations, Melodies, Rhythms of a song to create a choreography
Contemporary technique / Contact dancing/ Improvisation /Acrobatics/ Choreography
Video of the performance
Don’t Forget…
Tracksuit pants
Decent T-shirt
Trainers
Kneepads
Water bottle
Activity in Exam Room (Floor 8.10am

18. Dance/Drama Studio (Floor 4) @ 8.10am
COMEDY
Slapstick
Physical comedy
Clowning
Commedia dell'arte
Masked theatre
Improvisation and scripted
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Dance/Drama Studio (Floor 8.10am

19. COMEDY Commedia dell'arte Clowning Masked theatre Slapstick
Improvisation
Scripted

20. Activity mostly outside Meeting in Front of Sport Hall @ 8.10am
Football & fitness
Football games
Fitness cardio
Resistance training
Muscular endurance
Stamina
Strength training
Core stability
Team Building
NOT TO FORGET ...
PE kit
Hat
Sunblock
Water bottle
Activity mostly outside
Meeting in Front of Sport 8.10am

21. Active learning activity CHOICE
Please fill in the form with preferred Active Learning Activity, numbering your choices
We will try to get everyone’s 1st choice but this will depend on demand. Activities can only have 16 students each.
If you don’t get your first choice for Term 1, we will make sure you will do this activity for Term 2 or Term 3
DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY