Friday, 28 January 2022

Malamander - Conscience Alley

 

Conscience Alley is a drama strategy, sometimes referred to as a Decision Alley or Thought Tunnel. It enables students to collaboratively generate a character's inner (and possibly conflicting) thoughts, usually at a key moment of indecision within a drama.

Today we were exploring how Herbie felt about Violet from our book. He is in a predicament whether to believe Mrs Kracken or Violet to see if she is loyal to him. 




Tuesday, 25 January 2022

Bodyworks - Glasgow Science Centre Learning Lab

We are working with the Glasgow Science Centre on their Bodyworks programme. This programme is devised from the National Curriculum and the pupils are engaging in a variety of lessons. We have learnt  about the digestive system where the pupils enjoyed a real life demonstration in class. Vitamins and minerals are being investigated and the pupils are currently undertaking an experiment to see the affects of vitamins on an apple. 


















Malamander - New Class Novel

 

A quirky, creepy fantasy set in Eerie-on-Sea finds a colorful cast of characters in hot pursuit of a sea monster thought to convey a surprising gift.
It’s winter in the town of Eerie-on-Sea, where the mist is thick and the salt spray is rattling the windows of the Grand Nautilus Hotel. Inside, young Herbert Lemon, Lost and Founder for the hotel, has an unexpected visitor. It seems that Violet Parma, a fearless girl around his age, lost her parents at the hotel when she was a baby, and she’s sure that the nervous Herbert is the only person who can help her find them. The trouble is, Violet is being pursued at that moment by a strange hook-handed man. And the town legend of the Malamander — a part-fish, part-human monster whose egg is said to make dreams come true — is rearing its scaly head. As various townspeople, some good-hearted, some nefarious, reveal themselves to be monster hunters on the sly, can Herbert and Violet elude them and discover what happened to Violet’s kin? This lighthearted, fantastical mystery, featuring black-and-white spot illustrations, kicks off a trilogy of fantasies set in the seaside town.