The Tempest by William Shakespeare

At Nexus, all of the Year 6 learners are performing a play called ‘The Tempest’.

The story was written by William Shakespeare. In the Tempest, a magician, Prospero and his daughter Miranda, have been stuck on an island for 12 years when the people who plotted his end, King Alonso, Antonio, and Sebastian is spotted by the island. Prospero creates a tempest causing the ship to wreck. Later the magician acknowledged his mistakes and becomes kinder.

 

All the Year 6s have to do the play by ourselves with only a bit of teacher’s help. We have to bring in our own costumes and memorize song lyrics and lines.

So far, the Year 6’s have been practicing the songs, all very fitting for the scenes, and practicing our lines. At the speed we’re going at, we all feel confident and creative while for preparing the play.

Taking Action - Nepal Earthquake

Nepal Earthquake 25/04/2015

Nepal has had a major earthquake which caused lots of deaths, injuries and damage on homes. The earthquake was by the capital of Nepal, Kathmandu. People are struggling to salvage what they’ve got and it will be hard for them the next few months. Lots of organizations from many different countries are working towards helping Nepal.

Nexus School has recently been solving this problem by donating coins for our own ‘Nepal Coin Challenge.’ Students had to collect all their coins and bring them into school for charity and later make them into a long trail.

Nexus managed to collect $8000SGD!

Editor's Update: It is being reported that there has been another earthquake in Nepal. Our thoughts go out to all those who are suffering terrible hardship there now. Please consider making a donation to legitimate organisations supporting those in need in Nepal.

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Stage 3 Sorting Out: What's Important? What's Interesting?

Stage 3:What do we do with our information?

In stage 3 of our Exhibition Process we were focusing on ‘Sorting Out’.

We asked ourselves what to do with our information. We were also asked to evaluate how our information was connected and to show this on our Exhibition board. We had to think in depth into the concepts and how we could display everything together to show our learning journey.

Several of of us were making posters and presentations to display our information.

by The Year 6 Blogging Team