Gifted and Talented Summer School 2005
Gifted and Talented Summer School 2005
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Children from Tameside schools were treated to a week at Winmarleigh Hall enjoying a wide variety of activities from quad biking to orienteering.
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Shot of Winmarleigh Hall and children walking around the grounds.
Shot of a sign that says Initiative Exercises and Team Challenge.
Shots of children doing team exercises.
Boy
We've got to get the tiles, we've got to put each tile onto one white column but like A can't be joined up to B and B can't be joined up to A or C. So consecutive letters can't go next to each other.
Girl
We've put G and H apart, and we put A and B apart then the others fit around them.
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The children try another team exercise.
Boy
It's a triangle that's down, and we've got three moves to move the objects that are shaped as a triangle to do it facing the opposite way.
Girl
I have this sort of puzzle at home to change the fork the other way round so it might be a bit like that.
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The children try an exercise called Charlotte's Web.
Boy
It's called Charlotte's Web and what we've got to do is each one of us has got to crawl through a hole but we've got to crawl through a different one every time.
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The children are in the ICT block making animations on the computers.
Chris - ICT and Activity Instructor
We are on part 4 of a 4 part video project where we'll be making animations or using animations to make our own storyline.
Hayden - Pupil
We're doing digital instructors and putting all the scenes where they need to go and adding voices where they go in the scenes.
Chris - ICT and Activity Instructor
We've used most different types of media. We've got text, we've got music, sound effects, we've got voices, we've got video, we've got stills. So we're integrating all those to make one multimedia project.
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Shots of the children playing table football.
Shots of the children being taught how to ride quad bikes.
Hayley - Pupil
I thought it was dead funny when I was going dead fast, it was really good. It was a bit hard to turn but you just get used to it.
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Shots of the children cheering their friends on quad bikes.
Louise
Ok guys, my name's Louise and today we're going to be orienteering, has anyone got any ideas what that is? Yep, go on.
Boy
You've got the map and all you have to do is find these places and you snap it off on a score card.
Louise
That's right but what we have on this course is a piece of paper and around the course there are loads of different punches I'll explain what they are when we get out into the field, and you basically just have to punch the cards and a different series of dots will come out at each point so I can prove you've all been to different ones. Because if you juat punch the same one I'll know you cheated.
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The children start orienteering.
Louise
Now that you've all got a punch card I'll start by sending you off to a one point for starters then two then maybe three and you go like that, put it into the box, punch it and some dots will appear in the A box. You'll bring it back to me and I'll check it on my sheet and make sure you've gone to the right point.
Louise - To camera
Orienteering is finding your way around the map to pick up control points. Here control points are just a little white and red square with a hole puncher in and they use their cards to punch a series of dots and bring it back to us and we can tell whether they've been to that point. They need to be able to communicate together, because if one goes off one way and someone else goes off in another they're never going to find anything. And they learn how to map read a little bit and find their way around.
Louise - To children
I reckon you guys should go to F now, and work together. Where have you two just been? C. Right, put your cards the right way up. Yeah! Well done!
Boy
We're looking for a little pad that's got red and white stripes on it. We've got to get a piece of paper and stamp it in and it's got a letter in it. So it's got to be somewhere over here.
Chris Corbett - ICT Co-ordinator, Broadbottom C of E Primary School
I've come to have a look at what the children are doing on this week. I'm particularly interested in ICT mixed with the adventure which I think is absolutely fantastic because they get to do all the activities, the abseiling and the zip wire, things that they wouldn't do normally. And they're away together so that helps their social skills too.
Lucy - Pupil
The weeks been really fun but you get really hungry and it's really tiring. And canoeing was best even though we got absolutely soaked and you ended up putting yourself in the drying room for about 5 days!
Harvey - Pupil
I really enjoyed orienteering what we've just done now because it was good exercise and it's nice to get out and look around things.
Diana - Pupil
I really enjoyed being here this week. My best thing is quad biking, it's fun.