Junior School
From A to B
Mr Thomas Waldron, IPC Coordinator and Year One Teacher
The Year One students went to visit the Transport Museum located
at Taman Mini, Jakarta. This was in line with their current learning in
the IPC unit ‘From A to B’.
They got to see many exciting types of transport used in Indonesia
and all over the world and not only some that are used today but
some that were used by people in the past.
The students were excited to learn that Jakarta had its very own red
double decker bus from London driving around its streets not so
long ago and they were able to see it in the museum.
There were boats, planes, cars and lots of other types of transport
that was used a long time ago, some time ago and very recently on
show.
There was even an opportunity to board a real Garuda Indonesia
aeroplane and have a go at sitting in the pilot’s cockpit!
Cars, Bikes and Motorbikes… It’s all about Transportation!
Suhana Jacky Khiani, Year 5
The Year one students are in the process of learning all about
transportation and how they get from place A to place B. Their host
country is Canada. The big idea is, “Everyday people all around the
world make different types of journeys, on land, on water and in the
air.” To make these journeys, people have invented lots of different
ways of getting from A to B. They are learning about so many types
of transportation in different subjects.
In Geography, they are learning about how people travel around
Jakarta, how to make maps to record their journey to school, the
types of transport in Indonesia and Canada and lastly, how to create
their own activity holiday. These are all fun activities they had and
are still having a lot of fun working on tasks.
Secondly, about society and how to take care of themselves, they
will be finding out how to cross the road safely, about bicycle and
road safety and lastly, about people with restricted mobility. Their
vocabulary words are train, submarine, car, bus, helicopter, bicycle,
ship, hot air balloon, aeroplane, space shuttle and boat. They need
to know the meanings of these words to understand the topic better.
In Science and experiments, they explored how to make their own
sailboats and aeroplanes. They also learned about the force
involved in sports, how to make a fair test and how power sources
make things move. They are learning things, which are challenging,
but they are grasping it really quickly.
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