This term, we have been introduced to a fantastic new skill-building project called Commando Joe’s. Commando Joe’s is all about solving problems and looking at how we can work as a team. C-J’s (as we like to call it) is led by Jack every Friday, who works for the Newcastle Foundation. At the start of each session, he runs us through what we are going to be doing that day.
This term in Year 6, we have been studying the life of Ibn Battuta. We have looked at what it would have been like travelling across the desert-like Ibn Battuta and how he would have had to trade with people to get food, water and lots of other essential items. In some of the C-J lessons, we set a market for trading. We replicated sailing a ship with a blind captain, by making an obstacle course, where we had to give instructions to a blind-folded person. We have also created a courtroom for when a boy stole some bread, along with many other situations.
So far, C-J’s is a great learning experience which has taught us some new everyday skills, like teamwork and communication, which we can apply to everyday situations. We are all really looking forward to another term in Commando Joe’s!
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At Red Rose, we have been investing in a new system, called Commando Joe’s, where we have missions to boost new skills. These skills include :
resilience, empathy, self-awareness, passion, excellence, communication, teamwork - these spell out RESPECT
In every lesson, we build these skills by experiencing new and hard challenges. Some of these include: building an obstacle course to direct a sea captain, making pulleys to lift heavy objects, moving objects in and out of the CoJo box, we even did bullfighting but don't worry it wasn't real, we have also done way more activities all through the year but sadly we have had to stop for winter.
How the CoJo box came to Red Rose
One cold day we were in the yard waiting to go into school, as it was freezing when something caught our eye… A box with a parachute on top was caught in a tree, we rushed over to see but in a split second the gates opened and our freezing bodies forced us to go in before we could investigate this situation.
Half an hour later we were called outside finally to see and find out about this amazing UFO (unidentified flying object ). We were amazed to see that the UFO was actually a box filled with amazing objects that we can use to complete missions with our instructor Jack.
This term we have been looking into an explorer called Ibn Battuta who travelled around the world about 1000 years ago! I wonder what we will do next.
