EDGE Communication and Collaboration

First Year EDGE (our Innovation& Digital Curriculum) lessons have really taken off in the last couple of weeks. Pupils have learnt about the art of effective communication when challenged to build Lego back-to-back. One person has the bricks and the other the instructions and they need to work together (without looking) to build the final piece!

We have also started our first project in collaboration with Sal’s Shoes. Many thanks to those of you who kindly donated shoes last week, our First Year pupils will, in the next few weeks, be travelling to the Sal’s Shoes warehouse, learning more about the charity and getting stuck in and sorting through the Caterham donated shoes, helping them to find new feet. This week pupils were presented with some shoes from the senior school teaching staff, each one with a label about where the shoe had taken them, an important event it might have attended, or a reason why the shoe is valuable to that individual. Pupils have reflected on what we can learn about someone from their shoes, what assumptions might we be making about them? The challenge of course was to work out, which shoe belongs to which member of staff? More will be revealed next week!