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A project to strengthen relationships with a school twinning scheme and apply maths learning skills to a construction project

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Page 1: Discovering Malawi

With Miss Thomas year 4 and 5

Page 2: Discovering Malawi

We began by looking at how colourful most of the buildings in Africa were, and

compared them with colourful buildings which had been constructed in Europe. These

looked like they were inspired from other building styles from around the world.

Page 3: Discovering Malawi
Page 4: Discovering Malawi

Every pupil recreated this template on a A2 sheet of card, this required careful

accurate measuring and mental arithmetic. Maths applied to a real world setting

Page 5: Discovering Malawi

Every pupil in the class made a scale model of the Mgosa school in Malawi and

decorated it with patterns, teaching equipment and images from traditional stories

Page 6: Discovering Malawi

We tried to predict the construction costs for the replica school building, by listing

and pricing all the required elements. The cost was well within our budget.

The application of maths to provide information, again in a real world situation.

Page 7: Discovering Malawi

The application of maths to construction tasks was used constantly as every cut line was

calculated and measured. This also required the use of hand held power tools to cut

materials to size and fix them together. Priming of all the boards was also done by pupils

Page 8: Discovering Malawi

We made this building in wet, occasionally snowy and always cold conditions

We have a blackboard inside the building as it is a school............. Remember!

Page 9: Discovering Malawi

We drew around ourselves with a pencil and then painted our own portraits

Page 10: Discovering Malawi

Everyone did their school badge and Rob might have helped with our faces

Page 11: Discovering Malawi

We had a basic pattern idea but had to adapt and modify it as windows and corners interrupted us

Page 12: Discovering Malawi

These are puppets, we could screw them to sticks and perform the stories

we have written. We also have made batik curtains using material dyes

Page 13: Discovering Malawi

We displayed the books written in class, the drums, and the batik curtains, and the blackboard. The

cut out animals were the characters in some of the books. One parent said my son comes home from

school every day and goes straight into the shed to saw and nail pieces of wood together together.