Extend - What new ideas did you get from today's sharing that you would like to try out? When?

Challenge - What is challenging or confusing? What do you wonder about?

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For me, I have not brought students out for the day trip yet. However, the session connects with what I had learned in NIE/PESTA and done with other levels, where we learnt how to instil a sense of place to students.

Extend:

I want to adopt the tuning in activity that we tried out yesterday. I think it’s a great way to make students practice using their 5 senses.

Challenge:

The challenge for me would be how to make it engaging for the kids who are disinterested in the outdoors.

I can also sense a strong rapport between the trainer and HWS PE teachers.

Despite limited time, the session was never rushed, allowing thoughtful reflection and deep engagement.

Extend – The selection and discussion on what constitutes a “good” nature journaling entry effectively highlighted that beautiful illustration is not the sole marker of quality.

Participants were informed that artistic skills are not required to capture meaningful observations during nature journaling.

Challenge – There are elements of nature journaling and appreciation already embedded in various subject across the school such as Science, PAL Art, ALP etc.

Naturally, the PE department cannot impose slow pedagogy or other aspects of PE across disciplines.

I am wondering are there existing school practices or strategies we can tap into to leverage OE-aligned opportunities more intentionally?

I did not conduct the day trip but was involved in the safety aspect and choice of place. I see more potential after the sharing especially the way the students will be involved in journaling where they will actually be away from their digital devices and awaken their senses.

Extend : Story telling, tuning in are not new ideas but good reminders for enabling the students some buy in. You don't have to Picasso and I see the link / connection for Art and editing. What I see and what my friend sees and the discussion will be very engaging.

Challenge : I wonder how and I wonder why, yesterday you told me about the blue blue sky ....

I wonder if the students can be brought back to using their senses for observation in an outdoor setting, whether they will have the patience for nature journaling for example. Some I worry may get frustrated by not being able to draw or express their observations in words. I suspect that many of them have not been able or have noy taken the time or given the opportunity to see the blue blue sky... but instead see their small small screen..

Extend - Definitely the part where we got the kids to sit down and engage their 5 senses. I believe that was a good start to any of the OE lessons and I'm very keen to use this as a start for all my OE lessons.

Challenge - I don't think there is anything confusing. Rather i felt that the challenge for some, not all the kids will also be the reason to connect or relate to the natural or surrounding that they are in and make it make sense for them.

I had conducted a similarly many years ago. It reminded me nature journaling on top of looking at things flora and fauna from a micro view, it can also be looked from a wide angle, like the shape of the canopy the various heights of different trees, and the general landscape when zoomed out.

Extend

Will definitely try out the tuning in activity and cues before the start of the nature journaling. Giving them sufficient time to connect to the surroundings.

Challenge

Pupils are keen to head out for nature journaling , challenge will be balance their excitement while being focus and attention to details during the activity.

Done many such activities over the years since early 2000s. My style is different and am quite comfortable with motivating students to connect to nature.

Extend

Will probably go further by getting students to identify plants or insects using apps. The OE sharing at TCEF was fantastic- titled Technology Lah.

Challenge

Probably leverage on the OE resource pack to excite the students to go deeper with nature.

This Nature Journaling is very new to me. I am very happy to learn from the trainers what I should do when carrying the activity (Day Trip)

Extend:

I will consolidate the ideas I learnt from the trainers and the drawings from the teachers into ppt slides and share them with the pupils, so that they will have a better idea of what to do before their pre-trip and their actual day trip.

Challenge:

I wonder how the pupils are going to contain their excitement, without talking too loudly (as it is early in the morning and they are in a public place) while walking to the place of destination (playground/garden). I do hope when they reach the playground/garden, they will be focus, use their 5 senses and draw/ write down their observations.