Judges comments from the Japan Webpage Contest:
“We dared ourselves to enter Godzilla’s Den, and were bowled over and thoroughly entertained by the huge range of your Japan-related activities, the quality and creativity of the students’ work, and the sheer effort and passion that has gone into your site. We really loved the way that your site is a collaborative project owned by the class, and could see this would be highly motivational for pupils, particularly as it allows them to leave their own comments and read comments by classmates, teachers, relatives and other visitors. We also felt your site would be very informative and inspirational for other schools looking to create a similar student-led webpage or wanting to try out some Japan-related activities. The design of the site was vibrant and colourful, and we enjoyed your artwork, photos and videos, including some incredible stop-motion animations of origami and tangrams. We thought you had an excellent selection of links to external sites, and helpfully pointed out why you had chosen these. Our only suggestion would be to focus on making the site easier to navigate, perhaps by shortening some of the pages, or having just one navigation menu, if this is possible. Congratulations on winning both Runner-Up Prize and the Public Vote Award!”
This website was designed, created and written by the talented class of P6B, Bearsden Primary School from the town of Bearsden in Scotland. The class consists of 32 children aged between 10-11 years old. We studied the topic of Japan for 8 weeks during our second term of P6, between October and December 2009. This website shows off all the many amazing things we learned about and created as part of our topic. We hope that the website will perhaps help inspire other classes to study Japan and provide some exciting ideas for lessons.
Please leave comments if you like what you see. :-) All comments are moderated.
None of us have ever been to Japan but after studying it as a topic we would dearly love to go on a class trip there and go crazy with chopsticks and sushi! Usually our class trips cost about £5 each but we're not sure that will cover it. However, if anyone is kind and rich enough to pay for 32 children and 4 adults then we can pack our suitcases in an instant!
All images, videos and texts on the website are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 UK: Scotland Licence.
All other images on the website have been sourced from Flickr and attributed under a Creative Commons license.
