Games

For the past few weeks, we have used the lesson on Tuesday afternoon to play games. Pupils can choose from a selection of Monopoly, Scrabble, Chess and Draughts.

Games are a great way of interacting with each other, communicating rules and practising conflict resolution. In addition each individual game builds different specific skills. Chess is a personal favourite because it strengthens strategy, preparation and teaches cause and effect in a brutally effective way. For example, if you leave your Queen unguarded, your opponent will take it. Once you have lost your Queen, it is very difficult to win against a player who still has his/her Queen.

Anyway what has all this got to do with literacy?

I can justify Monopoly and Scrabble quite easily, but Chess? There is no reading and writing going on. As an aside, the most popular games in the class are Chess and Monopoly. I decided that we could try writing the rules for the games in Thursday's computer lesson. I was keen to encourage new variations on the old favourites, so check these out.

As always your comments are much appreciated. Welcome to our new readers in the US and Portugal. Whilst not forgetting all our old readers, "Hello to you all".

Mr B

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4 way chess

1) Set up your 4 boards.

2) Starting from the back of the board on the squares
· 1 Rook at each end
· 1 knight on the inner squares
· 1 Bishop on the 3rd inner square
· 1 queen on the next square
· 1 king on the next square(middle)
3) Next row up
· All eight pawns on every square.

The aim of the game is to work with your partner and try getting your enemies out of the game.

WHAT TO DO

If your player loses her king on his/her board all the remaining pieces go to his/her ally.

by FK
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Dirty Harry

Instructions…

· Grab a chess board
· Grab five chess pieces for each side king, queen, 2 bishops and a pawn.
· Use any piece to try take out the opponent’s king but also try and protect your king as well…
· You can only move forward 1 and diagonal 1.
· You cannot move backwards…

To win must know how to strategise and get to know your opponent’s next move.

(Note you cannot take the opponents pieces except for the king)
The winner is crowned dirty Harry…
GOOD LUCK!!!

Game by JE
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Deadly Pig Hunt

· Its like snakes and ladders but better because its to do with pig hunting guns and all
· You can have 6 players. Its got 200 spaces at two hundred you finish if you win you get something good
· But there’s some traps on the way. One of the traps is going back 25 spaces and there some goods things too. The best one is getting a gun and moving up 50 spaces.

Game by PW

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Snakes and Ladders


It’s really easy all you need is a dice and a snakes and ladders board.

All you need to do is roll the dice and move the counter forward whatever spaces that the number on the dice shows. However if you land at the bottom of a ladder that’s in your box you go up it, but if you land in a box that has a snakes head in it you have to go down the snake.

The winner is the first person that gets to the 100 sqare.

Game by TJ