Every Friday at lunch recess, Mme Smith and I host Random Acts of Learning (RAOL) in the KCS Library. It’s a drop-in for any students from grade 2 and up to do, well, random acts of learning. Here’s what happened during last Friday’s lunch hour when 47 students came to RAOL:

• Three students from grades 5 and 6 met to talk about a leadership project supporting Syrian refugees
• One brought his Arduino kit to build a machine for his grade 7 service learning project
• Two others worked on their littleBits ‘keytar’ (their own musical synthesizer)
• A few others worked on the video games they’re creating themselves
• Multiple others worked on their own independent projects, just because they want to learn more about something; this will culminate in a class presentation (Habit: Share What You Know)
• Others are working on writing books, a few of whom are writing to submit a French book in a national contest
• The newspaper club came to work on their upcoming edition
• Some older students chose to study for exams
• Many others just wanted more time to read

That was my lunch hour. How inspiring was yours?

Andrea Fanjoy,
Assistant Head, Academics
You can follow Andrea on Twitter @afanjoy.