1. By Miss Partridge

2. In class this afternoon I gave the
children 4 different Brain
Busting puzzles.
For activity 1, I played some Pop
music on my iPod dock really
loud (I chose a song the children
would know the words to so
that they would be singing

4. For the second activity, the
children were working quietly.
Mr Pooley came in and told me
that the disco had been cancelled.
Some of the children heard this
and were soon talking about it
and the news spread like
wildfire!
Of course the disco isn’t really
cancelled, but Mr Pooley’s
fantastic acting skills had the

6. For the next activity, I played
some classical music.
I could see that for some
children this helped them to
focus and they enjoyed
having the music quietly in
the background.

9. For the final activity, I
asked the class to work
in complete silence. It
was so quiet, I could
hear them thinking!

12. Next week we are going to
talk about these activities
and find out what does, and
doesn’t, help us to focus.
To be continued…