School Journalist

Today we had Jane Luscombe (from 3 News) come to visit.  She worked with us, the school journalists to give us a idea of how to be good journalists, e.g. gave us a note pad a pen and a 3 news beanie we also practiced interviewing each other about a specific topic using what, who, when, why, how to help us learn the basics to interview people in school events. We also got taught about how to take notes and write a good article. Overall we have really improved our skills on being a journalist and managed to enjoy ourselves while learning about how to be a great journalist.

Pink Group Papyrus

In Pink group, we have been reading a book called Sandstorm. We did a presentation about hieroglyphics and papyrus paper. We drew hieroglyphics and Egyptian symbols.  We made the papyrus by boiling tea and dipping it in it when the tea cooled down. We left it overnight and drew our pictures, and then some of us painted it and some shaded it.

                                                    

 

 

 

Assembly part 2

We did some research on what life was like in Jesus time.  We put our information together and drew our own conclusions.  We presented these in a play at assembly.

Assembly

Last week on Friday the 28th March we had our assembly.  We show cased our Gymnastics skills

Basic facts

In Room 7 every afternoon we do basic facts that takes 3 to 5 minutes. There are 3 different types of Basic facts. The one you start with is 3 minutes and goes from 0 to 12 times tables.To pass you need to get 50/50. There are 12 sheets you have to do before you go to basic facts 5 minutes. For basic facts 5 minutes you have to answer 100 questions in 5 minutes. To pass you need to get 95/100 or above. There are 9 stages before you go to Basic facts Gold. Gold is the hardest stage with 100 questions that are +, -, x and division and you have to answer them in 5 minutes.There are 5 sheets you have to finish.  After you finished Gold you do the whole 5 minute basic facts but in 3 minutes with still 100 questions. After you completed 3 minutes you get a fancy certificate and don't have to do anything during it.In this photo Eleanor.C and Bianca.A are on basic facts stage 3 and Talia.J is on basic facts gold stage 1. Everyone else is on 3 minutes.

Room 7's Persuasive Writing

In Room 7 we have been learning how to write a persuasive piece of text. the topics we have chosen are what we want the most. This photo is an example of our text being published by Ashleigh L.
Our success criteria is to use a lot of emotive language, have a better technical vocabulary, and use facts and evidence to back our writing.  

Writing - Persuasive.

In writing we have been learning to write persuasive texts - read what Fergus wrote.

I need more basketball equipment because I can practise my skills, I will spend more time outside, it will also give me a more fun attitude to practising and upgrading my skills to a better level of playing.

If I am bought lots of new basketball equipment it will help me practise and I can then have lots of fun by practising instead of being forced to practise when I don’t even want to practise. When I practise more I will improve my game and Michael Jordan once said, “some people wish it would happen, some people pray it would happen but others like me make it happen.”

I know getting me more basketball gear will help me get better but it will also make practising one million times more fun than it would be if I just had a ball and passing against the wall. If I did had more equipment to train with it would make me more eager to get outside and play with my basketball things.

You should get me more basketball equipment because it will keep me of electronics therefore my eyesight will be much more clear and it will give me more of a chance in eye tests and work in school, lastly you won’t need to use your voice to scream “ Fergus get of the computer.”

These are a lot of reasons why you should get me more basketball gear, it will help me get better, I can practise a lot more, it will make practise time more fun and you won’t need to tell me to get of the computer with saves your voice for more important conversations. You will never need to ask me to go outside because I will already be practising. I will give you time to think about it.

By Fergus W.

Are you persuaded?