{"id":4091,"date":"2026-04-24T15:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:11:13","slug":"big-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/2026\/04\/24\/big-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twice a year, the children take part in our whole school &#8216;Big Talk Homework Challenge&#8217;.\u00a0 This is where your child gets the opportunity to prepare and present a talk to the class.\u00a0 The topic will change depending on the focus for that term.\u00a0 This term our\u00a0 topic is &#8216;My Favourite Toy&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>At home, your child should prepare and practise their talk.\u00a0 They can bring in a toy, photos or posters to help them. Please see below a great example of a poster that was made.\u00a0 They used lots of drawings instead of writing which helped the child remember what to say.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1122 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/primary120252026\/uploads\/sites\/20815\/2025\/11\/28162135\/Big-Talk-Poster-example-139x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/primary120252026\/uploads\/sites\/20815\/2025\/11\/28162135\/Big-Talk-Poster-example-139x300.png 139w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/primary120252026\/uploads\/sites\/20815\/2025\/11\/28162135\/Big-Talk-Poster-example-473x1024.png 473w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/primary120252026\/uploads\/sites\/20815\/2025\/11\/28162135\/Big-Talk-Poster-example.png 582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 139px) 100vw, 139px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some ideas to include in their talk might be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is your toy? why is it your favourite?<\/li>\n<li>where did you get your toy? How long have you had it?<\/li>\n<li>How does it work? what makes it special?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The talk should be ready to be presented the week beginning Monday 11th May.<\/b> More details will be given shortly (please check Blog) about which day that week your child will be giving their talk.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to hearing them!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice a year, the children take part in our whole school &#8216;Big Talk Homework Challenge&#8217;.\u00a0 This is where your child gets the opportunity to prepare and present a talk to the class.\u00a0 The topic will change depending on the focus for that term.\u00a0 This term our\u00a0 topic is &#8216;My Favourite Toy&#8217;. At home, your child &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/2026\/04\/24\/big-talk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Talk<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4094,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions\/4094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary120252026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}