This week we designed and planned our very own Apps for the Make It Happen Club competition. This involved writing a description about what our Apps would do. Then we drew icons for our Apps which could potentially be displayed in the App Store. Some of us even elaborated on our descriptions by writing about different options and functions that would exist in our Apps.

In writing this week we created persuasive country files, like the examples you might see in a travel agents office. First, we had to consider how this piece of writing was different from our usual types of writing. Then we had to think about how to make our writing appealing to our targeted audience/reader. We used rhetorical questions, emotive language, exaggeration and repetition throughout our writing to meet the success criteria.

The real highlight of this week was rehearsing for our school show! We all voted on our top three roles and then we were allocated one of them. We have also been learning our songs. We are really enjoying it so far!

In P.E. this week we started our tennis lesson series. Mr Atkinson used to do some tennis coaching so he took us back to basics. First, we all had to improve our grips on the rackets and spacial awareness before moving onto other skills. Mr Atkinson came up with a fun way to remember how to hold a racket – “pretend you are shaking hands with it.” Afterwards, we moved around the court like crabs so that we learned the importance of positioning in order to avoid leaving openings on the court. Finally, we practised our forehand swings which we will continue to work on next week.

With Miss Wallace we continued to learn about substance misuse.

Mr Atkinson’s Comment

Over the next few weeks the Talk Homework will be focused on the class learning their songs words and the script. Some afternoon periods will now be spent practising with P6A for our P6 school show which is a comparison between Scotland and Brazil.