Day: January 17, 2020

This week, Learning for Sustainability DYW group were creating pictures out of natural materials.  Have a look. What do you think they have created?

  

    

      

In P.E. we were learning how to use the tennis racket and how to hold it as if shaking someone’s hand.  We learned that you have to hold it top the side and flick your wrist.  We split into groups of 3 of our choice and had a job each.  The runner, the batter, the baller. The baller’s job was to throw the ball and the batter’s job was to hit it back to the baller.  The runner’s job was to catch the ball when it bounced it in a different direction.  We discussed that in tennis the proper name for the runner is the ball boy or the ball girl.

In writing this week we were making leaflets about Newton Mearns and persuading people to come here.  We were focusing on including a bold heading, a few sub-headings, lots of information in paragraphs under the sub-headings or in bullet points.  We discussed that it would need pictures and colour to make it attractive to the reader and some pictures could have labels or captions to tell the reader what the picture is of or where it is.  In addition, we tried to include persuasive language which are adjectives that describe something to make it sound great and to encourage the reader to want to go there.