Our powers of persuasion

Mrs Allan would like to apologise for any attempts made to persuade adults over the last fortnight, but she is very impressed with our new skills.

 

We have been learning about different persuasion techniques (word choice, appealing to better nature, problem solving and creating a new opportunity or something the other person wants to happen) and then using these in our writing.  Have you been impressed with our rhetorical questions?   We have also identified the techniques used in film posters and book blurbs.  We also spotted some when the instrumental teachers were trying to convince us to choose to play their instrument!

 

Flight

We used the VR headsets to look at some augmented reality barn owls, making notes on how their wings moved and the shape of the wing which helps it to glide and take off. We made notes based on our observations.

We attended a virtual visit with the Museum of flight, who explained the different forces needed to fly and land safely and the importance of aerodynamics.  We learned lots of amazing facts about Concord too.

Here, we are flapping our arms to stay in the air longer…. so fast we’re a blur!

 

We also debated what animals can and cannot fly, talking (at length, loudly!) about the importance of moving with your own power and the difference between flying and gliding.  after much debate, the results were:

Yes, that is a penguin!  Ask us more about what animals can, and can’t fly (as long as you have at least 5 minutes to spare).

 

We made some bottle rockets to explore the importance of thrust and power when making an object take off.  They were very effective!

 

 

 

PE… time for dance

We created disco tig, as our PE warm up.  You can see the rules in the photo. If you were “tug”, you had to be freed with a dance move. Then, we split into groups and we played a game where the first person created a dance move which everyone copied, then the second person copied the first and added their own and so on.   We were moving so fast, that some of us became a blur, and others almost began to fly….

The rules of the game

Classic running  man moves.

Mac taking off!

 

Outdoor learning

We went outside to the area at the bottom of the school grounds this week.

We found lots of different thickness of worms in a damp log. There were plenty of snails too. We carefully sanitised our hands after looking at them.

When we were outside, some people had a group effort to build a house.  When it fell down we had to rebuilt it again.

We made a seesaw from a log and plank of wood.

We had a competition to create the best slide down the hill.  We used, some pole, wood planks and guttering. The slide took the ball the whole way done the hill.  We had some snail spectators too 🙂

 

There was a secret tunnel at the back of a den! We used team work, problem solving, resilience and gross motor skills to move the equipment around, using our imaginations.

 

Health and Wellbeing

We explored online friendships this week, talking about the pros and cons of spending time with friends online, and how we sometimes felt after it.  We were surprised by how many of us sometimes felt a bit sad, worried or upset after spending time with friends online, compared to in the “real world”.  We spent some time exploring different alternatives to some of the more upsetting things we had heard.  Talking to friends online or while gaming should be no different so speaking to them face-to-face.

 

We drew detailed copies of feathers using fineliner pens, focusing on the texture and making the feathers look fluffy or not. We made sure we added that we saw and remembered that none of the feathers were perfect or symmetrical. We had a practise sheet first  and then thought about our success criteria.  We used watercolours to colour our work and we chose whether to use realistic or unrealistic colours.  our fabulous work is displayed in the corridor and we have received lots of compliments!

 

Flight

We were using the Chromebooks to complete some work on flight. We used our comprehension, art and imagination to complete different jobs.  For one of the tasks, we chose from a selection of birds, researched them online and then drew an accurate picture.

We learned:

• there are different wind types (gliding wings, delta wings, soaring wings and manoeuvred wings and take off wings and fast flying wings)
• on each wings there are covert, primary and secondary feathers that all do different jobs.
• there are 10 primary feathers on each wing that help flying most
• different lengths of wings are good for different jobs, such as shorter wings are better for turning corners

Time for time

In Maths we have been using time skills to look at timetables.  We found out how to fill in blanks in timetables. We learned how to calculate the minutes between times and how long journeys would take. We used real-life examples to show which bus or train to catch to get somewhere on time.  To finish, we created our own timetables based on some rules and created questions for our partner to answer.