Today is a very important day. It is not only ‘Crazy Hair Day’, it’s also ‘Time to Talk’ Day. This is a day when we remember the importance of talking about our feelings and worries. It is important to talk about your feelings and worries because keeping them inside can make us lose our confidence and we can become overwhelmed.

We can talk to our parents and family members, friends and adults we trust.

To celebrate ‘Time to Talk’ Day, we have been making presentations to help our friends manage their emotions.

We hope you all have a fantastic holiday and look forward to sharing our next blog with you later.

P4d and Miss O’Hara

Last Saturday, people in different parts of the world celebrated Chinese New Year. This week in school, we found out lots of cool facts about this amazing festival. On Monday, we made Chinese New Year decorations and fortune tellers. We found out how to record numbers from zero to ten in Mandarin and we created calculations for our friends to solve. Some of us also made posters displaying our learning about Chinese New Year using both pictures and words.

On Tuesday, we used our imaginations to write a Chinese New Year story. In our stories, we told the reader about the events our characters experienced, making sure that they were in chronological order – this means that we wrote about events in the order that they would have happened. For example, we began explaining how the characters celebrated New Year’s Eve, then went on to write in detail about New Year’s Day.

On Wednesday, Miss Burdett taught us how to create a podcast. First, we had to decide on a specific theme, which was something related to St Cadoc’s Primary School. Then, we worked in partners to plan out the content of our podcasts using a storyboard, making sure that everyone had equal opportunity to speak. We recorded our podcasts, timed them and even added in sound effects to make them more interesting for the listener.

As part of Other World Religions fortnight, we worked individually, in pairs or threes to select and research a faith other than our own and present our learning to our classmates in a format of our choice (e.g. PowerPoint or poster). We have been sharing these confidently, practising effective talking and listening skills.

Lastly, we have been learning about ways of keeping our data secure online. We understand that longer, more complex passwords make it harder for other people to access our information and have been practising creating secure passwords.

As you have read, we have had a very busy week and are looking forward to more fun and challenging learning next week!

P4d and Miss O’Hara

We would like to wish all of our family and friends a very happy new year! We have had a very busy first two weeks back at school.

To begin 2020, we have decided to learn more about climate change. From the news, we have discovered that bushfires are causing devastation in Australia and that the ocean temperatures are now higher than they have ever been before. We know that this is caused by global warming.

We have been learning about the factors causing global warming, like factories, planes and cars producing pollution (also known as greenhouse gases). We have been thinking of ways in which we could help reduce the production of greenhouse gases and have made posters to raise awareness about climate change. Here are a few suggestions you might like to try which will help you to reduce your ‘carbon footprint’:

·         Try to walk instead of using cars all the time

·         More people could start using electric cars

·         Car sharing (e.g. travelling to school in a group) to reduce the number of cars on the road.

·         Reduce the amount of single use plastic we use in day to day life.

·         Use renewable energy sources e.g. wind power, solar panels and wave power.

We hope you will join us in taking care of our environment.

Thanks for reading,

P4d and Miss O’Hara