It was Health Week -we’re all exhausted but are feeling the benefits of such an action-packed week.
On Monday we learnt many new football skills and boogied to Zumba music. Then on Tuesday we listened to an inspiring talk Stephanie Inglis a ‘Judo master’. A physiotherapist taught us the importance of posture we tried to balance a book on our heads which we practised on Friday during our writing. Wednesday took us to the Scout Hall for archery and then back to school for basketball and netball. We had gym three times playing team games, rounders and practise for the main event sports day on Thursday. The sun shone and so did the children with everyone receiving medals for their achievements.
On Friday we reflected on our week writing a diary including our thoughts and feelings. We also discussed peoples differences and learnt a new word stereotypes. In the afternoon it was our time to shine as we sang our songs to the Kelty Club members and our celloist played too. Well done to all we returned to school to celebrate with a refreshing ice lolly.
We finished the Demon Headmaster and wrote Speeches for what we would say if we were about to rule the world. We looked at a very famous speech ‘I have a dream’ by Martin Luther King. We used his passion and repetition to help persuade our audiences. After the rush of sports we had a bit of downtime watching the Demon Headmaster TV show which we compared to the book. Most of the class through the Headmaster was not as scary on screen as how they had imagined.
This week we even read a complete short story ‘The Problem with Pulcifer’ a boy who preferred reading to watching the TV in society which favoured TV watching. I am hoping it will inspire the children to explore more books in the future.
In Writing we watched a clip from the movie Castaway with Tom Hanks and imagined that we were him stuck on the desert island. I enjoyed reading tales of survival and innovation. We continued our topic work and took each others fingerprints and learnt that a koala has fingerprints too.
