We looked at the E’s and Os we are going to be covering for topic next block. In groups we had to think about:

I can find out how a sensory organ is made up and what it does, and how the organ responds to outside conditions.

What do we already know?

keep you alive, heart, lungs, kidneys, stomach, spinal cord, heart pumps your blood, our lungs help us breathe, our skin is an organ, most of them are in our stomach

What do we need to learn?

which sensory organs we need to be safe, where in the body are they, what is a sensory organ,  how will our organs react to illness/body conditions, how is a sensory organ made up, what do they do, how do they respond to outside conidtions, how does the body work

How are we going to do this?

make posters, drama interviewing the organs, diagrams, play games, visitors -doctor/body experts, make a book

Why are we learning this?

to keep our body healthy, to help us in our future in case we get a disease, because we are growing up, so we can look after ourselves, so we know how to be healthy in the future/when we’re older

P7 have been designing games using BBC Mixital on GLOW. We researched what makes a good game, designed games for our target audience, then spent time collaborating, sharing and creating our games using the online software. Today P4A came to try P7A’s games. They were great reviewers and gave us positive feedback to work on.

Have you ever wondered how buildings cope with the forces that hit them?

We have been learning about natural disasters and looked at how architects use shapes to help create stronger structures. We learned that rectangles are not good shapes for structures and that triangles are used a lot to make a building stronger. We also learned how the arc of a bridge spreads the weight across the bridge making it stronger than a rectangular flat bridge. We tried some experiments with playing cards to see if we could build structures. It was impossible with rectangular structures but some of us managed to make triangular structures.

By P7A

We worked in groups to think about our next topic and thought about the following:

I can find out about some body systems and the problems that may develop and I can make informed decisions to keep myself healthy.

We decided our key learning should be:

• What is a body system?
• What problems can they have?
• What is an informed decision?
• What can we do to keep ourselves healthy?

What do we already know?

• A body system is a system in your body
• It might be skeletons.
• We need to eat healthily.
• We need to exercise.
• Most of us did not know what a body system was.

I can find out about how is a sensory organ is made up and what it does and how the organ responds to outside conditions.

We decided our key learning should be:

• What is a sensory organ?
• How is a sensory organ made up?
• What does a sensory organ do?
• How does a sensory organ react to outside conditions?

What do we already know?

• A sensory organ controls your senses.
• Sensory organs are your fingers, eyes, ears, mouth, nose.

We want to find out about?

• The brain
• The heart
• Digestion and excretion( a popular one!!!)
• Our eyes and why do people have different colours?

How we want to do this?

• Experiments
• Videos
• Taste tests
• Models
• Dramas
• Powerpoints

Democracy is a government ruled by the people ,so the people can vote for who and what they want.

The people all get a say.

The party’s all have a leader who make decisions.

By Ruby

Democracy is when people can vote of something because they are getting there say

. In democracy people can vote about a current issue

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. Everyone gets their own say

.There are leaders in a party and they make decisions along the way of the campaign

I have learnt…

• I have learnt what democracy is and why we have it.
• I have learnt how to create a speech successfully.
• I have learnt what a dictatorship is and how it works.

• Firstly in block three I have learned how to  recognise democracy between dictatorship. For e.g.  a democracy is a fair environment with a chance to have a say in the rules and the laws of that country and a dictatorship is an unfair environment with only a few leaders and there the ones that get a say in everything they do and the public don’t .

In block 3 we learnt about democracy. democracy is a country or countries that let the people vote.

Countries which don’t have democracy are called dictatorship they can do what ever they want they can kill people for no reason and if someone say that they don’t like him or her they will torture them.

by dylan