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The Eagle Huntress

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Today the primary 5-7 got to go to Mid Yell to watch the documentary film ‘The Eagle Huntress’

Here is a summary we have written about the documentary:

The Eagle Huntress was about a 13 year old Mongolian girl called Aisholpan who was determined to learn how to be an eagle hunter just like her dad, her grandfather and so on. However eagle hunting is only done by men. You see people in her culture think that girls should be at home cooking and boys should be the ones out working. Aisholpan was sure she was going to be successful though. She knew if she trained she would get better, which she did. She entered the Eagle festival – being the first ever female to enter which the elders didn’t approve of. Aishlop was courageous and even when people were laughing at her during the festival she just smiled and carried on. She managed to break the record and became the first person to be within 5 seconds of calling for her eagle. Everyone was amazed and she did come out as the winner which proved a lot of people wrong. This documentary truly expresses the fact that you don’t have to be a man to do a ‘mans job’. You can do anything you put your mind to it!

This links to what we have been learning about growth mindset as there were times where Aisholpan could have given up but she didn’t she kept trying, she believed in herself and accomplished what she set out to do!

There were mixed responses about the film, some thought it was good:

  • I liked how detailed it was and it mentioned the eagle festival which was interesting.
  •  I liked how the girl believed that anyone can be anything
  • I liked learning about the eagle festival and the traditional stuff

Some thought it was ok:

  • I would rate this 3  stars because it was a bit long so could have been shorter on the other hand though they did add in a lot of detail.

A couple didn’t really like it.

  • There were subtitles so it was more like a reading book
  • The subtitles were difficult to see either because of peoples heads were in the way, the writing got lost in the background or they went before you got to finish reading the line

We also thought about how they could change aspects of the documentary to improve it:

  • The film could be improved by changing the colour and speed of the subtitles so they are easier to read and see them.
  • It could also be shorter to keep the audiences interested
  • I would change the ending by showing us when Aisholpan and her dad got home, it would have been nice to see her families reaction
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Yell Show Cake Making

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For the Yell show we are entering a novelty cake.  On Friday we baked sponge and put it in the freezer until we need it. Today we finished designing our cake and we have already made the cake bases, animals, marshmallow krispies, a bouncy castle and bunting.  We got fondant and have been moulding animals. We made cows, horses and dogs. To make the marshmallow krispies we got butter, marshmallows and rice krispies. We melted the butter and marshmallows together and then added the rice krispies in. We will mould them into cars. To make the bouncy castle we used flumps and cocktail sticks to put them together.

 

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Cooperative learning

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This afternoon we are working cooperatively to find out more about our organs. We have split ourselves into different groups and chosen an organ to research:

  • heart
  • lungs
  • liver
  • kidneys
  • intestines – both large and small
  • pancreas
  • gallbladder
  • stomach

We are researching what it does and why it is important. We are going to make a poster to show all our learning and research. Miss Jamieson and Miss Nicholson has found us videos on Twig to watch linked to each organ to help us, they were really interesting and fun to watch. Each group will then present their findings to the rest of the school so we all know about each organ.

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A scientist comes to visit

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Today Meilo’s sister in law, Venus, came in to talk to us about the work that she does and a little about where she lives. Venus is a scientist that works for a pharmaceutical company. She lives in New Jersey in America. Her daughter Vicky came in with her to draw pictures to help us understand the work that she does. It was very interesting and Vicky drew some really good diagrams of the body and the cells within it which helped us a lot.

Venus talked of how the body is made up of lots of different cells and these are like building blocks that make our body. The white blood cells fight bacteria but some bacteria can try to fight back. Our immune system is amazing though and it can specifically identify the bacteria so it know to kill the bacteria straight away. Bacteria can get into our bodies through any cuts as they go into our blood stream. So remember to clean and cover any cuts to help you stop bacteria getting in and harming your body.

Venus went on to talk about cancer and how cancer cells are much bigger. Did you know that these are actually our own body cells that are out of control, they keep dividing and growing and do not function properly.

There is many ways to try and get rid of cancer. One way is to remove it through cutting it out. They take a biopsy, taking both the normal cells and the cancer cells to look at them under a microscope to look at the differences and compare them. They also compare them to look at the similarities to bacteria. However cancer cells can change so that they don’t respond to the drugs that should have helped get rid of them. Scientists use antibodies to tell what type of cell it is. They then crush the cells to look at their blueprint which helps them pinpoint how they are made up and they can then try to determine how to fight them.

Scientists are now trying a new approach to help fight cancer. They are using our own immune system to teach it to kill the cancer its self. The immune system gets tired and can’t fight these so the cancer shuts down the ‘good cells’ and stop them working. Scientists look at cancer cells and the changed cancer cells and compare this to normal cells. Therefore they want to try to revive the immune cells so they work again. They can create shapes to attract the good cells and the cancer cells closer together.

It is really important to keep your immune system healthy! Here are some ways that we knew on how to do so:

  • healthy diet
  • drink lots of water
  • get enough sleep (this is really important!)
  • and finally…LISTEN to your doctor! If he gives you medicine to take then you should do what he says as it will help you!

 

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House Points Challenge

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Today Miss Nicholson and Miss Jamieson set us a challenge.

Each group had a pile of papers which had the bones that make up our body…we had to put these bones in the right place to make our skeleton.

Everyone worked really well and there was great discussion as to where we thought the bones would go. Once we thought we were finished we got the teachers to check it for us. We all did a great job with only a few mistakes with arm/leg bones. We then cut out the bones so that we could use split pins to put our skeletons together. Once he was complete we named it! (We tried to think of one linked to our group names)

Then Miss Nicholson and Miss Jamieson threw another challenge at us….This time we had to put the organs where we thought they went. This was a challenge, some groups only just started cutting out their organs but Sir Swagsolot Junior was the only one to have his organs placed in his chest/stomach. They got nearly every one in the correct place or very close if not. There are a few organs that we weren’t sure on so we are going to be learning about these in topic!

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Our Reward System

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We get to have our say and decide on a reward system that we want so we all had a think and came up with lots of great ideas, once everyone had shared their idea then we took a blind vote. We narrowed this down to 2: House points and  bucket fillers. We had a final vote and decided for term 1 and 2 we would go with ‘House Points’ as our reward system.

We had to get into groups for this – we decided that their would be 4 groups since there are 4 primary 7 pupils. So we got into a line according to age; the oldest being at the door and the youngest at the window – we even managed to figure this out without talking!Miss Nicholson then numbered us 1-4 and set us off into our groups so that we could think of a name! Here are our groups names:

  • DJ LHT
  • Sir Swagsolot and Co.
  • Pink Fluffy Unicorns
  • Squishy Hamsters

Now that we had our groups we had to decide why we would receive house points for, this s what we came up with:

  • the teachers would set us challenges that we had to work through in our groups
  • good manners
  • being helpful
  • working hard during our lessons

If we are awarded a house point we get to put a tally mark on our groups sheet.

 

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Our Rights

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Today we looked at all our rights and discussed these in groups. We thought about the 3 that we thought were really important and would like to focus on for the year ahead.

After a great deal of discussion the groups gathered together again to share their choices. Most of the groups chose similar articles which left us with 9 articles to narrow down to 3. We decided to take a blind vote.

From the vote we decided to focus on article 6, 24 and 31 this year.

 

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Good Luck Kelly

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Everyone at the Cullivoe Primary School would like to wish Kelly, our clerical assistant, good luck as today is her last day of work before going on maternity leave. We have made her a card and presented her with flowers and the staff gave her a card along with a few goodies. We will miss her but we are very happy to have Norma Graham in to cover Kelly’s maternity cover. We can’t wait to meet baby Keith!