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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
Reward System

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.

 

School

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.

 

School

Whole School Discussion

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Before lunch we had a whole school discussion, the first discussion was about the attainment gap. Jessica explained to everyone what the attainment gap is and asked everyone’s opinions on why they think there is this gap. Everyone had a chance to give their thoughts on this topic and Jessica noted these down for the teachers to have a look at to see if there is anything that can be done.

The second discussion was why our school is different to other schools – we had a great discussion on this one, here is some of our points:

  • some schools aren’t as colourful as our one
  • some schools have different playgrounds for different classes whereas we can play anywhere in our playground
  • we all gather together in the morning to say good morning to everyone in different languages and share our news (local, national, international and personal) We also gather together at other parts of the day like after break and lunch and at the end of the day when we all say good afternoon to each other.
  • we don’t have separate classes with different teachers for each primary – it is split primary 1-4 and 5-7. This gives us the chance to build friendships and have discussions with different people.
  • we can walk into the other classroom to get a pencil or glue sticks for example as we do this quietly without disrupting the class whereas other schools you have to knock, interrupt that lesson and talk to the teacher
  • we don’t have assigned seats – we can sit anywhere
  • when it is someone’s birthday they get to wear the birthday hat all day and we sing Happy Birthday to them in 11 different languages! (English with sign language, French, German, Italian, Croatian, Gaelic, Spanish, Chinese, Welsh, Dutch and Lithuanian)
  • the teachers here are in our community so we see them more and you feel you know them better
  • teachers here don’t shout in our school whereas in other schools they do
  • our teachers listen to what you have to say
  • our teachers are friendly

We are the best school in the world!