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Swallows have been putting the finishing touches to a persuasive letter we are writing to the NYPD or the owners of the Twin Towers, asking them to give us permission to wire-walk across these famous buildings, just as Philippe Petit did in 1974. We have been using all our powers of persuasion in our writing: emotional language, hyperbole to exaggerate, expressing opinions as facts, modal verbs and causal conjunctions to start our sentences. We've got a little bit more to do to finish them, and then we're going to write them up on the Chromebooks.
PGL Day Four - Jacob's Ladder
PGL Day Four - Rifle Shooting
PGL Day Four - Giant Swing
PGL Day Three
Day 3 was brilliant - the children did Laser Tag, which was great - we need to buy a set of laser rifles for the school! Then they did Zip Line, which is always a winner.
After lunch, they did Orienteering, which was tiring in the hot sun, and then they finished their activities with Climbing, which they all really enjoyed.
We rounded off the day with a silent disco, which was great fun.
PGL Day Three - Zip Line
PGL Day Three - Laser Tag
PGL Day Two - Vertical Challenge
Day 2 at PGL started with a lovely breakfast, of course. Then the children did Aeroball, basketball on trampolines, to wake them up. Then it was raft-building, which was hilariously-wet!
After a lovely lunch, the children did Fencing and Vertical Challenge, which tested their agility and climbing.
After a lovely dinner, the Children spent their parents’ money in the shop, mostly buying sweets, before taking part in a multi-school game of Cluedo, the rules of which escaped most people, it seemed. But great fun!
They all went to sleep pretty quickly, with their wet trainers and socks smelling sweetly outside their front doors!
PGL Day Two - Raft Building
PGL Day Two - Aeroball
PGL Day One
The children had a great first day. After a quick orientation, they did Trapeze and Sensory Trail activities. Trapeze involved climbing a tall post to then jump off to grab a trapeze. Sensory Trail involved working as a team when blindfolded, to navigate an obstacle course using their other senses.
Evening meal was lovely, followed by Balloon Splash, which needs no explanation.
The children are having a great time in a fantastic environment and we’re looking forward to Day 2.
Swallows class have been focusing on their writing, and they all had to write a recount of the Rosa Parks story. All the children produced a fantastic piece of writing about a fundamentally-important event in History, linked to our current History topic about the Civil Rights Movement. The children used really specific details about the event, such as how much Rosa had to pay to be bailed out , which was $10, equivalent to about £120 nowadays. Brilliant work, Swallows!
In Swallows this week, we have been working on a quick Writing project of a Balanced Argument. The children have been finding arguments ‘for’ and ‘against’ the question of whether we should save the Giant Kelp from extinction – it is has reduced in amount by 95% in recent years because of the rising ocean temperatures, but because it grows up to 30cm a day, it can still cause problems for fishermen trying to catch fish with their nets. Overall, the class’ writing is really improving and both their technical writing and their content is progressing really nicely.
This week, our Natural Disasters unit in Geography has come to an end, and so I asked the class to choose a natural disaster that we haven't looked at so far, and their task was to produce a Fact File on it. They used ChromeBooks to carry out their research, and then they organised that information into sections of their Fact File. We had some lovely work produced about such natural disasters as Ice Storms, Wildfires and Blizzards and here are some photos of some of their work.
In Swallows, we have been working on drafting 'Opinion Pieces' in English, and we have some lovely pieces of work being developed. We have a range of different subjects, from 'Do donkeys make great pets?' through to 'Is life in the country better than life in the city?', with the children attempting to persuade the reader towards their opinion. Even as a life-long Man Utd fan, Chipo's Opinion Piece 'Why Arsenal are the best football team', is difficult to argue with at the moment, but her writing is a great example of how to structure and construct a persuasive opinion piece, using good reasons, strong sentence starters, and rhetorical questions.
Also, thank you so much for your support and positive words when I met you at Parent Consultations on Wednesday. As a new teacher, it is always so encouraging when parents have lovely things to say about their child's experiences in the classroom, and so I thank you for your feedback.
In Swallows, we have been doing some great writing, both in Science and in English.
In Science, we have been exploring what is 'Under the Earth', and the class drew the layers of the earth and wrote about each layer.
In English, we are looking at Persuasive Writing, and the class had to persuade me to buy this old banger; not all the class managed to convince me to part with my cash! This will then feed into our work on writing a persuasive letter to apply for a fictional job, linked to the book 'Hidden Figures', which we are using as inspiration.
In Swallows, we have recently done some fantastic artwork. The class were creating Street Art designs for a mural that could be scaled up and created in a public space. Some of the designs and slogans have been brilliant - well done!
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