Nounours, the little French teddy from Walker Road School in Scotland is going home

He has been visiting the AllStars – seeing the sights of Sydney Australia, and even meeting some of the wildlife too!

But now its time for him to head back “up and over” to Scotland – so goodbye Nounours, we have had lots of fun with you.

We will all miss you – boo hoo!

 
Nounours Visits the AllStars from KimPericles on Vimeo.

This term our school has been involved in a project called “Small Words Count” as part of National Literacy and Numeracy Week celebrations.

We have been looking at word problems, how they are written, what they are asking us to do, and how we should read and interpret what we have to do.

Each class had to demonstrate what they had been learning about in this project.

We constructed some designs and made up word problems using percentages or fractions.

This is what we came up with:

We’ve been studying

•  the human body
•  keeping fit and active
•  healthy lifestyles

so we thought it would be fun to make some skeleton artworks.

What you need:

Water colour paints

A4 white paper

Black art paper (or paint your own like we did!)

Paintbrushes

What to do:

1. Using the watercolours, paint stripes over the whole A4  paper
2. Paint the bigger paper black
3. Wait for the papers to dry
4. Photocopy some body parts
5. Carefully trace the body part you want onto the stripy paper
6. Cut out and glue onto the black paper
7. Hang or display in your room!

This week we have used Mario & Sonic at the Olympics to write some poetry. We used the characters to write colour poems.

First we discussed how the characters were different colours, and how their colours reflected their personality .

Then we thought about the colours themselves, and how each colour looked, felt, smelled, the emotions it evoked, the tastes it reminded us of.

Lastly we put both aspects together and wrote poems that showed how the colour and the character  linked together to really show what the characters were like.

We think some of the imagery we used was pretty good!

Click on the links to visit our poetry page!

Here’s a presentation to show some of the steps we went through!

We had an exciting morning in the Assembly Hall this morning. Prasanth, an athletic ambassador from the Premier’s Sporting Challenge visited us and spoke to the school.

He explained that his mother took him to gymnastics because he was a very active child. Prasanth continued enjoying gymnastics, and with lots and lots of training and commitment, he has made it to the top in his sport. Prasanth is currently ranked number one in the world!

Prasanth is dividing his time between gymnastics training and studies at university. He says it takes as much effort and dedication to achieve in his studies as it does in sport.

Prasanth encourages everyone to choose a sport that they enjoy, aim high and work hard at it to become the best you can be- and have heaps of fun along the way.

 A big “Thank you” to Carronshore P5LW students who came up with a few new ideas for us to try in PE.

After working hard for the last 14 weeks, we are coming to the end of the Premier’s Sporting Challenge and we needed some different activities to keep us going during PE sessions.

Over the last couple of sessions we have tried out our badminton skills and skipping skills.

Badminton is trickier than we thought it would be – the shuttlecock is very light and is caught by the wind to make things difficult J

We are trying to skip “double dutch” using two ropes. Some of us can do this but others are taking a little longer to get the hang of this skipping business!

Some students have been investigating fractions in Maths recently. They have been using a website to direct their investigations and have been using coloured blocks to represent different fractions.

The students seem to enjoy using the blocks and have had to think hard to find the correct answers. Working with a friend is very popular because we know that “two heads are better than one!”

If you have a look at the photos you will see that the kids look like they are enjoying their Maths!

The AllStars are playing this cool game to finish up our work on the Olympics and “Healthy, Active Bodies” this term.

First up , we have been using the characters in the game to write new stories about what might happen when the different characters compete against each other in the Olympic sports.

Some competitors will be at a big disadvantage like Dr Eggman and diving, but others have some advantages like Mario and the hammer throw.

Ramiz has shared his story here, and other AllStars will be adding their stories onto their own blogs. Details and links as they become ready

Please let us know what you think

Do you like this story Ramiz wrote? He used the characters from the game  that we are playing at the moment called “Mario and Sonic at the Olympics”. Enjoy and please let us know what you think

It was the most anticipated event of the Games: the 10m platform diving final – Dr Eggman v Princess Peach v Bowser.

 All the bookies were betting on Princess Peach to blow the field away, she had barely made a splash in her previous dives. Dr Eggman was a chance, but was still an outsider. And finally Bowser, regarded as the worst ever diver to ever compete, was a laughing stock! People were telling him to just give up and withdraw from the event.

 Bowser was first up, people started laughing. He jumped up, no twists, no turns, he started falling down.

“Oh, no!” people gasped – he was going to land stomach first…….BOOM!!!! There was a massive splash. People outside thought that World War 3 had started. He was given a 2 for jumping and a 3 for landing in the pool.

 Dr Eggman was next up. He came to the edge of the board; he steadied himself, and jumped. He soared into the air and …. Moments later there was a big crash! Everyone looked up to the roof, and there was Dr Eggman, stuck in it! It took 5 minutes until he fell back into the pool. Then the judges scores came through: 2 points for jumping and 3 points for landing in the pool (eventually) but was deducted 2 points for wasting the judges time – this meant that Bowser was in the lead!

 The excitement was short-lived though – Princess Peach was about to have her turn …. She was grinning! Her smile went ear to ear. There was a sense of expectation from the crowd. She wanted to win, she had to win, and …. She didn’t win!

 She was a shambles! She completely missed the pool, and landed on the judges table with a huge THUD!!!!! She was howling and cried a river of tears and soon the spectators knew why: 4 points for an amazing dive, but no extra points (she hadn’t actually landed in the pool, after all!).  A total score of 4 points.

 The winner was Bowser and so ends one of the greatest upsets in Olympic Diving history!