The Visitors from BECTA
Last Friday some visitors from BECTA in the UK came to visit our school to see what schools would look like in the future. There were six visitors. They only stayed for about twenty minutes in our classroom but stayed in the school for the whole morning.
We had a couple of groups and each group had a different subject, which we did in class. Everyone got to choose what we wanted to do.
They were:
- Mission Maker
- Scratch
- Voki
- Bubble Share (Macbeth)
- Wii
We each showed how we used the technology, why we used it and what it had to do with school. We all enjoyed sharing what we did, we could have talked all day about what we did at school, but the visitors only stayed for a short time!
Wii 
The Visitors (Men in Suits)
Scratch 
MissionMaker
By: Celia, Sharon and Natalie
Even Sandy does the BST!
Today was the second day of the BST (Basic Skills Test). Everyone had to do reading, language and maths.
Sandy, our otter from Sandaig Primary School in Glasgow, had a go at doing the test as well 
She was happy with her efforts, tried as hard as she could, enjoyed the experience but is glad that it is over for another year.
Here are some photos we took of our clever otter friend 
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Basic Skills Writing Test
Today everyone in our class had to do the BST Writing test. Mrs P said that the only sound she could hear was the sound of brains thinking
Years 4 and 6 wrote a report about birds, and a review of a favourite book, movie or TV show; while Year 5 wrote about why we should keep our environment clean, and finished an imaginative story about a mysterious egg.
- We had to plan our writing to get our ideas in order,
- We had to write clearly about the topics,
- We had to use correct spelling and punctuation,
- Then we had time at the end to edit our work.
Whew! we are glad that’s over - until Thursday when we have the Language, Reading and Numeracy sections. Wish us good luck, sharp pencils, and good memories ;)
Fantasy Creature By Martin
I was scouting the surroundings of the battlefield when I spotted a cave at the corner of my eye. I walked cautiously towards the large cave then suddenly I see 2 eyes filled with hatred and revenge, peering at me from the darkness of the cave. The mysterious creature crept out of the cave. I couldn’t believe my eyes I was standing in front of a dragon.
The dragon towered above me standing on its 2 muscular hind legs. The dragon was at least triple my size; its green scales shimmered in the sun. It stretched its enormous wings majestically catching the breeze on its wings. The dragon rocketed off the ground and glided above the tree canopy like a kite in a calm breeze. The dragon then swooped back down to the ground right towards me….BANG… I wake up on the battlefield I don’t know how I got here then I suddenly remember the dragon, could it have all been a dream?
Fantasy Creature by Nancy
This winter holiday was FREEZING. The icy wind stung every uncovered particle of skin and it was even snowing!! The confused weather man quitted, but no-one really liked him. Kids, even teenagers and adults everywhere were snow-fighting, skiing and doing all sorts of snow activities. I was making snowmen, a whole family of them. I just loved making snowmen, and found it super easy. It was getting darker and darker, but I didn’t notice. Soon, I was the only kid left. Instead of making a simple family, I made a large crowd of snow-People.
Once I got off from snow-man planet, I started making my way home. I knew loads of short-cuts, but the shortest one had a lot of trees in the way. I was trying to think of a good excuse for my lateness when I saw a beautiful, glowing silver light which wiped my mind blank. I blinked. It was gone, I thought I was hallucinating but the next second, it flashed again. I thought it was just a lost flash-light, but the light was so bright and … graceful. I just had to go near it.
The light was glowing on a very low and leafless branch. All that light had come from a small, winged creature. It was about ten centimetres high and looked really fragile. The creature saw me, alerted it drew a tiny and silver stick and raised it like a sword. Then, the icy wind blew and it fell unconscious on the branch. The light was fading away from it. It was dying, dying from the cold and snow. I had to save it. I carefully lifted it up and lay it gently in my hand. It was as cold as ice.
I started racing home as soon as possible. I tried warming it up, putting it near the heater and trying to keep it as warm as possible. My mum was next to me, confused, she asked, “What are you doing?” I stared at her. -“Can’t you see it?” - “hmm? See what?” I couldn’t believe it, my mum can’t see it. Was I imagining things? It seemed so real, and I could even feel it. I went towards my room, holding the strange creature in my hand, and covered it up. I went to dinner, trying to pinch a few pieces for that creature in case it was hungry. I went back to my room, but it was gone, the window was slightly opened. I left the food on the table and went to sleep. Thus, I never saw it again.
Fantasy Creatures
We have designed these fantasy creatures.
They might inhabit the “Small Worlds” we created for our holiday project!
We hope you like them :)
Have a click on our individual blogs to read our writing about these creatures
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Samorost ToonDoo
Super Samorost
Would you like to save a planet?
Well now you can!
A dear little seashell planet needs your help - a larger, bird shaped planet is hurtling towards it …….
Help Sammi - a cute little gnome in white pyjamas - and the main character in the game “Samorost”, to save his planet from impending doom by thinking and working your way through a series of mysterious environments.
Read our thoughts and experiences on our individual blogs.
We have been writing sentences, paragraphs and thoughts about the game. We would love to hear what you think ! Have fun and leave a comment.
07 Debaters to Defend the Title!
The Belmore South Debating team has been picked for ”07”. The team is made up of 4 x year 6s and 2 x year 5s. Martin, Clement, Natalie, Gloria, Ramiz and Yilmaz. All of us are in the Allstars, Martin and Yilmaz are pros from last year. Hopefully we will win our second debating title.
Our first debate was against Harcourt Public School, we lost. I was team advisor, the one that writes notes to help rebutt the other team. The audience from their school was laughing, that made my friends nervous. Thats probably why Gloria spoke so fast and didn’t get enough points. That was SLACK! Luckily at the end of the debate, the adjudicator told us our mistakes. So now we can learn from our mistakes and we will do better next time!
Our next debate is against Hampton Park Public School. It will be held on 14th June. I hope we win, I heard they were pretty good last time, and my friends nearly lost last year.
I hope we can beat them. If we can’t ,then I don’t think we can make it to the finals. This time Clement is first speaker for the affirmative team, Natalie is second speaker, Yilmaz is third speaker and Martin is team advisor. I hope we win after our first loss, the debate will beheld at our school.
By Clement & Yilmaz
Are We There Yet? Alison Lester Visits Us
Last week a very special person came to our school. Her name is Alison Lester!!! She is an author and she has written many books like: Are We There Yet? Magic Beach, Clive Eats Alligators, Clive Dances to the Didgeridoo, Snow Pony , Quick Sand Pony and many more.
A number of kids worked with her and she showed us how she did her books. She said that she had steps and this is how she does them:
- She sketches her pictures,
- Starts her writing,
- Does the colours for her pictures,
- Does the cover,
- Checks if her editor approves.
She is a really good drawer and she says that it isn’t hard to make your own book you can just make anything you want. You can keep your work as a book that you made or you can see if anyone likes it and sell it to them. We had to write about either food, school, games and sport.
We had to draw a picture of us doing what we chose to write about: for example say Iwas writing about food I would say “Sokeina likes to eat hotchips and chicken for lunch.” Then iI would have to draw a picture of me eating chicken and chips. The teachers said that Alison Lester signed a few things for us and there going to give us those things hopefully in a few weeks.
By Sokeina
MrsP says: Check out the book Alison Lester is showing us!!!!!!!!
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