5th February 2018

Last week the children wrote motivational speeches as though they were Shackleton speaking to his crew.

They were imagining the kind of speech he could have given to encourage his men to keep going in the face of such peril. 

Today the children delivered their speeches to their tables and some to the class. They had mastered persuasive language and wrote some excellent speeches (an example will follow in another post soon) this week their attention turned to the way they deliver the speech to their audience. They looked at some examples from films and thought about the techniques then tried using them themselves. Each child gave and received feedback to another member of the class.

Tomorrow the children will be taking part in a microscope workshop. This will add a greater depth to their understanding of ‘changing materials’ from our work in science this half term. It sounds like it will be a great deal of fun and give the children the chance to take their experiments on with a different range of resources to use. There will be photos and more information following the day.