Successful World Book Day!

Well we finally managed to have our World Book Day.  A little later than planned due to my chicken pox but hey!
The children worked really hard to get everything organised, so that on the day we had: an African reading tent covering the wall bars, book stalls and quizzes for each age group in the [...]

Chicken Pox!

The children have been working really hard to gear up for World Book Day.  They have organised quizzes, fancy dress, a book sale and various events in the reading tent.  Unfortunately disaster has struck and I, unfortunately, have contracted chicken pox.  This means I need to be off school for the week.
I am really sorry [...]

African Stories

The Big Argument
The Giraffe’s Neck
The Moth and the Butterfly
The Zebra, the Cheetah and the Leopard
Why Turtles are so slow
Starfish and the Jellyfish
How the Shark and the Dolphin Became Friends
Boaconstricter
A bad way to treat friends
The Moth and the Butterfly
Why Pigs Roll in Mud
Why Eagles Fly and Emus Hide
This week we have been busy bees trying to get our African stories finished.  The children having been using Word [...]

Fiction stories and African tent

The children have been working pairs to produce either fables or African “why” stories e.g. why the giraffe has a long neck.  I haven’t done a lot paired writing before and I am really surprised by the results.  The old adage “two heads are better than one” really is true in this case.  The children have really [...]

Children in charge

Today the children took charge of their non-fiction books.  They wrote a list of all the things they needed to include like contents page, index, front cover etc.  Each group had a leader whose job it was to oversee everything and check it was getting done.
As a teacher it was really hard to relinquish control [...]

Africa Art

This week we learnt about the importance of masks in African culture.  We made some masks in art using contrasting coloured paper.  We cut our masks out one side of the paper and then flipped them over on to the other coloured paper.  We has to think about drawing stylised eyes and mouths etc. We [...]

African Dancing

This week we have been learning some dances.  We learnt a traditional Scottish celidh dance called the Eva 3 Step.  Then we tried to add some African moves into it.  We were thinking about African warrior poses.  Here is a website that shows some traditional African dancing and teaches some of the moves:
http://www.africadance.dk/en/video/
Hopefully we will [...]

Hello world!

Hello everyone.  This blog is for P6 at South Park Primary to explain how they getting along with their Rich Task project.  We are currently investigating Africa, with the view to writing our own African stories, poems and fact files, making African art and even organising an African World Book Day. 
The children will post here [...]