Congratulations to our Year 5 Debate Team who competed in the National Primary School Debate this week.

‘Money Is More Important Than Education’ was the moot of the day.

Our team certainly delivered some powerful points, each presenting superb speeches lasting 7, 5 and 3 minutes respectively.  Special congratulations also go to one team member for winning a best speaker trophy. We are very proud of all the children’s efforts and how they rose to this challenge of public speaking.

Watch highlights of the debate, and see the children being interviewed, on our local WIV 4 news channel:  Primary School Debate Interview

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As part of our art project, we set ourselves the challenge of building a huge ocean mural directly onto our Tudor topic display board. In order to decide how to lay out our mural, we looked at a range of artworks from all around the world. Then, we used all of our cooperation and communication skills to organise ourselves into teams, so that we could work effectively together. Once prepared, the fun began! We pasted torn strips of paper onto the board using glue, layering each colour to create the impression of crashing waves. In just over an hour, with our hands and fingers thoroughly stuck together, we could step back and enjoy our creation! Read on to see more photos of us working together on this project and the finished mural.  We hope you like it as much as we do – please call by the Flamingo classroom to take a look for yourselves at the real thing.

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It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the Flamingo Classroom! To introduce our topic on Tudor Explorers, we have been thinking about life on the ocean in many aspects of our learning. In our Literacy work, we have used ‘The breaking wave of Kanagawa’ by Katsushika Hokusai to inspire poetry writing.   Throughout the opening weeks, we have been exploring how to use word and phrases to create moods, sounds and images in our reader’s imagination. To get our own imagination working hard, we re-created the sounds of a tempest using only a few musical instruments and our own voices. This ‘soundscape’ helped us to experience the storm. It actually sounded quite frightening! Fortunately, it also gave us some excellent ideas for our writing!  Come and read our poems, displayed on our Storm Mural in our class.

This year we welcome a new student to the Pelican Class – Barney Barker. All the way from England, Barney the dog has come to Provo Primary to be looked after by the children of the Pelican Class. He has only been here for a week and they love him already! Every night, Barney  goes home with a different child and has lots of fun  – maybe he’ll get to go to the beach, soccer practice, ballet class or even a restaurant one day! Who knows what this dog is going to get up to! Read on to see a photo of Barney with his new friends.


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