Harold Life Education

Visiting Harold

On Thursday Room 17 and 19, went to Life Education and met Harold the giraffe. We were learning about feelings and how we can help people with bad feelings. We watched a video about Harold's friend Billy, moving house and going to a new school.

In the beginning Billy was put with a boy that only cared about himself. Billy tried to play with other people, but they said 'there was already too many people playing'. Then billy walked over to a chair and sat down. Just then a ball rolled over to his feet, and a boy about the same age as billy, jogged over and grabbed the ball. 'Thanks,' said the boy, 'my name's Sam, what's yours'. 'My name's Billy,' said Billy, 'Wanna play, we're short on players?' asked Sam. 'What are you playing?' asked Billy. 'Rugby,' replied Sam. 'Okay,' said Billy, 'great,' said Sam. 'Rugby is the best' said Billy. Sam and Billy jogged off onto the field and had the best game ever.

At the end of the video, we talked about who was a leader and who was a boss. Finally the lady looking after Harold handed the Life Education books to our teachers, and we got them in the afternoon. It was great to meet Harold.

By Sophia and Eloise.

Creativity Workshops

In Room 18 we have been doing writing workshops and art workshops. In the art workshops there were five choices: multimedia, panting, salt dough, printmaking, science. In the panting workshop we learnt that if we mix red and yellow =orange and we also learnt about a artist called Hundertwasser who uses bright colors and then his art goes on building to make people feel happy. It also makes the mall look colourful.

We have been also been doing Phonics, Handwriting and Spelling rules workshops. In Maths we have been learning  to solve some very hard problems and some not as hard.



By Ryan

Multimedia Art Workshop

This week was session two of our collaborative art/topic swap.  Last week the Multimedia group painted their backgrounds using the techniques that we learned. We mixed colours and added white to get the right shade and used different equipment such as combs, sponges and spoons to add texture in the paint. 

In today's workshop we looked at using magazines to create an image that contrasted with our beautiful textured backgrounds.

Tomorrow is our last session and we are looking forward to adding the finishing touches to our masterpieces!