The Students Take On the Teachers At Netball

On Friday the annual teachers verses students netball game was held here at school. The student team was made up of the top netball team who have recently finished their competition for the year. The whole school came out to support the event. The students had some difficulty getting the ball over the tall teachers but they certainly could move faster than the teachers! It was a fun event which ended in a draw. Can you spot the unique netball uniforms of some of the teachers.

Room 3 Argues For Chalk

Our writing focus this term is on persuasive language. We have written arguments to Mrs Harris, our principal, convincing her to let us use chalk outside Room 3 at lunchtime on Tuesday. This came about after an incident in the playground where we were making the wrong choices and fighting. We brainstormed the issue as a group and decided there was not enough to do if junior and senior students wanted to play together. Below are our letters trying to persuade Mrs Harris to let us use chalk.

They were obviously very persuasive because she wrote back letting us do it!!!!! In the photos above we are working co-operatively at lunch, both junior and senior students, playing with the chalk.

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We Can Use Similes

This week we have found similes in other authors' writing. A simile makes a picture out of words. A simile uses 'like' or 'as' to compare the object to something else. Similes are a good way to build pictures in the mind of the reader. We decided to write about our classmates using similes to describe what they look like, act like and love to do. What pictures have we made of us in your mind?

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