Stories from other cultures

                                         Ponyo

Class 9 are watching a film called Ponyo in our stories from other cultures unit in literacy.

This film was from Japan. Some of the proof we found were the children were swapping shoes for slippers in school and they were cooking food with chopsticks.

Some of the messages we found were don’t pollute the sea, never give up on people and never mess with essences of life. TM & BW

Ms Turner's Homework

Find out something interesting about Japan.

Name a Japanese reference from the film.

How you think Ponyo will end?

No More Playtimes!!!

T.J. We were very upset when  we received a letter saying that the children at Walmley Junior, should have no playtime and that we have too many play times. Instead we should have a snack and drink, do a class game, then get back to work and have only half an hour for lunch.

A.Y.We decided to write a reply and send it to Mr.Pilmore and the school governors to persuade them to let us keep our playtime.We chose three main points to keep the schools playtime.



When Mr.Pilmore came in about three weeks after our letters had been given to him he told us some dreadful news... only joking! He actually told us that he had decided to keep playtime after reading 30 very persuasive letters. We all cheered extremely loud. Even Ms Turner did a little victory cheer!

The World's Longest Rivers

CM.

This term we have been learning about rivers. We have found out about the longest rivers which include:

The river Nile, The Amazon River, Rio-Grande, Murray-Darling, Volga, Yangtze, Mississippi, Ob, Yenisei/Angara, Yellow river, Congo, Amur, Parana, Lena, Mackenzie, Niger, Mekong

THE FLOW AT THE MOUTH OF A RIVER                       

   The flow at the mouth of a river is the end of a river, where it enters the sea.EG

THE DRAINAGE AREA OF A RIVER

THE DRAINAGE AREA IS WHERE ALL THE LITTLE RIVERS MEET THE BIG RIVER AND JOIN AS ONE. DH

Yellow River

Fact: 1. Yellow River Basin is the birthplace of China’s culture. The trace of human beings had existed there since hundreds of thousands of years ago. The relics of Neolithic Age were found all around the river. SH 

Rio-Grande

Length (Miles) = 1,885

Drainage area (Sq miles) 310,000

CB