Friday, 18 November 2016
Reading (every day)
Please
write in your reading diary when you have read.
Maths (20mins):
Our
topic this week is time. Maths homework will be posted on the Mathletics
website. Please also practise reading the time to the nearest minute with your
child (using an analogue clock face). You could also practise converting
between analogue and digital and 12 and 24 hour clock. Try to work out timings
e.g. how long until we have to leave for school, how long did it take us to get
here etc.
Please
ask your teacher for a paper copy of the homework if you need one or if you
have trouble logging on.
Please
also practise your times tables. I need to practise my ____ x table.
Literacy (20mins):
Is learning to swim important?
Newsround Article (10th November 2015)
Almost half of children leaving primary school can't swim well enough according to a report by the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA).
The ASA say that children should be able to swim the National Curriculum standard of 25 metres without any help before they reach secondary school.
But many schools say that getting you guys to the baths and back again without taking up too much of the school day is a real struggle.
We are lucky enough to have swimming lessons at school. Not all children learn to swim at school. Do you think it is important?
Try to come up with three arguments for (reasons why children should go swimming in school time) and three arguments against (reasons why children should not go swimming in school time). Try to write at least 2 sentences for each reason (one to give your reason and one to explain it). This means you should write 12 sentences in total.
As I see it I think swimming is crucial to learn to swim for young people in primary school because what if the child is on a boat and falls into the sea, and starts drowning. The child will need to swim to save her or his life. On the other hand this incident rarely happens so instead of wasting precious time in swimming teach them safety and not to drown. I doesn't surprise me that the ASA want children to learn swimming at a young age because when you are older you get less flexible and can't move very much. If you learn at a young age you are more able to learn the sport. Swimming is also fun and entertaining to do as well and for people who want to go into the Olympics should learn the sport of swimming. Children will also miss important lessons that teachers need to explain to them. A really bad thing that can happen if you go swimming is you can catch a flu or virus. Things like coughs and colds come from people but a verruca comes from swimming pool water. If necessary precautions are taken by the swimming authorities then swimming in that pool is fine.
ReplyDeleteREASONS FOR:
ReplyDeleteI think people should have swimming lessons in school times because if they didn't have boats to sail pass the river they would have to swim across the river. If they didn't know how to swim they might shrink and die. They could even be eaten by a shark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
REASONS AGAINST:
I think you shouldn't have swimming lessons because if you did you would swim in the water for long and could die again. You might not swim because if the water was too cold you could get sick.
HAVE A LITTLE THINK AND CHOOSE ONE.
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ReplyDeleteI think that children should go swimming so they now that they have done swimming all ready. On the other hand, they should do it in the future so they could now more because they could forget it when they are older. But they could fall in the sea when there 10 and they could not swim so could die or someone must rescue you so should learn how to swim. Maybe some children have phobia of swimming so they could do it later. Also they could have bad health conditions like they can’t breathe in the water for long so they would do it earlier on so they will have better abilities . If you do it in your primary school you could have more time to other things like homework.
It is important to swim to get exercise. It appears to me it will make us healthy. It is good to swim as it is a skill. It is a good skill as it can save people's lives. Some parents can't afford to pay for swimming lessons. It might be that don't have enough money.
ReplyDeleteIt is impotent not to so swimming in school time. It can take cover of lessons that are more important than swimming. If the school spends time on swimming it would be a waste of money. The school could use that money on resources that the class can use. It is better to spend money on school trips than on swimming. It is better because the class can learn something new.
Learning how to swim is important because if one day you're on a plane and suddenly the plane lands on water you will have to learn to swim and there are no lessons on the plane about how to swim. Some people are afraid of the water I was afraid of the water but now in swimming my teacher managed to say that I was really good in swimming. I'ts important to learn how to swim because if you get chosen to do a race vs someone else and you don't know how to swim you will get last place and lose the competition. swimming is verry good for you because it ceaps you healthy and helps your muscles to get stronger. Swimming is realy fun and I can't believe how some people don't like swimming.
ReplyDeleteWhy we should go swimming
ReplyDelete• we should be able to go swimming because if ever we were in the sea and something comes what would you do if you couldn’t swim?
• If we didn’t go swimming then we wouldn’t be able to learn new tequniques or know how to swim.
• When it is a school trip to a place with lots of water (for example the beuch) you could trip and fall in to the water, then you can’t swim and get out.
We shouldn’t go swimming
• We don’t really do much work on a Tuesday because swimming takes so much time as we are second for swimming.
• Our parents send us to school to work on English, Maths and other subjects to not play in the water.
• If we know how to swim and are really good then why should we go for no reason.
The reasons why children should go swimming in school time are that all pupils could have a chance to learn how to swim despite some parents do not give permission for their children to take part in swimming lesson. However, this could cost the government a lot of money.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to this, the children could spend a tremendous time with each other and it is a good way to learn while having fun. This can encourage children to compete with each other as well as burning calories and fighting obesity. On the other hand going to swimming lessons during school time could interrupt with a child’s educational journey.
Furthermore, taking children out of school is a big responsibility which could build a mountain of pressure on the teacher. Although it could gain a child confidence of going out with no relatives and build up a child’s independence skill, for instance how to use a changing room, dry their selves etc, without parent’s supervision.
Reasons for
ReplyDeleteI think learning to swim in school is very important because swimming is very good sport and make the body strong. Swimming should be mandatory in school because if the school does not take students to swimming lessons they will be lazy and will not learn how to swim. Swimming will make students champions because they have to go through swimming challenges and competitions.
Reasons against
I think at school time is not a good idea for the sake of our health because the student's will catch a flue or cold escpeciasly in winter time.Swimming at school is a waste of time because we can use the same time to learn better thing's like maths and science.Swimming at school is affecting the student's badly because after the swimming lessons the students will be tired and unable to focus.
It is important to swim because when you are walking you can full into the river . Sometimes its fun to swim to learn swimming.Its a bit better to spend money on fantastic trips. Swimming is a good
ReplyDeletesport to do you can relax as you are floating on the back.Swimming works out all of the body's major muscles.Swimming strengthens the heart and lungs. Swimming is a good way to lose weight. this form of exercise will stimulate your entire body and could lead to an increase in metabolism over time,swimming help reduce stress.
It surprises me that the children who can't swim are leaving and as I think it is that they might think that their new school doesn't have swimming lessons because that person might think they 'll drowned or they don't like swimming or their parents might worry about them if they drowned or get sick or something or they couldn't beat anyone at swimming and they maybe got shy of being the slowest swimmer at school.
ReplyDeleteOn one hand if we had been told to swim and we can't that means we will drowned and drowned means die in the water.When we drowned it is because we can't breathe in the water. I think that the water as no air for us to breathe. The sea creatures can breathe because they have some gills to breathe in the ocean or river or sea or lake or ponds . I think that swimming is the same important like studying. If somebody was going to the beach and they didn't know how to swim and they just went to the water and then maybe the wave might pull them the deep side and then that person can't swim and I think that person would drowned.
On the other hand we should not be swimming in school because we will not study very important things and will miss to lots that we have to learn to know at our future life. If we didn't need to swim in the future that means we could just study.
It's inportant to learn to swim becase you might have to escap a jungle that you are stuk on.And you might be about to get killed on a island so you have to swim to get out.
ReplyDeleteOne the other hand it's not important to swim because it might be on a school trip and your might have to miss it so you can go swimming. Also you are going to miss a LOT off your work that might be very important.
On one hand I think that kids have to learn how to swim, the faster you practice the quicker you will be able to swim, so you can do other stuff. But on the other hand I think that they should of practiced more before they leave the school, then they could be better more you practiced and practice the better you will be or you could be the best so people should get better and better and you could be the greatest you could be the best then you will try versing people and you might win like other sport for example football more you train the better you will get and when you verse other people you might score so I think people should get started and go practicing and they will be the best.
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SO START GET SWIMING!!!!!
As I see it we have to swim because you might save life. Swimming is a really fun lesson because you could do front stroke and back stroke and mushroom float.On one hand people might do not know how to swim. It surprises me that the a ASA says that we have to do swimming in primary time. It surprises me that if you swim in younger time and grow older you could go the Olympics. The Olympics do a lot of practice to go to the matches. A really sad think is that when you have a verruca and you still swim with bare foot it could either spread on others. If you have a verruca and you still swim without bare foot that is all right and he should of wear swim sock so others won't get them to.
ReplyDeleteFrom my view i like how ASA make us swim because if your going to the ocean on cruise and if you fall and drown its bad luck. ASA teach us to swim and it would be part of our hour a day exercise. I think that swimming can be a big opportunity for kids to solve major problems in there life ahead of them. Swimming can save your life and you can save others in accident and you will be more healthy with this in your life. Once we get older our bodies will break so spending time now swimming can carry on longer.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand you could sprain your leg or get hurt.
Thursday 22 November 2016
ReplyDeleteAll about swimming:
I think swimming is important because it can help you develop and lean some more stuff about it.It is also good exercise for you to get strong and grow up and as you are growing you develop more and more and you start to learn new stuff that you didn't know.It is really use full to and when you are older and gooder then you don't have to have swimming lessons any more.Some people,Ectually get strong and faster from all of the exercise you have done.
I love going swimming but some times i do chat and talk a lot and me and my friends all ways talk in the coach or any wre else but not at our homes or houses,But just to remind you that swimming is a good sport for you to develop and get excises from all its energy.
Yuvika:
ReplyDeletestar: you have done a lot of paragraphs and words and that is great
and you have used lots of phrases and vocoblary and it was great.
wish: you can in prove by adding some more phrases and more detail too to your story of swimming.
I think all primary school students want to learn swimming because in water they can save lives.
ReplyDeleteSwimming is a good exercise to do.
Swimming is fun to learn.
Some other school might think that swimming is a bad idea to do.
They might think , swimming is hard to do, so people don’t want to do it.
It is a bad idea to do because they loose their studying time in school due to swimming.