Theatre Sports.

These 5 weeks I have been doing Theatre Sports, We have been playing games like Whoosh!, Shapes, refection, freeze frame and more. It wasn’t what I expected because one of the only reason I picked this activity is because I thought it was going to be plays and acting etc.

The only thing I really enjoyed was the games (Mosty Whoosh). But the real challenge was to try to not be unconformable.

But overall the teacher was nice and the other children.

I would do this again though because I probably didn’t give this much of a shot.

Factors.

Factors are numbers that are multiplied with each other to make a specific answer.

Here is an example: 10 so 2 x 5 = 10 so 2,5 and 1 x 10 = 10 1,10.

So 1,2,5,10 are the factors of 10.

Mental Health speech.

This month I have been writing a speech about Mental health awareness in schools.

I have researched a lot and I have been working really hard.

Here is my speech:

 

The Importance of Mental health.

Schools need to take more action on poor mental health.

Introduction.

In simple terms mental health is our emotional, psychological and social well being, meaning it affects how we feel, act, and make everyday choices and decisions and how we handle stress.

Social media. 

Our mental health is different to how it was in the past generations. You might be wondering how and why it is; but the explanation is quite simple.

One of the main differences between then and now is social media. It was proven that too much use of social media can increase loneliness, lower self-esteem, and can it cause depression. This is a reason why some countries have banned some social media platforms. But teacher and staff members probably didn’t experience it when they were kids. All the stuff I mentioned before can happen because of cyber bullying, or because kids/teens can compare their bodies or faces to influencers they see on social media. The reason they might compare themselves is because influences are like the perfect images and role models of how we should look. But the reality is that influences are mostly fake. We only get to see the good part, not the true reality. But this ties into disorders. 50 studies from 17 countries showed that social media leads to body image concerns, eating disorders and bad mental health. We can’t let this happen to our generation of children.    

Bullying. 

Bullying is one of the worst ways to damage your mental health. Bullying is how people can develop disorders, ptsd, depression and more. Bullying can even make people think suicidal thoughts or make people self harm. Bullying can be physical abuse or verbal abuse, that can damage mental health. Another form of bullying that I had mentioned before is cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is a way to harass people online without showing their identity.

Cyber bullying can be even more hurtful than offline bullying in some cases. We need to make sure our kids are safe.

Suicide and self harm.

Self harm and suicidal thoughts or actions are really serious and should not be joked about. 

When mental health is at its worse is when people mostly have suicidal thoughts and self harm.

E.g Cutting yourself, burning yourself, punching yourself etc. At this time (8th of April 2024) 289,160 people killed themselves this year. We don’t want our kids doing this, here are some ways we can help: Making sure there are people to talk to like therapists, youth workers, counselors etc.

Conclusion. 

In conclusion, social media and bullying are bad for mental health.

No kid should ever have to go through this so we should offer help to kids even if they don’t want it or need it.

 

Cyber smart collage.

For cyber smart we got reminded how to screen shot and we made a collage showing who we are with screen shots.

If you want a whole screen screen shot on a chrome book press control and the show windows button at the same time.

If you want a part of the screen screen shot. Then press the control shift and the show windows button all at the same time.

Work this week.

This week in literacy I have been writing a speech about mental health awareness. With this speech it is my goal to persuasive people into talking more action around mental health. Luckily Sharon has taught us how to make our pieces of writing persuasive like adding facts and statistics to our writing, This speech will probably be done by next week.

That was my literacy work this week.

 

Persuasive Writing.

Reasons why more people should adopt cats. (Pros/Cons & Emotive language) .

Here is why you should get a cat.

Firstly cats are emotional support animals which is amazing.

Secondly 480M out of 700M cats are strays and that’s more than half of the cats population. Plus you have an opportunity to help an abused or tortured cat get into their forever home.

Another reason why you should get a cat is because cats are independent and you don’t have to walk them and pick up their feces etc. But overall even though they cost money cats can make you feel less lonely and more happy.

How to Put up a tent.

How to put up a tent: 

By Emma & George.

Find a dry spot for your tent to be put up.

Lay the tent out on the ground.

Then grab 4 pegs and get the 4 corners of the tent and hammer them down.

Now connect the poles together.

Match the poles to the tent and attach the tent to the poles using the clip.

Then put the rain fly over the tent and peg them down with 4 pegs.

If it is a windy day grab your guide ropes.

And peg them down using the side holes on your tent.