Persuasive Writing

For our writing in Term 1 and the start of Term 2 we have been doing Persuasive Writing. One of the most popular topics were should we put a tax on junk food? First we read some other peoples persuasive writing. Their topics were child slavery and saving the whales! Then we got to plan our own. When we were planning we had to choose a topic to get us started. Once we had chose our topics we had to research facts on the Internet to get us started. Here is my finished piece of writing...

How many people each day do you pass that are either overweight, fat or obese? What is causing these problems? I have one answer...  fatty, unhealthy junk food.

Should we put a tax on fatty, unhealthy junk foods? I strongly think we should. I believe this because 60% of people in the world are overweight. If we put a tax on the unhealthy foods that our bodies don't need, it would definitely reduce obesity issues.

My second reason is that if we put a tax on unhealthy food people would stop buying them. I personally think that we eat lots of fatty food because it is so cheap. If it was more expensive people would eat out less often and make more of an effort to make their own dinner at home without all the preservatives. Not only would this cut down on the risk of heart diseases and strokes it would also save money.

My third reason is that people are eating twice the amount of salt and sugar our bodies need. This is why there is now two types of diabetes. One is caused by too much sugar and the other you were born with. Just think about all the people with sugar diabetes. If we put a tax on junk food less people would have diabetes. 

My fourth reason is that if we put a tax on junk food people would stop buying them because they can't afford them. We should put 15% tax on the fatty foods and take 15% tax off fruit and vegetables. Our bodies need healthy food and people wouldn't want to buy the unhealthy food.

That is why I believe we should put a tax on fatty, unhealthy junk food. My first reason is that so many people in the world are overweight it's not funny. My second reason is that we only buy it because it is so cheap if a tax was put on then people would stop eating out and and make their own meals at home. My third reason is that people are getting heart diseases and strokes this needs to stop! My last reason is that if we put a tax on junk food we could take it off the healthy food our bodies need.  

So what do you think? Should we put a tax on junk food?

 By Omea Hall

writing group

Yay i'm in the new writing group and we are doing really fun things like making tubes and making them so awesome. Then we will put out most loved things in them and shear with 12 people in our writing group. from Jackson

Persuasive Writing

Room 9 have been doing persuasive writing. We have been doing it on subjects like why smoking should be banned and why school uniform should be banned.

Why smoking should be banned?

Do like the smell of smoke? More and more people are smoking every day this has to stop!

I believe that smoking should be banned I believe this because it is polluting the air with smoke and killing hundreds of people and causing lung disease.

Firstly, I believe that smoking should be banned because 1/3 of people in the world are wasting their money on smokes. They are also slowly killing them selves as well. Instead of spending your money on cigarettes they could buy something like for example a house, car, clothes and food the tings that you need, but instead the people that smoke spend their money on cigarettes. If you buy one packet of cigarettes it will cost you about 8395 dollars a year.

Secondly smoking doesn’t just affect one person. It can affect everybody around the person that is smoking. So it is still dangerous being around a person that is smoking. Smoking is dangerous because it can rot your lungs and cause lung cancer it can also rot your teethe.

Finally I think that smoking should be banned because it will stop all the littering of cigarette butts and make the environment more clean and healthy.

By Isaac Todd

For the last few months Winton School has been waiting for there brand new basketball court, now it is ready and everyone has been playing on it. Kids from the ages 7 and up have enjoyed having a basket ball court here, it's good for basketball coaches and for practices for the year 7 and 8 teams, some people still use the other basketball hoops on the tennis court.
By Brenna Jardine

Our brand new basketball court

Spanish

Hola senora, senor and senorita! Over last few weeks we have been learning a little bit of Spanish. So far we have learnt...

• The Spanish alphabet and the pronunciation of the alphabet
• Some of the Spanish cognates
• Where in the world they speak Spanish
• How they greet each other 

 These are only a few of what we are hoping to achieve by the end of this topic. Over the last few weeks we have been creating a Spanish alphabet frieze. Each person in our class got  a letter of the alphabet and in the frieze they had to include the cognate of that letter, the pronunciation of that letter and the Spanish letter itself. Here are some of the finished letters...

 


By Aleigha and Omea

Falling Back Self-Portraits

This week while the Year 7 students were at Technology the Year 6 students got to do some creative Art. The art is called falling back. Firstly we had to look at examples of the type of art on the internet. Secondly we had to trace our feet and hands onto a large piece of paper. We had to choose what we would be falling back into. Some students chose things like falling back into a drain, a sharks mouth, slime and jelly. We used pastels to colour our art .Here are some photos of the students art work.

Falling back into space by Ben McMaster

                 

                  Falling back into a sharks mouth by Jackson Stuart

Falling back into a mud pit by Tuti Wilson

Falling back into a sink by Caleb Keepin

Falling back into the sea by Taryn Cairns

Falling back into space inside a sharks mouth by Lily Just

Falling back into slime by Omea 

By Jackson and Lily

You're An Egg!!!

At Winton School we had 'You're An Egg Day'. We had to paint our face as an Easter Egg or an Easter bunny. We are doing it for easter. People got photos taken by teachers to put up on the big screen TV. Here are some photos of students in our class.

Abbey

Lily

Ben

By Lily and Abbey