How are you feeling?

Over the past few weeks Upper Primary pupils have been busy learning through their IPC topic ‘Express Yourself’. Starting with the basic emotions we then discussed in more detail the wide range of emotions people make experience in society nowadays. Viewing and analysing television advertisements was a great starting point for exposing the main tricks which are used to influence the audience. Identifying these tricks helped us to understand why and how we feel a certain way when we watch certain ads. Afterwards we decided to create our own appealing adverts to persuade people to purchase items such as cars, sneakers, teddy bears or to have a ride on a roller coaster! We tried to include the tricks we had discovered by viewing other advertisements! The pupils worked together in pairs and at the end the pupils presented their work to each other.

From human feelings we moved to animals and their emotions. A quick research of the article titled ‘Do animals have feelings?’ helped us understand why dogs sometimes react in a similar way to people (using different body language!) and what goats do to make them happy!

We all definitely felt excited during the last week of school before the autumn holidays! The week was partly dedicated to creating Halloween decorations such as spiders, ghosts and pumpkins! We also integrated literacy into Halloween by writing some special acrostic spooky poems!

Before our Halloween party on Wednesday, we enjoyed a special scary performance called ‘Midnight Nightmare’ by a group from Upper Primary. Then we had our Halloween parade and party!! Lots of scary and silly fun!  

To end the busy week, we watched the movie called ‘Inside Out’ which was a fitting closure for our IPC topic about emotions! Have a lovely autumn break everyone!