Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Persuasive writing

Rm 11 have been doing some persuasive writing. We had to chose a subject on what we wanted to write about. Mine was, Should school start later in the morning? Here is my writing



Persuasive writing         

Planning
  • No because your brain is fresh and ready to go in the morning after a good night        sleep
  • No because it is getting us used to waking up early and used to a routine  
  • No because adults have to wake up early in the morning and get to work and on the way they would probably drop their kids off at school
  • Parents don’t get time to laze around in the morning and wait round for there time to head off to work they go to work come home and then they get to relax  


Should schools start later in the morning?

I think that schools shouldn't start later than they already are.

Schools times should stay the way they are. For example my school opens at 8:15am  and actually starts at 8:45am and then finishes at 3:00pm. If we changed the time from 8:45 well it just won't work out, if it started at maybe 11:15 then it's too late in the day and it will have to end later in the day like when it’s dark at night.

If say they did change the time back a couple of hours yes to some people it would make the day feel shorter but to others like me whose body clock wakes me up, the day would feel super long and tiring. Because if you think about if say school starts at 11:15 it will probably end around 5 or 6 at night which would mean it would be dark and cold especially in winter. If the kids were only in Primary there parents would need to come pick the kids up because it would be getting dark and little 7 year olds can't walk home by themselves at night. Once they are home they would eat dinner and then go to bed and then wake up a couple of hours later and do it all a gain.

When you wake up in the morning your brain is fresh and ready to go to start a school day. Your up and going and you have a good breakfast then you get to school and have maths and writing in the morning. The reason why the school has maths and writing in the first block is because you brain is fresh and ready to learn; most of the time anyway. Where as is the school started later on in the day you brain would be ready but not as fresh as it was when you first woke up.

The reason why the I think the time is as it is, is because it works with the parents in the morning because they have to go to work. They wake up the kids get them already for school and then, get themselves ready for work. I guess it just works because then they drop the kids at school and then head to work. If the kids are old enough to walk home from school and get into the house then the parents can come home from work a bit later because they know the kids will be safe. But if they aren't old enough the parents have to come and pick them up.

The kids would get themselves used to a routine waking up early and get ready for school, wear as is they went to school later they would laze around the house and watch TV until it is time for school. They would have time to stuff around and do things but realistically if the school times did go back and start later I guess there is an up to it as well. The upside would be that they could study before school and then if they have an exam they are ready for it. But I still think that the time should stay as the time is.

My opinion would be keep the way the time is for many reason because it's the way it has been for so long and I don’t think that the time should be changed to later. So If someone asked me if they think the time should go back to being later I would give them a big fat

NO! 

Food Tech, Mama Mia Pizza

My Virtual Pizza
For our first term of tech we had food tech and our big goal at the end of the term was the Mama Mia Pizza. We got given a booklet and had to write down our concepts and ideas. We also had to write down a lot of other things like the flavour and texture that we wanted and what ingredients we needed to bing to make the pizza. My cooking partner was Isabella and we made our Mama Mia Pizza in the shape of a microphone but it didn't really turn out in the shape of a microphone. It ended up more like a big floppy ice cream but it tasted really great. On our pizza we had pineapple, cheese, BBQ sauce, tomato, capsicum and ham. The pineapple added a fruity tangy taste to the meatiness from the BBQ sauce. Here are some pictures of use making the pizza. We made the pizza base out of scone dough and then had to roll it out and make it into the shape that we wanted .
Our Mama Mia Pizza