Salam, my name is Zahra. I am a year 8 student at Panmure Bridge School, this is my last year. I am in a great classroom and I have great teachers. I really enjoy being at PBS because it helps me improve my learning a lot and help other students like me. I love spending time with my family and making them proud. My hobbies are math, cooking , baking and art.
My goal for 2026 is to get into a good college and make my parents proud.
Today’s Summer Learning Journey project required us to select an octopus, color it online, or print it out with markers and coloring pencils. I colored this online using thecolor.com. I chose a musky octopus since I think they’re cool and it’s one of my favorite varieties. I learned that musky octopuses only survive for one to two years on the deep sea floor and that each one has three hearts and nine brains. I had a great time working on this project because octopi are my favorite marine animal.
This week for this activity, we were required to create a spider web using paper and scissors as our main materials. We began by watching a video article called “Spider Webs: Spider Artists at Work,” which explained and demonstrated how spiders carefully design and build their webs. After watching the video, we continued by researching more information about the web-making process, learning how spiders produce silk and use specific patterns and techniques to construct strong, detailed webs for survival.
For this activity, We first created another copy of a different DLO required for us, which we are supposed to answer facts about Giant centipedes. We continued by researching more information about them, A fun fact I found interesting is that a centipede is a kind of bug with lots of legs. It moves around and looks a little scary. That’s an interesting fact about them. I really enjoyed doing this activity because I got to learn a lot about Giant centipedes and because they’re unusual animals. Learning about them can be exciting because they have strange habits, quick movements, and ways of catching prey that are pretty fascinating.
For this activity, we first watch a video explaining about giant centipedes, then created a copy of this DLO required for us, which we are supposed to answer a few math questions about Giant centipedes. We continued by researching more information about them, learning how it is known for the world’s largest, reaching over 12 inches, known for its venomous bite, etc.
Some facts I have learned about Giant centipedes is that they have many legs, but never exactly 100.
This week for the Summer Learning Journey we created a spider web using our own imagination.
Our topic was called Art In The Web, Our first step was to learn how to draw a spider web, Our next step was to test our own spider skills and create our own spiders webs using pencil and paper. I found this task very intresting because we could play a game that relates towards the activity that we are completing.
For this activity, I created a Diorama inspiring The great fire of london Firstly, I grabbed a box from home to start the project then I grabbed a piece of paper tracing individual piece so it comes together. After I collected and cut out my pieces, I started to assemble the diarama together and added some texture. I found this interesting and fun because for some of the pieces it was kind of hard to assemble out what to do, but in the end it came all together and this is my finished result.
For my Summer Learning Journey, I created a critter/creature with its own superpower. I had to think about what special ‘powers’ I want it to have based on real animal changing. Create its features. I thought about a few ideas like controlling the elements, but I decided on superspeed and flying because it suited the animal I chose — a Capybara. I liked imagining an a small Capybara with cheetah prints gliding really fast through the sky.
This activity was really fun to do, and it’s a great choice if you like using your imagination. It was relaxing, creative, and I enjoyed every part of making my creature.
For Inquiry I have learnt about The Great Fire Of London and how it almost burnt down around 1am on a Sunday morning, September 2nd 1666, A bakery owned by Thomas Farriner (Kings baker) was burned by a spark of fire that glided out of the oven and landed on a ember (coal) which then touched the straw that was below it, and caused the bakery to burn, and soon after the fire spread fast, almost causing the Tower of London to burn down. but people who lived in those houses became homeless for a short amount of time before the king decided to build a charity place for those who had nowhere to stay until they get back on their feet.I also learnt it took 4 days to put out the fire that was caused by the bakery, because in the year 1666 they did not have Fire fighters that would put out a fire in seconds, They only had leather buckets that were passed down in a long line and hooks to pull down the burning bakery/Houses.