Newspaper Article

Today we were given the task of writing a newspaper article about the problem of dog mess in Pontyclun.

Firstly we had a class discussion about the problem. We also interviewed a panel of dog owners from our class and asked them some relevent questions.



The skills we used were to LISTEN TO THE CONTRIBUTION OF OTHERS

to WRITE CLEARLY AND CONFIDENTLY

to CHOOSE WORDS FOR VARIETY AND INTEREST



Our Success Criteria was to listen, respond and write accordingly.



Read Bethan Mullins' article.



POO-LLUTION STRIKES!!

This week, we have been looking at the pollution caused by dog mess in Pontyclun. Today we interviewed a pannel of dog owners from our class. They were Bethan Mullins, Morgan Rose, Charlie Summers and Matthew Pearce. 'Do you pick up your dog's poo?' we asked. The answer was YES! 'It's not hard just to get a poo bag and pick your dog's mess up,' commented Charlie. 'Some lazy people just leave it,' said Matthew. 'Some people just want a good day, they step out, then they step in dog's mess. Not a good start to the day,' was the opinion of Bethan Mullins.

Our ideas to solve this problem are to put dog bags on the dog litter bins so that if you have forgotten to take a bag on your walk there are always some available. Also, we intend to put up posters to let the dog owners of Pontyclun know that dog bags are freely available in the Library. Whenever you are short of dog bags, you can just pop in and grab a batch to re-stock.

There is another problem in Pontyclun. The village does not have enough dog litter bins to encourage people to pick up their dog's mess. We plan to write to the council about this.

Here are some questions for you to think about if you are a dog owner:

Do you bag your dog's mess?

Where do you put your dog's mess?

If you don't pick up your mess have you thought about the serious consequences of illness to children and a heavy fine if you are caught?

Think about these issues and try to use the bins and the bags provided.

Thank you, Bethan Mullins.