During this term in Literacy, we have looked at two different units. First we created a Horror Narrative (scary enough to scare your Grandma)! We then created a Non-Chronological Report on sea creatures of our choice. We really impressed Miss Culshaw with showing amazing resilience and independence!
In out first piece we used skills ambitious vocabulary, relative clauses and experimented with 'show not tell' to create suspense! It was safe to say there was lots of petrifying stories.
In our second piece we showed lots of brilliant skills like using subject specific vocabulary and using semi colons and colons! We created some very informative non-chronical reports and we are looking forward to publishing them after half term.
In LIRA we have been exploring a number of different fiction texts. We looked at 'There is a boy in the girl's bathroom' by Louis Sacher. We then moved onto 'The Graveyard Book' by Neil Gaiman. Finally finishing on 'Cogheart' by Peter Bunzel. We enjoyed reading the texts and completed different activities on them!
In maths we started our learning off with further developing our understanding and accuracy when using written methods for all four operations.
Then we moved onto to fractions, decimals and percentages where we learnt about comparing fractions and adding/subtracting fractions with different denominators.
Throughout this half term we have showed the school values of being resilient and independent when improving our arithmetic scores!
Throughout this half term we have also applied our skills to a number of different real-life contexts and we have challenged the pupils to tackle problem solving and reasoning tasks.
This half term we have had a Geography focus and we have looked at 'Frozen Worlds'.
First of us all to hook us into our learning we had an amazing VR experience which enabled us to journey into the Arctic Circle. It allowed us to see the environment for ourselves.
We then looked at the human and physical features of the Arctic Circle and Antartica. We compared our own town of Barnsley to the island of Svalbard (just of the coast of Norway.
We then went onto exploring why the climate in the Arctic regions is so much colder then anywhere else in the world. We then researched all about the Polar Oceans and compared these to other oceans across the world. Finally we looked at the human impact that we are having on the Arctic Circle.
As our final outcome we created using our ICT skills a digital presentation of how humans are affecting polar regions.
Well done to everyone this half term who has won a celebration certificate for showing the school values.
Well done to those children who achieved 50 Mapplewell Points this term! Keep up the brilliant work!
Class 9 have amazed Miss Culshaw with their attitude to their TT Rockstars, with at least one child from Class 9 winning a certificate every week. Well done!
Thank you to everyone completing the homework set on Seesaw!
Remember homework and spellings are set on Seesaw every week and children will be given a week to complete the homework, before new pieces are set.
It has been amazing to see so many children reading and earning their tokens. The expectation for reading is at least 4 times a week and reading records to be handed on every Friday.
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