Literacy
During this term in Literacy, we created two pieces of writing based on the book Holes.
In our first piece we used skills such as subordinate clauses and ambitious vocabulary to create a short narrative!
In our second piece we wrote an informal letter from Stanley to his mum all about Camp Green Lake. We used skills such as emotive language, complex sentences and parenthesis to help us add an informal tone to our writing.
Here are some of our final outcomes from this half term...
Maths
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 multiplying whole numbers by fractions and also ordering and comparing decimals. .
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.
We have also showed the school values of being resilient and independent when improving our arithmetic scores! Mrs Hayes and Mr Garrood have been really impressed!
Topic
This half term we have had a DT focus in topic with Top Gear!
First of all, to hook us into our learning we received a letter from Aston Martin asking us to create, design and evaluate an electric car. We were also lucky enough to have real Aston Martin Vantage visit our school!
We created a mood board to explore different car design features and different parts of a supercar.
Then we explored nets and joining mechanisms to help us to create the shell of our vehicle.
We learnt lots of impressive DT skills to help us manufacture our car. These included accurate measuring, cutting, sanding, joining and designing to create an aesthetically pleasing end product.
We added electric components to our cars in order to make them move.
We then evaluated our final product and decided what we would do if we were to do it again. Please see your child’s Seesaw to see their final product and give them some feedback on it.
Check out some of our amazing outcomes:
In RE we have been learning about special times and festivals. Check out some of our amazing work this half term:
Spellings
In class 10 we have had a real push this half term with spellings. We are so proud of how our pupils have been working so hard to improve their spellings and their scores on Spelling Shed.
Keep logging onto Spelling Shed and let's all continue to improve our spelling skills.
Who will be at the top of the leader board next half term?
National Story Telling Week
Thank you to everyone who took part in our National Story Telling Week. We enjoyed listening to different teachers read some of their favourite stories to us. We also enjoyed being Story Tellers too and uploaded some photos and videos of us telling different stories. We have some super Story Tellers in Class 10!
Here is an example of two of our super Story Tellers! Click on the button below to hear them in action.
Children’s Mental Health Week
Towards the end of this half term, as a school we participated in Children’s Mental Health Week. It was great to see everyone coming to school in different clothes to express themselves for.who they are as an individual.
We focused on thinking about how we can ‘grow’ together and be the best version of ourselves and support one another. One of the activities we did as part of the week was thinking about our life goals and targets. Here are a few examples.
Internet Safety Day
During internet safety day we talked about how we can keep safe online, age restrictions and their purpose and how we can make sure we are always showing the school value of respect. This included the use of the internet, video calling and taking photographs, online gaming, texting and on social media.
Celebrations
During this half we have had lots of children show the school values and were awarded certificates! Lots of other celebrations too. Make sure you continue to share your celebrations from home with us too by either bring things into school, on Twitter or on Seesaw - we love to see them!
World Book Day - Thursday 3rd March
To help us celebrate the love of books and reading you can come to school dressed as your favourite book character.
We will also be taking part in different reading activities and voting on the 'Masked Reader’. Please keep an eye out on our twitter page for more details.
Credits:
Created with images by majacvetojevic - "gerbera flower decoration flora" • TaniaVdB - "swim swimming pool swimming noodle" • Couleur - "crocus flowers yellow"