Class 8 learning journey Spring 2 2022/2023

LIRA

Firstly, we explored the book 'The Iron Man' by Ted Hughes. We focused on the vocabulary used in the text and we did a lot of work on author intent.

Next, we explored the story of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter' by Philip Pullman. We explored the relationships between the different characters and how the author has chosen to present these characters.

Maths

In maths this half term we have been learning all about telling the time. We focussed on converting days, months, weeks and years and we also learnt how to convert between digital and analogue time. We have been expanding our knowledge on the use of statistics and data and we have also been learning about measure.

we have continued to work on our arithmetic skills and have worked really hard to improve our test scores. We have been working hard on improving our sound check scores on TTRockstars.

Topic

Our focus for this half term has been art where we have been learning about painting landscapes.

Throughout, we have explored artwork from Van Gogh and David Hockney. We have focussed on a variety of artistic skills such as:

• The use of tints, tones and shades
• how primary and secondary colours mix to make tertiary colours
• creating texture using different paint brushes
• how to develop a final piece of artwork based on an artists work

Our final piece for this topic was a landscape painting inspired by Van Gogh and David Hockney.

Science

In science, we have been learning all about electricity!

We explored how electricity is formed, the difference between alternating and direct currents, conductors and insulators, the components of electrical circuits, and why we need switches.

R.S.H.E

This half term, we have been further exploring respect and close, positive relationships.

• As part of this, we looked into:
• The features of a caring relationship
• How to identify healthy relationships
• What makes people unique
• How to show respect for peoples similarities and differences
• How to make others feel included and supported

Things to Celebrate

Easter performance

Class 6 loved practicing and performing our Easter performance 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Camelot' for everyone. We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did!

World book day

We enjoyed celebrating World Book Day by dressing up as our favourite book characters!

Athlete visit

We had fun exercising and listening to Sean Gaffney's story as a part of this years athlete visit.

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