Last week during our writing week Class 11 built up to planning a fantasy setting description. We are really focussing on being conscientious writers (we also like to use complex vocabulary) and become more aware of how our language choice affect the reading experience. Over two days we particularly focussed Read more…
Today we wrote our own literal and inference questions based around our class read ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’. We worked collaboratively in groups, scanning through previous chapters and writing lots of different questions. Class 11 were really good at devising questions that challenged their reader to read between the lines, use Read more…
Every Wednesday we come together with Mrs Longworth Smith to sing our hearts out. Today we learnt a new song ‘Flash Light’ by Jessie J, which was quite tricky. We also added some actions to ‘Call on me’ by Bruno Mars, thank you to the Class 11 girls who have Read more…
Class 11’s art project continued yesterday, when we started to turn our line drawings of an animal into a bright, creative, abstract version using existing examples as inspiration. I think you will agree they all look fanctastic! We have 3 more copies to create using paint, collage and oil pastels. Read more…
Today Class 11 begun the first stage of an art project based around animals of the Amazon rainforest. We studied photographs and sketches of different animals and had a go at drawing them in our sketch books. A lot of perseverance was needed as sketching such detailed creatures wasn’t the Read more…
In class 11, our newest Maths booster group got to grips with developing their Arithmetic skills in our first after school session. We focussed on addition, subtraction and place value revision. Well done guys great to see you enjoying boosting your learning!
Yesterday afternoon, our PLT members McKenzie and Emma joined some other schools from our cluster for the second time to catch up and share good practise. Each school put together a poster to show what their school council members have been working on since we last met. This was a Read more…
Class 11 spent Tuesday afternoon investigating if materials dissolve. We discussed the difference between melting and dissolving and decided to look at which materials are soluble and which are insoluble. Working in teams, we set up our experiment and chose how much water we would use, what quantity of material Read more…
This morning, Class Eleven spent time looking at improper fractions and converting them to mixed fractions. We worked through various steps using counters, cubes and arrays to enable our learning. Working with others in the class helped us to discuss ideas, help each other and find out where we were Read more…
On Wednesday afternoon Class Eleven investigated different materials and if they were conductors or insulators of electricity. First of all, we took part in a quiz to test our knowledge: Then, the Class were challenged to find the best material to conduct electricity to make Read more…