Our current class story is The Firework Maker’s Daughter. In this story, Our main character Lila is disappointed when her father crushes her dreams of following in his footsteps. In order to really understand her emotions, class 7 became Lila, leaving her father a voicemail telling him exactly how Read more…
In English, we have been focusing on poetry. Our main text has been ‘The Sound Collector’ about a stranger who came along and stole all the sounds we are so used to hearing. Class 7 were tasked with thinking about what would happen if the Sound Collector came to school. Read more…
To really get involved in our plants topic in science, we got hands on! We looked at a cross−section of a pepper by cutting it in half and then drew it, looking carefully at the details and the seeds. We then round it out by tasting a range of coloured Read more…
Class 7 made a fantastic effort on Friday with their special writing. The focus was story writing and considering a sequel to our class book ‘Gladiator Boy’. The children got their heads down, focused and produced some great work!
Over the last couple of months, we have been looking at the Romans in both English and linked learning. The information that we have learned combined with our new text type knowledge allowed us to get stuck into a big piece of writing. Here are some picture of us writing our Read more…
This week, we moved on from friction to take a closer look at magnets. We discussed what magnets do and discovered how they work by having a little play around with them. This showed us that they can attract as well as repel other magnets. This led us into an Read more…
With our Romans topic well underway, we kicked off this weeks lesson with a quick mind map overview of what we know so far. Our massive sheets started off bare but when the timer was up they were overflowing with newly learnt information. Have a look for yourself!
Time for an investigation! our current science topic is forces and magnets and this week our focus was on friction. We wanted to see evidence of how friction works against a certain force so we conducted an investigation. We discussed fair testing and agreed on a hypothesis. We then set Read more…
Today in class 7, we began to look at 2 digit numbers divided by a 1 digit number. This required us to bring the dienes back out and get hands on. This allows us to see the division first hand and take practical approach. have a look at how we Read more…