This week is National Maths Week and today we thought about how we apply our maths skills outside school. THe list of things we came up with included: shopping cooking/baking telling the time – knowing what time the bus is coming, what time you need to leave for school, when Read more…
This half term we are studying the painting ‘The Scream’ by Edvard Munch. This is a very famous piece of expressionist artwork that was painted in 1893. We started by completing an analysis of the painting, and saying how we felt about it. We then practised several skills with oil Read more…
Today we carried out the first experiment of our ‘Working Scientifically’ topic. Our question is, “How do different liquids affect our teeth?” In order to answer our question, we planned an experiment using eggs to represent our teeth because teeth are made of calcium carbonate which is what eggshells are Read more…
Following on from our work in Science about the environment, we made bird feeders today. We then took them home to hang in our gardens to ensure the birds have enough food over winter.
This week in Computing we have begun to learn about Word processing. We used Microsoft Word and explored changing the fonts, sizes and colours of text as well as putting emphasis on words using bold, italic and underlining.
This week, class 9 finished their DT learning journey by making the pizzas we designed. We had to think carefully about hygiene and how to use kitchen equipment correctly and safely. Once our pizzas were cooked, we got to eat them and the final verdict from everyone was DE-LI-CIOUS!
Today, we participated in the BBC Live Lesson for National Poetry Day. We worked alongside the Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho, to use our senses to write an acrostic poem about nature , as well as look at similes, metaphors and performance techniques.
Today, Class 9 began their new topic of Anglo Saxons & Scots by studying a variety of artifacts discovered at Sutton Hoo. We then followed this up with trying on some replica Anglo-Saxon armour and then even holding some replica weapons.
In our Computing lessons this week, we have started looking at computational thinking and what that means. Computational thinking is a way to simplify problems to make them easier to solve. It is split into four different strands: Decomposition Abstraction Pattern Recognition Algorithm Design Today, we completed a carousel of Read more…
Class 9 had their 2nd Hockey lesson this week. They practised holding the hockey stick accurately flipping it so the flat side was always in contact with the ball, and then dribbling the ball around different courses.