Although it was a little wet at times, we had an absolutely fantastic day on Friday. A big well done and thank you to everyone involved. It was a celebration not only of sporting talents, but of teamwork too.

This week, we began our music unit on ukuleles! Although our fingers were a bit sore from all the string work, we managed to learn three new chords and played along to ‘Ho Hey’ by The Lumineers.

We have also began listening to different musical works by Tom Misch. We have really enjoyed ‘South of the River’ this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEJk2FJJ18c

This week, we explored Billy Collin’s poem ‘Snow Day’. As an introduction, we had a go at arranging different lines from the poem. Each group managed to create a slightly different piece which we could draw meaning from. We discovered how powerful the ordering of phrases can be in altering the message and focus of a poem.

A special shout out to Majd and Noah for being our reflective Learners of the Week for their fantastic questions and challenge completion in Maths!

Our final week of half term was certainly adventurous! It began with opportunity for reflection on all the staff that have helped us with our SATs. Each of us wrote a thank you card to the various staff members that have helped us this year with our learning. Some students wrote multiple cards to staff ranging from our fantastic dinner ladies to our amazing pastoral support team.

For both groups, residential was a fantastic range of puzzles, games and activities. The Via Farrata, Gorge walking and caving certainly had us challenging ourselves!

This week, we got dancing and singing amidst our final revision in the lead up to SATs. We participated in the ‘Big Sing’ where students from all year groups gathered around a piano on the playground to sing together. On Thursday, we all dressed in green and some even sprayed their hair!

On Friday, we finished our final revision, prepared our classroom and made sure there were lots of jokes being shared!

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend in the sun. I will leave you with our favourite joke from today…

This week our Recognition Board focused on ‘Noticing’. In Writing, we noticed persuasive features within our model text and in Maths we continued to notice different patterns across a variety of triangles.

On Thursday, we constructed an “appreciation web” where students shared something they appreciated about each member of the class. It was lovely to hear the range of reasons why they value and support each other.

We also began and completed our Mary Anning studies in Science where we presented key facts about her life and achievements. A special shout out to Noah and Freya for their inventive use of colour…

This week we got creative! For the beginning of our new module on ‘Fashion’ students attempted to create different outfits on miniature mannequins. At the end of the lesson, certain students decided to show off their designs! A special shout out this week to our Learners of the Week – Scarlett and Lio! Well done!

This week, we began our exciting new Mayan history unit; completed and performed our suspense creative writing; began our area work on parallelograms and triangles, and continued to refine our reading comprehension answers. Students wrote fantastic responses to a question focusing on Shakespeare’s language choices in a Macbeth extract – zooming in on new key vocabulary. A special shout out this week has to go to Tom P for producing a lengthy and interesting hot write and gaining Learner of the Week. Special shout outs also for Benjamin for gaining Learner of the Week for helping our new student to feel so welcome!

Happy birthday to Harleen today!
I hope you all have a fantastic weekend,

Miss Davies

This week, we had our final of three visits to Allerton High School. We continued our discussion on lab safety and then created ‘rockets’ using the gas produced by the reaction between Vitamin C and water.

Later in the week, the majority of our class participated in the colour run. What a special day to remember!

I hope you all have a fantastic break over the holiday. All the best, Miss Davies

This week in Maths, we carried out a practical lesson where we compared the capacity of different containers.

After collecting data on our whiteboards, we had a go at collating the data on a bar chart – there was some fantastic work produced after our discussions on different axis and how we would scale our graphs.

This week for World Poetry Day, students wrote and performed their poems entitled ‘Kingdom of Justice’. We then created paper birds on Friday on which we wrote our poems. At the end of the day, we created a class ‘sculpture’ using these birds – making links back to our work on ‘What is Art?’