Literacy and English

Alfie Y – In Writing, we were making a brochure for a place and you say what wildlife, food and drink, activities and traditions were at your holiday.

Alfie B – On Wednesday, Mrs Doyle came in and we finished making our chatter boxes about Alice in Wonderland.

Numeracy and Mathematics 

John – In Maths, The Number Ninjas have been learning how to convert and add length between metres and centimetres. For example 8m 12cm can be added with another measurement. I solved it in a chimney calculation.

Mehr – In Maths, The Mathletes were learning 3-digit division with the 6 and 7 times tables.

Health and Wellbeing 

Ruby – In HWB, we were learning how to help people if they were in an accident. I was with Alfie Y, Kate, Rayan and Eva L and our situation involved 2 children being stuck on a garage roof and they couldn’t get down. We had to phone the fire brigade to help them down and ensure their injuries were not bad.

PE 

Harry Fo – In PE, we went to Eastwood High School and we did different sports in our different groups. My groups did rugby.

Outdoor Learning 

Callum – In Outdoor Learning, we were making bird feeder with oranges, skewers, bird seed and string. It was really fun!

Ismail – After we made the bird feeders we tried to find 26 items from A-Z that were natural.

Hishaam – On Thursday Miss Estlick let us go outside to play in the snow and it was really fun!

Design and Technology

Gabby – In Design and Technology, I am working with Aritri and Kate to come up with a product to help someone in our local community. We chose elderly people and our product is the ‘mini fridge bed’ and it helps elderly people with sore backs to get food.

Literacy and English 

Varda – In Writing, we were writing a persuasive letter to Fawlty Towers Hotel because they wasted so much water and we had to persuade them not to using persuasive techniques such as rhetorical questions, powerful word choice, similes and metaphors and many more.

Numeracy and Mathematics

Zunairah – In Maths, The Mathletes were learning about 3-digit multiplication without carrying.

Harry Fo – In Maths, The Number Ninjas were learning about length. Later on in the week we converted measurements with Mr Allen.

Kate – In Maths, The Cool Calculators were learning about directions and we had to give each other directions on how to get around the map that we had made and we had to use N, S, E and W.

Science

Alfie Y – In Science, we were researching on the Chromebooks about how to conserve water and we made notes.

Expressive Arts

Alfie B – In Art we were creating love heart paintings as it was Valentines Day on Monday and we focused on the artist Jim Dine. We used different colours.

PE 

Mehr – In PE, we went to Eastwood High School and we had to get in to groups and every group was learning a different sporting activity. My group was learning how to play rugby.

Outdoor Learning

Ruby – In Outdoor Learning, we learned how to use a compass. To know we are going in the right direction the red arrow has to be in between the 2 green lines. We then came in and had to make a poster on how to use a compass.

Literacy and English 

Mehr – In Literacy, we were doing a group comprehension about Alice in Wonderland and we had to make inferences and compare and discuss what was the best answer.

Aritri – In Writing, we were making adverts about our own products. We had to include the price, the product and persuasive language such as repetition, rhetorical questions and exaggeration.

Numeracy and Mathematics 

Omar – In Numeracy, The Mathletes have been learning about rounding to the nearest 10 and 100. If it was rounding to the nearest 10 from 22 it would be 20.

Archie – In Numeracy, The Number Ninjas have been learning about BODMAS.

Abu-Huraira – In Numeracy, The Cool Calculators about the directions: North, East, South and West.

Health and Wellbeing

Ruby – In Health and Wellbeing we were learning about kindness and friendship and showing kind actions. We did a drama activity where we had a scenario to act out. Our scene was, “if you were getting poked by another pupil in class what would you do?” Then we had to discuss how to deal with the situations.

PE 

Finlay – In PE, we were doing badminton and we were doing mini matches with 4 people. The people that one did rallys or played a cone game.

IDL 

In IDL, we were learning about plastic waste and usage. We had to find different types of information around the room and select key points to include in our fact file.

Science 

Kate – In Science we have been learning about the water cycle and made a water cycle puzzle in groups. At the end we added all the pieces together.

French

Rayan – In French we did a French quiz for Modern Languages week – thank you Mr McMillan!