Month: April 2024

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

Finally, some sunny weather has arrived! I would like to thank everyone for supporting the pupils with creating their Solo-Talks, I found them so interesting! Some of our pupils have also had a busy week attending their committees.

Literacy and English

This week we all finished our Solo-Talks and Mr Atkinson gave us some feedback about how we presented. Below are some photos of us in action!

Our Writing lesson was so much fun this week! Mr Atkinson said that we could bring in any item from home to create a persuasive description for. We were encouraged to use WOW words and our new persuasive phrases to convince our audience to purchase the items.

To support with our writing, we looked at different persuasive texts and answered comprehension questions based on them.

We have just started a new series of lessons on philosophy to help us develop our talking and listening skills.

Numeracy and Maths

In Maths some of us have been converting ml and l and using this knowledge to help solve adding and subtracting calculations. We also been working on how to find the missing angle in complementary and supplementary angles and using our understanding to help write directions involving maps. We are also getting quicker with determining the rules for function machines and we have begun to use concrete materials to help with exchanging in 3-digit calculations.

Health and Wellbeing

In our tennis lessons we have been developing our backhand shots by hitting balls over the net to our partners and we have been serving into our target hoops to help improve our aim.

We spent time exploring friendship by discussing the desirable qualities we want in friends, how to maintain a friendship and how we should interact safely online with friends.

RME

During our RME lesson we discussed the differences between inspirational people and Saints. Some of us shared what the equivalent of a Saint is in their religion and then we used the Chromebooks to create a slide on someone who is a role model in our lives. We made sure that if we used a celebrity or family member that we carefully thought about how they inspire us to do good deeds.

Science

With Mrs Scoular we have started learning about which rocks are natural or human made.

 

 

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

Welcome back to our blog, I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday! It has been a busy start to the new term with the pupils participating in Culture week and Eid festival.

Literacy and English

We have now started a new writing series focusing on persuasive writing. We discussed how we are persuaded to do things in our lives and then we looked at how WOW words and descriptive language can be used to make something appealing. We also learned how to use exclamation marks to emphasis key points. With this new knowledge we created adverts to some of our favourite locations and illustrated them.

In our comprehension lesson we explored different points of views in texts. We had to carefully look at the wording in sentences to help us understand the differing opinions.

Numeracy and Maths

We have been learning how to identify different angles and we also discussed how to round to the nearest 10 and 100 which led to us debating the accuracy of using rounding in calculations to reach an answer.

Outdoor Learning

We went back to where we had placed our bird feeders and discovered they had all been eaten!

Culture Week Activities

On Monday Uksa visited our class and taught us how to paint a sunset background using watercolours. Afterwards, we created mosques out of black paper which we stuck onto the sunset background.

We had a great time with Mrs Scoular listening to the story Under the Hijab and taking part in the Blooket quiz!

We also researched and created information posters about how eating utensils are used differently in some cultures.

Some of us got Henna and we used this as inspiration to create our very own patterns and designs on sketches and traces of our hands.

On Friday we had an amazing time making Vegetable Samosa and Mango Lassi with help from parents.