Tricky Tasks

• We continued to work really hard on our Christmas raps, with were filmed today. We had to create 3 verses plus a chorus and research a good beat to rap to. We demonstrated ambition, determination, cooperation and collaboration skills during this task. We are very proud of the results and can’t wait for our parents to see them.
• In literacy we have been working on up-levelling our sentences but adding in adjectives, fronted adverbials and conjunctions. This led on to a free writing task where we used a picture as a stimulus and write a story around it. Our writing has definitely improved by using the up-levelling techniques.

Learning Highlights

• In maths we were using weights to learn how to read scales with accuracy. We had to estimate the weight first then use a digital and analogue scale to check, then convert from grams to kilograms up to 2 decimal places.
• We have been enjoying using Sumdog online this week. The website has given us full access for a while and we were able to practice spelling and grammar on top of the usual maths. It has been so much fun and we are learning lots through games and challenges. Miss Halliday has set us a challenge to earn 99,999,99 coins by answering a LOT of questions by the end of February!
• We had a Spanish lesson on Teams with Eve, a 6th year languages ambassador where she recapped numbers, greetings and family. She gave our class a shoutout because Mrs Gordon told her how great we were with Spanish!

Lead Learners

The lead learners this week were Harry and Lily. They were looking for people being responsible, respectful and ambitious. Lily and Harry were quite tough and found a few people demonstrating these values but they were really looking for quality over quantity this week.