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A huge congratulations to our newest inductees into the TT Rock Stars Hall of Fame! This week, both of these rockers showed an incredible determination to improve their times table fluency. Daniel improved his rock speed by 1.79 seconds in just one week, whilst Spencer earned over 9,000 coins! Outstanding effort you two! Keep rocking!
Highest Earner
Most Improved
Our newest rock stars!
This courageous bunch have been tasting an array of critters. There were a real mixture of reactions to the taste of mealworms, crickets, locusts and grasshoppers!
This week, 6CC have edited their action sequences, explored how to use speech punctuation and undertaken some fantastic peer mentoring in Maths (dealing with our first week of fractions).
On Wednesday, our Crew enjoyed reuniting two of our most recent antagonists via a text message conversation. The children turned a basic text conversation into a dialogue full of insults and effective speech punctuation. Take a look at a few of their pieces below!
 Left: Emily’s writing!
Left: Heidi’s writing
Left: Isaac’s writing.
This week has seen the start of our writing for the final product. We have worked extremely hard in pairs to complete different paragraphs all about moths and bees. 3HJ then critiqued each paragraph together and redrafted. The quality of writing throughout has ben phenomenal and all children have blown me away! We are so excited to reveal our products you all! Watch this space!
As part of our Wonderful World of Bugs Expedition, we have been immersing ourselves in every aspect of the topic. Here, our children have been looking at what some countries are doing with regard to farming insects to replace traditional proteins, providing greater sustainability and having less of a negative environmental impact. In light of this, we have been sampling a variety of critters including locusts, buffalo worms, crickets and mealworms and of course, critiquing each ‘delicacy’ with the trained eye of an experienced food critic. Delicious! 
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quite brilliant effort from Ronnie who is this week’s superhero – he has really tried his best in every element of his learning. Alas, we the turn to Evie and Evie. The first has amassed a quite ridiculous 6661 coins on TT Rockstars over the last 7 days and the latter, has shown tremendous resilience and effort in dealing with a plethora of difficult math’s problems. Well done to all and have a great weekend everybody.
This week we have experimented with ‘Silent discussions’.
The children had to decide whether a word was either positive or negative. In our silent discussion the children were free to move around the room and write their thoughts next to the word, enabling all children to have a voice.
3HJ really enjoyed trialing this method of learning and it will definitely be used in the future.
4KC are working tirelessly towards their final product of our expedition, ‘Wonderful World Of Bugs’! Here are just some of the beautiful drawings of their chosen mini-beasts…
This week, 6CC have been exploring what makes an effective action sequence. Following two analysis lessons, our crew have produced some brilliant piece of writing about Indiana and the Golden Idol. Check out a few of their brilliant efforts below!
Left: Louis’ Â up-levelled action sequence.
Right: Max’ Â up-levelled action sequence.
Left: Heidi’s improved action sequence.
Recently, year 6 have been recapping the four operations and the strategies we must use to solve calculations (test your child on them at home!). Today, the students became the teachers as fifteen pupils were chosen to mentor their peers by critiquing their use of strategies and guiding their partner through the questions when they became stuck. It was really pleasing to see the kind and empathetic manner in which the children engaged with each other, adjusting to the pace of the learner.
Well done, Crew! Exceptional work! 🙂
Years 5 and 6 have been busy creating the artwork for our calendar based on ‘Photographs that changed the world’ which is our current expedition. We are incredibly pleased to announce that £500 has been donated by several generous businesses to help fund our venture! In these difficult times, the staff and pupils are so grateful for the kindness that has been shown and we can’t wait to see the finished calendar including outstanding artwork and wonderful writing from the children. Here’s a sneak peek of some of the tremendous art work that the pupils have produced so far.
