This week in our maths lessons have moved on to explore division. We have been sharing into equal groups and looking at different ways to represent calculations using counters.
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Passionate about Pictionary!
Flexible Friday featured a spot of inter-crew Pictionary to end what has been an extremely busy and productive week in 6CC!
Order it, compare it, simplify it, add & subtract it!
In Maths, fractions have been our focus for the majority of Spring term so far. This week, the children have been deepening their understanding of finding a common multiple to help them compare, order, add and subtract fractions.
Intent on mastering fractions, half of the class mentored their peers in finding the common multiple so they could order fractions. Excited by the thought of using their own ‘teacher equipment’, they embraced the opportunity to support and challenge their classmates. Top notch, 6CC! 👍🏼😁
Special visitors from The Royal Ballet
This morning 3HJ were joined by visitors from Royal Opera House. The progress made by the children in the short time since starting ballet lessons has been phenomenal with huge amounts of determination and focus. We performed our Alice in Wonderland routine perfectly to an excited audience of year 4 children. All our special visitors commented on how well behave and polite our children were and loved that they were actively supporting each other. So so proud of you all.
Why did the leopard hate playing hide and seek? Because he was always spotted!
6CC thoroughly enjoyed their visit to Yorkshire Wildlife Park today will all the children captivated by the wide variety of animals prowling about the grounds. Old classics such as the roaring lion prides, majestic Amur tigers and towering polar bears were a spectacle to behold; new inhabitants of the park such as the Harar hyenas and Californian sea lions were also on show, adding to the diversity.
However, the workshop with a wildlife expert introduced several of Earth’s most well known species and how they faired in terms of their Red list level – the rating of endangerment. An eye opening experience educating the children about why the population of certain animals is declining and what is being done to help save the species.
Overall, a fantastic day out for our expedition. Well done, Crew!
In The Zone!
Today, 4TE have been practising their reading skills with some test questions about our key text – ‘The Last Bear’. We have had to get in the zone and be detectives to uncover the secrets within the text, and figure out the answers to some tricky test-like questions! We have really been working super hard as you can see!
A busy week in 6CC!
Balance! Now hold it…
Last Wednesday, both year 6 enjoyed their first gymnastics lesson where they explored the two different types of balances: point and patch.
Through communication, cooperation and a great deal of effort, each pair classified a range of solo and paired balances into the two categories, making sure to hold their balances for at least five seconds.
To conclude the session, each group were asked to create their own sequence complete with two patch and two point balances. The audience then critiqued the performers based on their synchronisation, variety of balances and showing a clear beginning and ending to their sequence. Awesome effort from all groups!
More teachers, more learning! Fractions Edition
A challenging week focusing on fractions didn’t frighten 6CC as they in their student-teacher pairs. Complete collaboration on show as the pupils and mentors threw themselves into the task, the aim being to consolidate our learning: simplifying fractions, finding equivalent fractions and comparing fractions.
There and Back Again…
Last week, as previously documented… 4TE embarked on the mighty adventure to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. Well, this week we have been planning to write about our trip. We aim to write some super detailed descriptions of what we experienced and these are some of our plans so far! We’re hopeful of some great pieces of writing to come!
¡Hola Sudamérica!
From the snowy peaks of the Andes to the green grasslands of the Pampas fields in Argentina; through the dense canopies of the Amazon Rainforest to the vast, aridvexpanses of the Atacama Desert in Chile, 6CC have put their knowledge of human and physical features to the test by exploring the various biomes in America’s southern continent.
Year 6 will now look to uncover the mysteries of each biome in South America and how the climate of each unique biome affects the life of flora and fauna within their region. Until next time, adios! 🇧🇷🇦🇷🇨🇷🇪🇨🇦🇲
The Polar Bear Necessities
Last week Year 3 and 4 were lucky enough to take a trip to Yorkshire Wildlife Park with the rest of LKS2 from all XP Trust Schools. During the day 3LG did lots of animal spottings, and even heard the lions roar. We saw, wallabies, camels, meerkats, a leopard, tigers and zebras. But our favourite was defitinetly the lemurs, who were so active running around and climbing just above our heads.
The focus of our trip was “Project Polar”, a conservation programme run by YWP in order to help save the polar bears in their natural habitat. As part of this, we were so excited to have a workshop all about polar bears run by one of the zoo’s experts. During the workshop we learned all about the adaptations polar bears have, why they are endangered and what we can do to help save them.
