Here’s the gang!. A 
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’ up-levelled action sequence.
Right: Max’ 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.
During the last week before a well-deserved half term, 6CC worked tremendously hard to refine their drawing skills in preparation for drafting part of the final product for this term’s expedition. After some continuous line drawing, the children drew the outlines of iconic pictures from our history before experimenting with a variety of media to apply colour to their creations.
Upon returning to school on the 2nd November, our crew will be on a mission to finalise their pictures. Be on the lookout for our calendar in the near future!
Left: Jake’s drawing of Boris announcing the COVID-19 regulations.
Left: Oscar’s Winston Churchill.
This week 3HJ have been looking at how compasses work and learning how to use them correctly.
We spent time orientating the compass to find the cardinal points. Finally, we planned a route using directions across the playground.
A tricky concept but we all did so well!
Congratulations to all our winners…
Here’s another reason to celebrate. After much deliberation, Mrs Ball and Mrs Watters settled on Will for this week’s superhero: a very deserving winner…
Congratulations to Liam for becoming this week’s Crew Rock Star by amassing an impressive 17 574 coins over the last 7 days – awesome work!
Further congratulations is reserved for Lois who was voted (by her Crew) as this week’s Children’s Champion. Check out some of the comments below that were given as reasons by her peers. Very well done Lois.
And finally, here’s a trio of Special Mention’s (Toby, Elisha & Georgia) for some quite superb jottings during a math’s activity. Yes, I went a little overboard with the stamps and stickers but you would, wouldn’t you?
We felt so naughty this morning writing all over the tables in maths. We were counting forwards and backwards in jumps of 50. What an amazing job by all!
A very busy yet exciting week for 6CC! Delving further into our expedition, the children learned about the different kinds of discrimination in our history and how these key battles for equality have shaped our current landscape today. The insightful visit on Wednesday helped the children to empathise with victims of discrimination. Well done, Crew CC!
Above: Jojo Brown visited last week to speak to the children about equality and discrimination.
Above: 6CC hard at work, learning about the Suffragettes!
Above: Arithmetic pairs are go!
