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Wonderful Work from Class 8

29/11/2020

Whole Class Reading

We are really enjoying our whole class reading sessions.
Our favourite day is paired reading where we get to take it in turns to model wonderful reading and help each other out if we get stuck. I loved seeing how focused and encouraging you all were this week; keep up the amazing work everyone!

Anti-Bullying Week

29/11/2020

We read Adrian Mitchell's Poem- Back in the Playground Blues, in our whole class reading this week.
We rehearsed reading it aloud and then arranged the performance read by adding or removing voices to emphasise key words and messages.
We discussed the meaning and related it to our understanding of bullying and how to tackle it should we ever need to.
Take a look at the video below: everyone did a fantastic job.

Marvellous Maths

23/11/2020

Wonderful maths work today for our Year 5s We were multiplying by 10 and 100 (which we have been finding tricky until today). Everyone worked so hard and explained their reasoning really well.
Keep it up everyone 😊👍

Diary Writing

23/11/2020

We have begun writing our diaries this week. We are writing as a child experiencing the Blitz during WW2. I cannot wait to read to finished published diaries because the drafts are looking amazing.
Some of the powerful vocabulary I have seen so far includes:

the perpetual, blaring siren rang in my ears
fear swelled inside me like a venomous bubble
the air was abuzz with the drone of engines
it looked as if the city were enveloped in a thick fog

Everyone is trying their best to create a powerful and captivating atmosphere; I am super excited to read the final versions!

History - WW2

2/11/2020

Code Breaking Challenge

Excellent teamwork and reasoning skills in our history lesson this week when we worked together to solve secret codes using a cypher wheel. It took quite a bit of perseverance and patience but we did a great job. We learnt about different codes and ways to send messages during WW2 and how mathematicians with great problem solving brains were vital to the war effort.

These two fabulous teams were so good at code breaking they even created their own code for each other to solve, and were super competitive to see who solved it first!

Blitz Paintings

We are very proud of our Blitz artwork. We mixed a range of hues to create a background and blended them with sponges and different brushes to create texture; then we added details using tones of grey and white.

Once the paint dried, we made stencils from card and added the city scenes and bombers to the backgrounds using charcoal.

Air Raid in Athersley

It was quite surprising to hear the air raid siren go off (very loudly) in our classroom. We didn't panic, we sat squashed up under our desks and tried to imagine how it would have felt to be a child in WW2 and experience this for real.

Fantastic Filtering

2/11/2020

We loved our science challenge today: which team could filter the VERY dirty water to make it as clear as possible? We put our filtering and teamwork skills to the test in this race against the clock investigation.

Super Science

2/11/2020

We loved making solutions in science. We predicted what would happen when a range of solids were mixed with water, observed the reactions carefully and then discussed our results.
We noticed that once the water had evaporated, some of the solutions were reversible.