What a fantastic first week back we've had in Class Lewis - lots of new learning and achievements! Incredibly proud of you all this week as we won the Attendance Cup - amazing to see you all coming into school every day and loving your learning.
In Maths, we have started our new topic of Area and Perimeter. This week we've focused on the perimeter of rectangles, rectilinear shapes and polygons. Some great presentation in our books!
In English, we published our balanced arguments on slavery from our Transatlantic Slave Trade unit from last half-term. Some beautiful pieces of writing! We then began our creative writing unit on Oliver Twist. We created mind-maps of Charles Dickens, focusing on his life and the historical context of Oliver Twist, highlighted the key themes found in the first chapter: criminality, poverty, class, religion, identity and contrasting regions, and then analysed an extract by using conjunctions to explain why life was hard for Oliver Twist.
In History, we began our topic of Victorians by studying Queen Victoria and created our own timeline of the significant events in her life, such as her 60+ year reign as the second-longest reigning monarch of all time, her marriage to Prince Albert and becoming the Empress of India and expanding the British Empire.
In Art, we have started printmaking. We focused on Industry and Ideliness by Hogarth, who created prints that commented on the society of London in the 18th Century. We annotated the image by saying what we could see, guess and know. We then created our stencils ready to make our monoprint.
In Spanish, we have identified different foods and drinks found in a cafeteria - yummy!
In Computing, we learnt how a database is a collection of data. We researched 4 animals and recorded if they had 6 legs, could fly, if they had more than 1 colour and lived in large groups. From sorting through our data and ordering data alphabetically, we were then able to identify animals that could fly and animals which had 6 legs.
In PSHE, we have started our new topic of Relationships. As a class, we created our own definitions of personality and self-esteem. We then drew a photo of ourselves and around it wrote our own positive personal qualities that make us - us!
Finally, in RE we started our new worldview of Judaism. This week we have focused on diversity and have created posters of all the different groups we belong in, inviting others to join us. This has ranged from dancing, gaming, animals and swimming. Some very inventive posters!
Alongside our wonderful learning, we have also found time to celebrate our achievements. We enjoyed a birthday lunch on Tuesday - thank you so much for my invite, and we hope that you had a lovely 10th birthday!
Well done to our Kahoot! Winners from English this week for recapping their learning of Charles Dickens and the workhouse!
A huge well done to our first Golden Pupil of Summer Term. Incredibly proud of this pupil for his first week in Class Lewis - he has settled in so well and has worked so hard on his presentation that he has already earned his pen licence and is the latest winner of Miss Edgeley's prestigious fidget spinner. Keep this hard work up, superstar!
Mrs T & I are incredibly proud of this pupil for becoming our first Star of the Week of Summer Term. He has worked so hard this week on his behaviour, motivation to complete work and taking pride in his presentation. This is amazing to see - please keep it up!
Well done to our ReadTheory double whammy winner for taking the most quizzes and earning the most knowledge points!
Well done to these pupils for scoring full marks in their times table test - practice makes perfect!
Finally, a huge well done to our first Narnia Dojo Champions of the Summer Term - Queen Susan for earning 223 Dojos!
