THIS WEEK'S THEME - ENVIRONMENTAL EXTRAVAGANZA!In preparation for next week's much-anticipated trip to The Crystal, we spent today learning all about the environment and sustainable energy. Numeracy - our numeracy session this week involved a lot of action! Our session was centered around planes this week, so firstly we did challenge questions about working out the perimeter and the area of airplane hangars. Next, we watched a paper plane tutorial and created our own planes, designing them to be eco-friendly. We finished off the session with a massive competition for whose plane could fly the furthest - some travelled some very impressive distances! Literacy - today we began our literacy session by looking at footage of a landfill site, and finding interesting and high-level words to describe the five senses in that place. After expanding our knowledge on pollution, garbage waste and environmental problems, students wrote to either the Croydon MP Gavin Barwell or the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, to talk about their concerns. We've been recording our students reading their letters - so maybe we can make an impact. Creativity - creativity today was all about types of renewable energy, which will help us on next week's trip to The Crystal where we'll be exploring this topic in an interactive center. After an interesting discussion about what different types of renewable energy there are, students created PowerPoint presentations in order to present some facts about each type, from solar energy to geothermal power. Here are some photos of what we got up to:
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THIS WEEK'S THEME - DINOSAURS!All of our sessions were Jurassic-themed this week! Numeracy - today everyone made some excellent efforts in completing lots of dinosaur-themed worksheets. First up was a code breaker, where we uncovered a sentence by adding and subtracting complicated decimal numbers. We then moved onto lots more fun activities - from measuring the heights of dinosaurs, to colouring them in by numbers, and playing sudoku-saurus! Literacy - inspired by a scene from Doctor Who, we asked ourselves what would it be like if dinosaurs invaded London and Croydon? After a quick discussion about which powerful adjectives we could use, we filled our worksheet pages with sentences to describe an invading dinosaur. Using a story mountain as a structure, students put together some fantastic descriptive writing pieces about the dinosaurs taking over the town. Creativity - in creativity this week, we created our own dinosaurs, by deciding what type of dinosaurs they would be like, such as a carnivore or a herbivore, and what they would look like. After watching some clips from Jurassic Park movies, we typed up some creative stories about how we would react if we were in that world. See below for photos of this week's activities: THIS WEEK'S THEME - UNDER THE SEA!We had lots of fun this week with our under the sea theme. Numeracy - We challenged the maths skills we've been building up in lessons at school. Everyone put a lot of effort in when completing a worksheet full of tricky questions involving negative numbers. Afterwards we linked our numeracy learning to our under the sea theme, by taking lots of images of things such as submarines and creatures, and placing them on a number line, to guess how deep in the sea they can go! Literacy - We practised our creative writing skills today, spending much of the lesson writing after a short discussion to brainstorm some ideas. A documentary clip of an ocean with two contrasting sides gave us lots of creative fuel, and we set to work drawing colourful storyboards, to illustrate our descriptive writing. Creativity - In this session, we got competitive with our knowledge of the sea. Heroes quizzed students on what they knew about the sea, and sea life. For every question a student got right, they were able to move up on a ladders and eels game board - we had lots of winners. Here are our students in action this week, exploring our under the sea theme through creative learning: THIS WEEK'S THEME - SPACE!We (quite literally!) launched into our first week back after the October holidays, with an out of this world Space theme. Numeracy - we worked on some number skills that we haven't yet practised in the normal school week. We used different functions such as multiplying and subtracting, in complicated tasks to try and find the number we were looking for. Our worksheets were space-themed, and each planet was a different step of a sum, in order to get to the number we were aiming for. Literacy - Miss McPherson made the world's first ever alien contact - but this alien's words got a little lost in translation. Students took on the challenge of decoding the alien's words, before going on to write their own letters to a species on another planet. We focused on writing in a detailed way, so we could describe the most exciting things about Earth - as well as how we live. Creativity - this week, we made our own planets! Miss Smith-Henry gave us a quiz on the planets and our solar system - some of us could recite every planet in order from memory. Afterwards, we went into detail to design our own dream planets - choosing scientific facts to describe them, as well as choosing whether they'd support life, and what it would be like to live there. Here are this week's space explorers: |
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