Author: Carly Appleton

This week, 6A have been using a variety of sentences to improve our writing. We watched an exciting short clip called Ruin for inspiration and the children have produced some wonderful, imaginative pieces of written work from it.

Over the past few weeks the Adventurous Explorers Club have made their own volcanoes. Although our experiment didn’t go exactly to plan, we enjoyed researching about volcanoes using our new app ‘Expeditions’ which allowed us to view them in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.

We started at the top of the pyramid and individually wrote down (in secret) what we thought the five most important features a setting description needed to include. We then shared our ideas with our friends on our tables and as a group chose the three most important features and wrote down some examples. One person from each group then

Using wall paper to write down our ideas allowed us to gather an abundance of words and phrases to use in our setting descriptions. We were able to challenge one another and extend each others learning.

Finding links between photos of different settings and key words and links between short passages helped us to recognise some of the key features of a setting description. This week we will be writing our own setting description of our villain’s lair and this activity helped to spark our imaginations and learn some new vocabulary.

Last week, we brought comprehension to life by using plasticine to model what we could visualise. We found this technique very useful when we were then asked the next day to recall sentences and phrases from the passage – The Cave.

This week, the Adventurous Explorers went for a walk in our local area. We were model citizens and cleaned up the litter we passed – there was a lot of it!

The children carried out various experiments based on the theory of natural selection. Only the strongest survived and thrived. Unfortunately, the others faced extinction!

On Wednesday afternoon, despite the cold, we took our maths lesson outside and had a lot of fun racing for problems to solve and drawing ‘spiders’ on the playground to show percentages of a number and equivalent values.

We all had a wonderful time in London this week. The children thoroughly enjoyed visiting the photography exhibition and exploring the museum. Using the tube and walking through some of the busy streets of London, was a new experience for many of them but they were all extremely well behaved and a real credit to our school and their families.