Class 9's Spring 1 Newsletter!

Literacy

In Literacy this half term, we have been writing a non-chronological report all about different types of sea creatures.

During this unit, we have focused on a number of different skills, these included gathering subject specific and formal vocabulary, adverbials and how these can uplevel our writing. semi colons and colons, relative clauses and also subordinate conjunctions.

When copying up this piece of work, we have really impressed Miss Culshaw with our determination to ensure this is the best piece we have done.

LIRA

In LIRA this term, we have been focusing on a number of books. These included Varjak Paw, Northern Lights, Cogheart and the Wolves of Willoughby Chase.

During our LIRA sessions, we focused on a range of different activities and questions. We enjoyed making predictions on what we thought the stories will be about.

Also during this half term, we had the chance to take part in a virtual author event. We had a brilliant time learning all about the book 'Beast Lands' by Jess French.

Maths

In maths, we have been recapping place value, addition and subtraction, geometry before finishing off with statistics. We have focused on ensuring our arithmetic fluency is great and some of us moved onto more reasoning style questions to further our understanding.

We have also been improving our arithmetic score and our class average has gone up an amazing 10 points!

History - Ancient Maya

In History, we have been exploring all about the Ancient Maya.

We have been looking at when the Ancient Maya period was and using our skills of chronology to fit it in to other time periods we know. We have also looked at the significance of religion in Ancient Maya times. We learnt all about how the Ancient Maya lived, and even had a go at writing a diary entry in the form of a Mayan child.

We enjoyed creating posters, using our ICT skills on everything we have learnt about the Ancient Mayas.

RSHE

Our RSHE focus has been on economic wellbeing. We have explored how we can pay for different things, how people have different attitudes to saving or spending money depending on their personal situation and finally deciding if something is good value for money or not.

Science

In Science, our focus has been on animals including humans.

During this unit, we have learnt all about the function of the heart, lungs and circulatory system. We also explored the different components of blood and even had the chance to make our own blood!

We also looked at how exercise can effect heart rate and created a scientific enquiry all about exercise and the effect on heart rate. Then finally finishing off with how does lifestyle and exercise affect the body.

PE - Gymnastics

Our focus for this half term has been on gymnastics!

We have enjoyed using the different apparatus to create our gymnastic routines!

Things to Celebrate!

Celebration Certificates, TTRs Certificates and Spelling Shed Certificate and Sporting Certificates!