Sports day superstars!
Year 5 and 6 participated in their sports day today, which saw us take part in a range of activities including sprints, obstacle course and javelin. I am so proud of each and every child today for showing determination to finish each race. Here are just some of our competitors!
Migration
In our Geography topic ‘Migration’, we have learnt about a young girl called Serra who migrated from a small town in Turkey to Tottenham, London. We talked about her push and pull factors, and whether her migration was voluntary or involuntary. Finally, we compared this to another migration story…
Recognition board
Year 6 Sharks love being recognised for our positive choices including showing our Waterside values and being ready, respectful and safe. We love to see our faces lit up and being recognised, using post-it comments, for our achievements each week. Miss Cooke hopes that next week, we will have the…
Planning for writing
Today, Year 6 have been planning their writing. The children will be producing a first person narrative as Ayesha, the protgaonist from our class text, ‘Oranges in No-Man’s Land’. They will be finishing the story, giving an alternative ending for how Ayesha manages to cross into enemy territory in…
Humanist thinkers
Year 6 have been public speaking as famous humanist thinkers from throughout history, expressing their views on religion. We have shown respect and tolerance in hearing beliefs different from our own and being able to present our knowledge using our drama skills.
Fantastic floor robots
As part of our DT topic ‘Floor Robots’, Sharks class have created an input for our Bee-Bot before observing its output. We were very impressed with how clever Bill the Bee-Bot was following our input!
Reading musical notation
Year 6 have been practicing reading musical notation and understanding the progression up and down the musical stave. We have learnt about crotchet, minim and dotted notes and their values (using our Maths skills to understand that a dot indicates half the value of the musical note added on…
Drama in Year 6!
In Year 6 this week, we have started to read about our new class text ‘Oranges in No Man’s Land’.
We have researched about the Lebanese Civil War - where the story is set - and learnt about how life changed during these times. Finally, we re-enacted the moment that the protagonist, Ayesha,…
27/03/23
In our English lessons, we have discussed the importance of planning and how this skill is necessary throughout our lives. Sharks then chose their own method to plan for their alternative perspective narrative, retelling ‘Wonder’.
20/03/23
In Writing, we have amazed Miss Cooke and Mrs Lawton with our alternative perspective narratives. We have been practising our skills writing as Eddie, the bully from the camp in ‘Wonder’. We have focused on including direct and indirect speech to move the action forwards and develop…
13/03/23
In our Writing lessons, we have been reading about the events at camp from our class text, ‘Wonder’. We learnt how Amos, Miles and Henry showed courage to defend Auggie, and showed our understanding through answering comprehension questions and writing a social media post as one of the…
06/03/23
In our Writing lessons this week, we have culminated our learning into writing a formal letter. This is addressed to Mr Tushman from the novel Wonder, and the children wrote as the character Jack Will. We used techniques re-visited over the past few lessons, including subjunctive form, perfect…