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Northern Lights art

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This week, we have been painting using the northern lights as our inspiration! Many of us can be seen sporting dashing Christmas headwear...

Titanic assembly

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Here are a few snaps from our Titanic assembly - thanks to those who came along to share our learning! And finally, here is a picture of two of the wonderful Frozen Kingdom topic projects completed by the talented children in Snow Leopards!

Book club

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This week, Snow Leopards have enjoyed our first Book Club linked to our reading for pleasure whole school challenge! Here we are sharing our favourite books:

Feeling prematurely festive!

We’ve been feeling festive a little early this week and we have been practicing and performing our Christmas song. The Christmas Calypso will be available to buy on CD and we will also be performing it live at the Christmas Fayre! In class, we have been working hard on our independent writing, retelling The Call of the Wild in our own words. We have been using this as an opportunity to demonstrate our fantastic writing skills – using speech to show character and move a story forward, as well as creating effective settings through imaginative scene description. In maths, we have continued to progress our fractions knowledge, adding and subtracting fractions (including mixed numbers!).

Arctic story-tellers!

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In English this week, we have continued to read The Call of the Wild and have found out about Buck’s new life in the Arctic and have met his arch-nemesis, Spitz. We’ve been learning all about the character of Buck and have also completed some descriptive writing about the Arctic-setting. In Maths, we have been talking about fractions, and have learnt how to simplify fractions and to convert fractions so that their denominators are the same. This will allow us to easily compare fractions with different denominators and to add and subtract them as well. In topic lessons, we have been looking at different pictures of the Arctic and drawing conclusions based upon those pictures. For example, looking at a picture of some Inuits, we were able to deduce that they are hunters and that they use spears. This week and last week, many of the year 6s have been helping out on the playground, accepting donations for poppies. They have taken this responsibility seriously, and should be congr
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After a well deserved rest, the Snow Leopards and Jaguars hit the ground running on Monday and got straight into our new topic - Frozen Kingdom. We will be learning about all kinds of exciting aspects of life in the northern and southern-most points of our planet - the Actic and Antarctic. To get the ball rolling, we learnt some of the words the Inuit people use for ice (see below) and undertook an experiment to consider the varying rates of ice melt experienced in these regions. See below for photos of this interesting experiment! In English, we have started looking at the fantastic The Call of the Wild  by Jack London. Set in the Arctic, this book will provide us with inspiration for our writing over the coming weeks. Finally, The Friday Celebration Assembly was an especially exciting one for Year 6 and our first batch of prefects were awarded with their certificates and badges. Well done to them - they will be taking on their new responsibilities around the school before too l

The big event!

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Year 6 children have had a busy week getting ready for our charity fundraising event! The children have been working hard, expanding their knowledge about the heart and the valuable work undertaken by the British Heart Foundation. The event itself was a fantastic experience enjoyed by all who attended. The children were on hand to share their learning, including: ·        -     Non-chronological reports about the heart ·        -     Skipping skills ·        -     Taking the pulse (resting and after exercise) ·        -     The British Heart Foundation ·        -     The science of the circulatory system and blood Our cereal bar tasting station was a huge success – the most popular option was the carrot! After school, Mrs Durrant kindly counted up all the donations and we made a grand total of £67 pounds! Well done to all those involved. Finally, we decided we had kept the children in suspense for long enough and announced our first set of prefects for the yea

Learning about blood!

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We've had a busy week in Snow Leopards, finishing our non-chronological reports on the heart and wrapping our heads around prime numbers and factors (ask us - we know what they are!). Maths lessons have also seen us starting to think about division, learning how to use short division and maybe...even long division! In the afternoons, we continue to prepare for our British Heart Foundation Charity Event. Don't forget that this is happening, parent! Next Thursday - 19th October - at 2:00pm , we are very excited to invite you all to help us raise a little awareness (and money!) for the British Heart Foundation, a superb charity that we have been learning all about. We have been practicing our skipping - a brilliant form of cardio-vascular exercise that is fantastic for your heart - photos below. We have also been learning all about the important roles that blood plays in our bodies. We hope you come and join us next week to find out all about our learning!

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