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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