Welcome to 3C's class blog. Here you will see regular updates from our class giving you an insight into the work we get up to.
14/02/24
In English this week we have learnt about what it was like for children in the workhouse, especially how they were educated. We learnt that some Victorian children were born in the workhouse and knew nothing but cruelty and hard work. We did some comprehension work around this.
In Math’s we looked at decimal tenths. It was quite tricky as some young people hadn’t come across decimal notation before. In science we have continued exploring at with conductors and insulators. In ICT we had fun using our ideas from our flip books and transferring our skills to stickman animation.
This week 3C have made fantastic progress with their keyboard skills in Music, with some students being able to play the final steps on sheet 2! Next half term the plan is to continue with keyboard lessons to help students play songs. In Drama next half term we will be planning and performing a story that will use the 'creating an atmosphere' skills we have been learning. This week in PSHE our focus has been on personal hygiene. We discovered that our mobile phone screen could have more germs on than our toilet seat, Yuk!
However the best part of the week was running our tombola. We have bought and wrapped fidget toys and sweets for our enterprise task. If you would like to take part tickets are selling fast. It is 50p for 5 tickets, good luck.
07/02/24
In English this week we have continued planning a diary entry as if we were the character Jim Jarvis. We followed a step by step plan, learning about writing a list using bullet points. We wrote our entry using capital letters at the beginning of sentences and a suitable method of punctuation at the end of the sentence. It was important to follow our plan to make sure our diary entry was sequenced so that the reader could understand the trauma Jim and his family went though. We relied on non-fiction information about the conditions in the workhouse and how families could be separated through no fault of their own. In SPaG (spelling and grammar) we had a spelling test based on the ay, ai and a-e words we worked on last week. .
In Math’s we started work on fractions of amounts which wasn’t as easy as some young people thought it might be. We used ten rods and cubes to help and learnt how to use a multiplication grid to support divisional work. R.E. was about the conflict in the Gaza strip and how this conflict has been ongoing and how land has changed between the two nations.
In science we have looked at and experimented with conductors and insulators. In ICT we had fun making simple flip books. We watched a youtuber giving a demonstration on a simple way to make a person move and a ball bounce. We are hoping to use animation once we can install a suitable app. This week has been mental health week. We have focused on various ways in which we can look after our mental health.
