15 May

10R Celebrate Eid and Mental Health Awareness Week

It’s been a busy week in 10R this week. As well as continuing with our English work on the signs we see in and around the community and our Maths work which is measurement, we have celebrated Eid on Wednesday and taken part in Mental Health Awareness Week on Friday. 
To join in the Eid…

7 May

10R look at portion sizes

Today we continued our functional skills looking at portion sizes and nutrition facts. 
 

we learned that fibre is good for our gut.
 

Pupils worked out what fibre is and how much we should be eating per day. We divided this by 3 meals and then made a simple meal of sandwiches and crisps…

30 Apr

10R wear red

Today 10R learnt all about diversity and used smarties to look at the percentages of different ethnic groups living in our country.  We had great fun exploding paint balloons on a map of the United Kingdom to represent the different ethnic groups and watching the different colours mixing together.…

23 Apr

10R Help the Environment

 

This week it has been Earth Day 2021, so 10R have turned their thoughts to what we can do for the environment. We have discussed how we can help the Earth, and pupils made posters to promote what we can all do towards this like reusing, recycling, using the car less and planting more trees…

24 Mar

10R Continue To Look At Geography Around The World

Wow what stars!

 

well done to Jamie for creating a fab pyramid landscape,

                     Joe for a super Stonehenge project

                    Harvey for a wonderful Holland landscape 

                   Callum for a super Big Ben tower.

 

What great homework projects…

16 Mar

10R look at the nature around us

This term 10R have been looking at the world, what is natural and what did human make? 
 

We have waited for a dry day and seized the moment to get our windsocks up and discussed the way the wind was blowing and how we could tell this from looking at our windsocks. 
 

We then began to…

12 Mar

10R make windsocks

As part of our science work on forces 10R have been making windsocks to help us look at the force of the wind and how we can tell which direction it is blowing.  We used our measuring and fine motor skills to help us follow the instructions.  Unfortunately we were so busy making our windsocks that…

26 Feb

10Rs Rainbow Cake

10R have worked their creative talents today to produce an excellent chocolate cake with rainbow topping.  We have demonstrated some excellent teamwork and turn taking while making and decorating the cake in our rainbow theme. We even had enough sweets left to do a science experiment and produce…

4 Feb

Express Youselves for Children's Mental Health Week

While we are learning from home and seeing less of friends and family looking after our mental health is more important than ever.

This year's Children's Mental Health Week concentrates on expressing yourself.  Expressing yourself can be done in lots of different ways  - it includes  how you…

28 Jan

10R learn about Judaism

As part of our work for World Religion work 10R have been learning all about Judaism.  In our teams call on Tuesday we read a news article written by Mrs Woods all about synagogues and then completed a quiz about what we had read.

Students then wrote their own article about the opening of a new…

19 Jan

Winter well-being - grab your wellies!

With rain pouring down outside and stay at home orders in place it’s more important than ever to look after our well-being.  A blast of fresh air can do wonders for your mental well-being, getting your body moving and lifting your mood.

There’s lots of fun things that you can be doing outside…

13 Jan

Looking after our well-being with yoga

For PE lessons this term we are trying yoga.  This weeks lesson focussed on breathing and how it can help you channel your attention and relax.  
Those of us in class enjoyed our yoga session and found it relaxing even though some of the poses were challenging!

We hope those of you learning…