Blog by Tag: 10A Class

This week we have been celebrating the count down to Christmas, starting with our production on Monday. It was a fantastic display of all the talents we have in school. 10A really stepped up this year, taking on some of the roles of running the show, including being narrators, judges, props,…

A huge thank you to Initiate Theatre for their fantastic performance of Dick Whittington this afternoon. Key Stage 3 and 4 Classes had a great time! 

Today we completed a 5km walk for our DofE expedition. We all took it in turns to read the map and navigate the way and we had a turn being the group leader. The group leaders job was to make sure everyone stayed together, at the start of the walk, Miss Bentham gave us all a number, so when we…

Today, we have had another great day at Bendrigg, we went canoeing and made our own tea on a camping stove.
We’ve had a brilliant day, and we will share all of our photos and experiences next week, during sharing our learning. We are so proud of everyone for following our trip motto “Give it a go…

10A have had a great first day at Bendrigg. When we arrived we all enjoyed a jacket potato lunch. After lunch we walked around the grounds, and our guide Holly and Claire showed us around the grounds. Holly and Claire showed us how to use the Trangia’s and we all enjoyed a hot drink with the water…

Monday 18th - Today we had our first look at picture news. We had a look at an ancient city that has been discovered in the jungle in Mexico. We all found it really interesting, we then went on to have a look at other big discoveries through history and how they impacted the world. In the…

During our D of E carousel we had visits from different teacher. They spoke to us about some of the things we will need to know to help us prepare for our trip to Bendrigg. 
 

Our first talk was with Miss Bentham, during our talk we learned about the country code. We had a talk about how we…

On Monday morning we learnt about Remembrance Day. We talked about why we commemorate Remembrance Day and what happens on each year on the 11th November. We then went down to the cage at 11 o'clock to listen to Mrs Chaloner playing the Last Post on her trumpet. The whole class were very…

This week saw some of us continuing with addition and subtraction in maths, looking at how to break down word problems so solve the questions. Some of us worked on multiplication and division, using written methods to find the answers.

In English, we have been writing letters to local garden…

Welcome back to Autumn 2 - this will be a long term with lots of exciting things happening along the way, leading up to Christmas! As I forgot to publish the blog at the end of last term, some of the photos are of our last week in term 1 - apologies! 

The week started off with us making some…

This week in English, we thought of a place we would like to visit on holiday and created a word bank to describe it. We then used these words to tell our families about our holiday on a postcard. We had to be sure to not write too much, as postcards aren't very big, but I think we all got across…

Maths this week has seen us continue with addition and subtraction, with some learners working on adding 3 1-digit numbers together, adding tens across 100s and even adding and subtracting fractions! 

In English we have been working on our reading skills, spending lots of time reading our books…