Blog by Tag: my thinking and problem solving

Another busy week in 11R. With this week being friendship week, we started off with odd sock day on Monday. The students have spent time this week thinking about this year's friendship week theme "one kind word." We spent time discussing the difference between bullying and banter with staff and…

What another fabulous week it has been in 7P!

We started the week with a potions lesson, helping to support us with our counting, addition and in some cases multiplication! We used the different potion ingredients to count, and used numicon shapes to help us where we needed it! We have tried…

7P have settled in very well after their half term holidays. It was great to talk about what they had all been up to and look at pictures too!

This week 7P have been learning about Diwali through My Thinking and Problem Solving and My Communication. Learners in 7P have shown that they can…

Today we are celebrating Diwali in school. 8A thought about what we had learnt last year about Diwali as part of our Year 7 “celebrations” theme. We could remember that Hindus celebrate Diwali and that they get presents at Diwali. Mrs Crouch reminded us that Diwali was the festival of light and we…

It has been a very busy couple of weeks in 7P. We have had a brilliant time and can't wait to share all of the photographs with you.

7P were very lucky and got to take Coco out for a walk during golden time. She is so friendly and fluffy and we all really enjoyed ourself. 
We continued to work…

This week in 8A, Annie brought her business “Annie’s dog treats” into class. We have had a great time helping Annie create dog treats to give to Coco the dog. We had to work as a team to follow the recipe to create the treats. We took Coco for a walk and then rewarded her with a treat that we had…

Willow class have had a busy week showing their adults what smarty-pants they are at maths!

We have been refreshing our knowledge of numicon and completing numicon assessments to see what we can remember from last year and what we want to work on this year. While friends have completed their…

Fantastic weather once again for our adventures on the lake. We began the day rafting all the way across the lake to Lever Park. We walked through the woods and visited Liverpool Castle. The students had an impromptu game of sardines within the ruined castle; we made hot chocolate over a camping…

Well our last full week in 7A has come around so quickly. We are looking forward to a few days of celebrations next week but this week in My Communication  we have been thinking about what we are looking forward to in Year 8. Most of us are looking forward to moving to a new classroom and…

9G have been working very hard over the past few weeks. We have been making our own camper vans as part of the Happy Campers topic!

9G all shared their camper vans on our share our learning session with parents which we really enjoyed! Each learner had planned out their own camper van using…

This week in Oak class we made sandwiches that look like ships! We watched Miss Curry butter a slice of bread, add some ham on top, butter some more bread and then sandwich it all together. Then Miss Curry surprised us by making a sail for our boat with a cocktail stick and a slice of cheese! It…

This half term Rowan class have been learning all about the Vikings.  

Vikings lived in a long, narrow building called a longhouse. Most had timber frames and thatched roofs. Viking jewellery was beautifully made, using materials ranging from gold to simple animal bones. Both men and women…