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Sparta class took part in the National Storytelling week with the rest of Milestone. All our learning took place around the story 'Snow White in New York.'
The Snow White fairy tale receives a 1920s Art Deco treatment in this beautiful retelling by Fiona French. Now a beautiful socialite, Snow White falls foul of her celebrity-loving stepmother who the tabloids call 'the classiest dame in New York'.
Left to fend for herself in the wild city, Snow White finds work singing with the seven jazz-men and, discovered by a handsome music reporter, becomes the Belle of New York City once more. Danger looms in the form of a poisoned cocktail cherry, but in the end Snow White is rescued from death by the reporter, and they sail off into the sunset aboard a luxury cruise ship.
Reminiscent of the paintings of Tamara de Lempicka, this beautiful book oozes with attitude, style and the elegance of 1920s America.
Students looked at the features of a traditional tale then at the characters and how both good and bad characters are portrayed in a stereotypical manner.
They also wrote their own version of the story using Milestone as the setting and choosing characters to fill in the gaps.
We identified the different jobs and careers of the characters in the story, then investigated what skills were required for these as well as what the jobs offered. During this lesson, we thought about our aspirations and the goals we would need to develop to achieve these.
Sabriella would like to be either an animal saver or a chef, she was undecided, but would like to get better at science.
The wicked step mother made some irresponsible choices, this led to us investigating some scenerios and decide upon the actions sorting them into responsible and irresponsible before discussing the consequences. After the paramedic spoke with the phase, Sparta class looked at accidents or emergencies and what they would do, if there was an emergency.
During maths lessons, we used our knowledge of addition and subtraction to calculate different amounts of coins, then worked out change from a specific amount. We used numicon, number lines and coins and recorded the answers in our books.
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