Year 6 were delighted to welcome the Rt. Honorable Mike Martin, MP for Tunbridge Wells to Paddock Wood this week. Our current Unit of Inquiry into migration, and how it causes societies to adapt and change, has provoked a huge range of questions from students. An important step in the inquiry process is an investigation which provides students with opportunities to develop their research skills. Mr. Martin kindly accepted our invitation to speak to the students and answered many questions in a 'Question Time' style format for about an hour. We really appreciate this opportunity for our students to meet and interview a local MP, however Mr. Martin also expressed his gratitude for the opportunity to participate in the learning in our school community. 

Also in Inquiry, we have examined the Windrush migration, looking at the push and pull factors that encouraged thousands of people from the West Indies and Caribbean to pay to board the Empire Windrush (and subsiquent vessels) to move to Britain. 

In maths, we have been continuing to work with fractions and mixed numbers, adding, subtracting and multiplying mixed numbers by integers.