P7S Class 2021/22

We are working our way through Wonder at quite a speed in order to complete it before the year ends! Today, the children thought about the main characters and ordered them on a scale of who was the kindest and who was not so kind. They then compared their answers with another group - eventually this led to the whole class agreeing on the scale, using their inference skills to explain their choices.

This morning, we had our first practice on the stage as the children were able to use the space to rehearse and begin to think about staging and voice. From this we were also able to start thinking about the props, sound effects and the lighting that we will need too.

Today with Miss Khadija, the children thought about emotional awareness. They started by playing a warm-up game before looking at how film characters can show emotion such as fear and sadness. P7S then reflected on moments when they may have felt these emotions and talked about how feeling these emotions is complete normal.

The children have been learning how to construct pie charts in Maths this week using their understanding of angles. Today, they came up with their own idea and surveyed the class before completing their chart.
I am really impressed with their efforts this week as this is not the easiest of tasks!

In English, the children wrote an internal monologue from the perspective of Jack Will. They spent a lot of time thinking about his actions and how this compared to his inner feelings. They then had to show their speaking and listening skills by performing their monologues to the class.

Thursday continues to be our Problem Solving & Arithmetic day.
Today, the children had to work together on a range of Maths clues to solve the mystery - they all did an excellent job where they applied the skills they have learnt in lessons.

In Maths today, the children learnt about the different parts of the circle. They investigated the relationship between the radius and diameter, learning that the diameter is double the length of the radius. I'm looking forward to introducing them to Pi as the week goes on!

After reading a couple more chapters of our novel Wonder, the children got into character by acting out their predictions of Auggie's first day of school. By doing so, the children were able to develop their understanding of the different characters.

The children have worked so hard on their assessments this week - I am so proud of them! It was really nice to finish off the week with our own World Book Day - don't the children look great?! We worked on our Wonder self-portraits, had a parade, did a whole phase Kahoots on the teachers' favourite books and of course had the prizes for the best costumes and art pieces!

Wonder Self-Portraits

Parading About

It has been good to see the children looking refreshed after the Eid break. We have gone straight into revision sessions for Maths and English; assessments will be taking place throughout the week. They've done a great job working together on some of the more trickier assessment-style questions. This afternoon, the class then shared their favourite memories of one another as we look to their end-of-term assembly.

In Maths this week, the class have been learning all about line graphs. Today they had to research their own data - on either a country's average temperatures or population over time- and construct line graphs from this information.

The children are really enjoying the book 'Wonder'. Yesterday, they thought and wrote about a funny anecdote, having looking at one in the text, whilst today they started learning about the different characters.