Hello everyone!
Only a few weeks left of term three! Please keep an eye out for a separate email with details of our class trip. Here are some highlights from this week’s learning.
In English, students completed and refined their travel advice leaflets, ensuring their work was clear, well organised and appropriate for the intended audience. They then completed a lesson focused on improving sentence types, helping them vary their writing for greater impact and clarity. Following this, students began work on the Travel Agent project, researching a European destination and planning a one-week family holiday based on a detailed client brief. This project requires students to apply their persuasive, descriptive, and advisory writing skills, as well as research and planning, to prepare for creating and presenting a persuasive travel proposal.
In History this week, students learned about segregation and discrimination in 1950s America, exploring how unfair laws affected the everyday lives of Black Americans. They then took part in an interactive stations lesson, where they investigated key Civil Rights protests and examined the risks people faced when challenging segregation. Students discussed who was taking the risks, what could happen to them, and which actions involved the greatest danger, helping them to understand how risk played a central role in the Civil Rights Movement.
In Geography, students built on their learning by first exploring natural hazards, identifying where events such as earthquakes, floods and volcanoes occur around the world and creating global risk maps to show patterns and levels of risk. They then moved on to a natural disaster case study, researching a real event to understand how physical features, natural hazards and human factors can combine to increase risk and impact on people.
Maths
Year 8
Number Sense
This week, students continued the topic of Number Sense.
- Spr.6.4 – Understand and use error interval notation (H)
- Spr.6.5 – Calculate using the order of operations
- Spr.6.6 – Calculate with money
- Spr.6.7 – Convert metric measures of length
- Spr.6.8 – Convert metric units of weight and capacity
Students developed their understanding of accurate calculations, applied the correct order of operations, and practised solving real-life problems involving money and metric conversions.
Kindly note that we will be having an assessment next Friday.
Year 9
Rotation and Translation
Students continued learning about transformations.
- Spr.5.4 – Rotated shapes about a point not on the shape.
- Spr.5.5 – Translated points and shapes using given vectors.
- Spr.5.6 – Compared rotations and reflections of shapes.
- Spr.5.7 (H) – Found the result of a series of transformations.
- An assessment was completed, and students performed great.
