Owls: Natural Disaster Models

We've enjoyed learning about natural disasters this term.  For home learning, we've been working hard to create amazing models of these events, many of which are interactive, and today we shared these with each other.  We spoke clearly and with confidence and practised whole body listening.

Peer Teaching in Maths

In maths today, some of our learners became teachers!  They've been working hard to revise and prepare for their own workshops and today some of these students taught others in the class.

The workshops offered included short division/bus stop revision, long division and an introduction to dividing fractions.  All of our student teachers did a fantastic job of gaining an understanding of their students' starting point and were able to adapt their teaching based on the feedback and insight they gained from their students.

It was a pleasure seeing them take such responsibility and leadership for their learning.  Congratulations to Zayaan, Farah, Hassan, Matthew, Vinuth and Omar.

"Today I learnt how to do bus stop division into the trillions.  Matthew was a really good teacher; he helped me which I got stuck and didn't act like a 'big head'.  He was really helpful and I enjoyed the student teacher workshop.  I'd like for it to happen every single week - it was good!" - Leo

"I really enjoyed doing the session today because I think it was really helpful.  The students were really good because they gave us hard stretch questions.  I think we should do these student workshops more often because I made good progress" - Aisyah

"Today at the beginning of the workshop, I'd forgotten how to use long division, so Vinuth told me all these tricks and I learnt that it's basically short division just writing all of your calcualtions down.  I made really good progress today!" - Rayan.

"Teaching was a pleasure today.  I taught Ryan and Charlie and it gave me practise with long division.  I gave them super, super stretch questions and challenged them.  They made great progress and will practise some more to get even better" - Vinuth

 

AR Olympic Medal Winners

Congratulations to Mohammed, Zoha and Cesar for winning the most Olympic Reading medals in all of year 6.  They were incredibly determined and deserve their gorgeous medals.  Congratulations!

I wonder who will win the medals next term?  

Maybe you could get a head-start by reading over the holidays...

Reading Olympics - The Owls are First in Year 6!!

We are very proud to anounce that the year 6 Owls have won the AR Olympic Reading Challenge for this term with a massive 94 medals!!! We have been in the lead since the beggining of term 1! In second place was Kestrels with 83 medals, third was the Falcons, fourth was Ospreys and finally, the Eagles. We are really proud of all the reading that we've done!

By Ethan, Zoha, Farah and Salaam

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Learning about Percentages

Mr. Whitehouse's maths class have been conducting a question hunt to solve problems involving the calculation of percentages.

There are 10 questions with three levels of difficulty. Each member of the class is able to select the question of their choice based on how confident they are when tackling the problem.

Here are a selection of photos of the group solving and finding the questions and Rasha explains how she is now more confident when solving percentage problems and gives some tips.

Progress in Art!

"Today we learned about how to draw the body in the correct shape and how to make them do positions.  We also explained the body parts and where they joined.  We drew the bodies in parts and learned that a body is 7.5 heads high.  I think my drawing has improved because last time was the first time I drew but this time I had the experience of it and used what I had learnt so it was better." 

- Walid

Can you see the progress we've made?

By Hadi, Noura, Farah, Jad, Mohammed and Lucy

Art: People in Motion - Our Starting Point

In art we're about to start learning how to draw people in motion.  These were out initial draws where we focused on the form of the body, paying particular attention to the proportions and points of movement.  

How do you think we did?  Stay tuned to follow our progress!

By Omar, Lucy, Ahmed, Zayed

By Artun, Umar, Louise, Ben, Alisya, Mohanad