Blog Author: Paul Worsnop

This week, we made our own versions of the circulatory system, showing where the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood travels to reach our lungs, and the rest of our body.

This week, as part of our circulatory system topic, we dissected a lambs heart.

The children worked in groups, to dissect and find the atriums and ventricles of the heart.

Class 14 have enjoyed dissecting hearts today and learning all about how the heart works and really enjoyed seeing the inside of the sheep heart we dissected.

Well done class 14.

We have been developing our word processing skills in Class 9 - this week we have been editing text using bold, italics, underline and alignment. 

We’ve also learnt how to undo if we make a mistake.

We did an Oracy lesson in English in Class 9 this week.

We worked in groups to answer inference questions about Chapter 3 of Oliver Twist, building on each other's ideas using phrases such as "I agree and would like to add..." and "I understand what you are saying, but..." 

In Maths, Class 9 have worked in pairs to flexibly partition 3- and 4-digit numbers, using place value counters.

This week, we discussed what foods can make a healthy lifestyle. The children looked at different food diaries, and different food labels, and discussed what snacks they thought each person should have based on their existing diet. 

We then fed this back to the class.

This week in RE class 12 have discussed their core values and how they show them in their lives.

This week in history class 12 have used oracy skills to discuss who they think is responsible for World War 1. 

This week in science Class 12 have debated whether they argue with Galen or Harvey’s theory of the circulatory system.

This week we concluded our science unit, ‘animals including humans - our amazing bodies’, by learning about nutrition and food groups. 

We used identifying and classifying to sort the foods into the different food groups. We discussed what nutrition each group provides the body and how they…

Class 12 enjoyed a visit today from Mr B who told them all about his journey from Jamaica after the war on the Windrush. 

The children were enthralled and amazed by his stories and throughly enjoyed their hour with him.