Class 10 have had the most fantastic term! They have worked so hard and blown us away with their resilience and determination. This week, we looked at the impact of migration on life in Britain, focusing on food art (photography) and music. We researched on an artist called Peter Brathwaite who recreates famous historic portraits using everyday household items. We worked in pairs to recreate paintings using items found in the classroom and around school.

We would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Enjoy the Christmas break and we look forward to seeing you all again in January.

Mrs Duncan, Mr Walker and Mr Creber

Unfortunately, I was unable to upload our Parliament speeches to the website as the files were too large. I have uploaded the videos to Seesaw so that you can view them. The QR code below will take you to the Seesaw page, or you can just log into Seesaw as you would when you complete your homework.

Mrs Duncan

There has been lots going on in Class 10 this week; it has been Anti-Bullying Week, Parliament Week and Book Day.

Parliament Week

We learnt that Parliament is made up of three central elements: the House of Commons, the House of Lords and the Monarchy. The main business of Parliament takes place in the two Houses. Generally the decisions made in one House have to be approved by the other.

We created our own political parties, drew up our manifestos and delivered our speeches to the rest of the school on Thursday. The party who received the most votes were KAETEK; it was a very close contest and all the parties were absolutely fantastic!

Well done Year 6.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Duncan, Mr Walker and Mr Creber

Please accept my apologies that our weekly update is late this week.

Last week was another fantastic week in Class 10. Here are some of the things we learnt:

Purple Leaf

Purple Leaf came in for their second session. We talked about feelings and behaviours and used the analogy of an iceberg to help us understand that what is going on on the outside can be misinterpreted because we don’t understand what is happening on the inside.

Writing

In writing, we are now looking at autobiographies. We identified the key features and began to look at some of the features in more detail.

History

In history, we looked at push and pull factors:

Push factors “push” people away from their home and include things like war.

Pull factors “pull” people to a new home and include things like better opportunities.

We decided whether each of the push/pull factors were social, economic or political. We then thought about which migrant group this linked to and how.

Finally, we compared the experiences of two different migrant groups, considering similarities and differences and the reasons for these.

Mrs Duncan, Mr Walker and Mr Creber