Welcome to Class 9!

Mr Livesey & Miss Evans are so excited to have you in Class 9 this year. Get ready for a fun and exciting journey filled with learning, discovery, and new friendships. Together, we will explore new ideas, solve challenges, and make this year unforgettable. Let’s start this adventure with big smiles and open minds!

Writing

During our first writing unit we focused on the book 'The Watertower' written by Gary Crew. For our first Big Write, we have written a setting description of the Watertower itself, where pupils have developed their descriptive skills by focusing on: expanded noun phrases to describe what they can see, hear, smell and touch, figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification & onomatopoeias). 

We then moved onto writing a biography where we linked this to Black History Month and learnt from the book – Count on Catherine. The pupils then developed this into their own writing, where we used the skills that we focused on to write our own biography on local talent, Callum Simpson. 

Autumn 1 

Wider Curriculum Subject studied in Autumn Term 1

• History - The Vikings
• Art - Drawing and sketching figures.
• Science - Evolution & Inheritance.
• PE - Hockey & Fitness.
• PSHE - Me and my relationships.
• Computing - Systems & Searching
• Music - Looping & Mixing 

Autumn 2 

Wider Curriculum Subject studied in Autumn Term 2

• Science - Light 
• History - The Vikings
• DT - Sewing 
• PE - Football & Gymnastics 
• PSHE - Valuing Differences
• Music - The Blues
• Computing - Webpage Creations

Writing 

Writing in Autumn 2 say the pupils take to writing a non-chronological report about an animal of their choice, a newspaper report about an animal escaping from a zoo and then writing a formal letter in defence of Father Christmas in regard to accusations that he unlawfully enters children’s homes on Christmas Eve.

Current Learning – Spring Term

Spring 1 

Subjects studied for our wider curriculum:

• Geography - Earth Matters
• Science - Electricity 
• RE - Special people 
• PE - Handball & Dance
• PSHE - Keeping Safe
• Music - Theme and Variations
• French - My Monster (description)

Writing 

Wonder, written by R.J. Palacio, was our focus for writing during Spring 1. We learnt all about Auggie Pullman, a young boy who was born with a facial deformity and is now trying his best to fit in at his new school, Beecher Prep. 

The pupils completed 3 units of writing which included a piece of dialogue between two characters from the story, a diary entry; from the perspective of August, and a persuasive letter written as August, to his Mum in order to persuade her to either allow August to continue attending Beecher Prep or return to being homeschooled.

Spring 2 

Wider curriculum subjects we are studying:

• Science - British Science Week
• Geogrpahy - Earth Matters (continued from Spring 1)
• Art - Sculpture
• French - Barnsley, My Town 
• PSHE - Rights & Respect
• Music - Musical Theatre
• PE - Dodgeball & Yoga

Writing 

Our focus on Writing has been based upon the book "The inventions of Hugo Cabret," written by Brian Selznik. Our first writing unit focused on writing a newspaper report which linked to our understanding of the story and the character of Hugo Cabret. Pupils wrote reports about the discovery of the young boy living in the train station walls, the invention of the Mechanical man and the mystery behind toys being stolen from the toy booth within the train station. 

We have since moved on to now writing a flashback. We linked our initial idea from the book, before now, using our own independence to choose a special memory/moment in which we are beginning to write a flashback on.

 

Check back with us after Easter to find out the exciting learning that will be taking place during Summer Term! 

Mr Livesey & Miss Evans!