Group Work In Maths

For maths in room 10 have been finishing up our transformation topic. The last 2 sessions the students were working in small groups through a task on scale factors and areas of rectangles - and investigating the relationship between the two. Each group worked really well together, there were some great maths discussions happening and through lots of investigation we came up with the generalisation that 'whatever the scale factor you enlarge your rectangle by, the area is enlarged by the square of the scale factor'.

Name Skeleton Art

For art in room 10 we have been making 'Name Skeletons' as part of our inquiry topic 'The Incredible Human Machine'. You'll notice the torso for each skeleton is different - it's their names reflected! Along with a torso, arm bones, hands and skull, they had to include 4 other features, one of which had to be a headpiece or hat. They all turned out great!

Reading in Week 4

This week we are reading a story written by Jack Lasenby from a very OLD School Journal - 1992!!
We are looking at how the author gets us thinking about social issues and how he makes us understand those issues from a certain perspective!

Week 3

This week Room 10 has been

• in Literacy finishing our learning about writing recounts and begun looking at persuasive texts. We have also been practising evaluating the reliability of a text.  One skill we focused on was triangulating our online research by cross-checking with other trusted sites. We found out that not all websites can be trusted - no matter how good they look! Also Mrs Burch had a fun lesson with plays and drama!
• In Maths looking at transformation. Transformation includes, translation, rotation, reflection and enlargement. Mrs Goodwin had us looking at flags of the world that had Rotational symmetry.

• In Inquiry focusing on different body systems - working through their project in pairs. This afternoon we looked into the human body through this BBC website

Body systems jigsaw

We also sat two e-asttle tests this week; one in reading and one in maths!