This term we will be exploring making artwork using a variety of different methods and materials, focussing on… Mixed Media!
Know what that is? You will by the end of this course.
Interested? I think it could be quite challenging but that all depends on YOU!!!

This class is for:
Year 7-9’s
Students who want to learn about art.
Students who want to challenge themselves.

You will need a 1A8 unruled exercise book or scrapbook, (or similar).
Be prepared to clean up after mahi.
No phones or devices needed. This is a practical class.

We will look to develop skills, strategy and knowledge around multiplication this term. For some students this will be a focus on learning how to skip count in 2's, 5's and 10's, and the relationship between skip counting and times tables/division facts. For others, there will be more of a focus on learning the times tables basic facts off by heart, practising using these in meaningful contexts and beginning to develop knowledge around how to use the written method to solve multiplication problems with bigger numbers.

We will find out about some of the significant artists and art movements that have influenced how we see our world, explore the styles and techniques they used to create their art works and experiment with making our own art works. There will be lots of opportunities for rich discussion as we consider what is art? Why do humans through time and across cultures feel the need to make it? What do people use art for? What are our own opinions about the different styles of art we see?

Students will work three x a week with myself and with follow up mathsbuddy activities to develop skills that will include;

Number Strategies AO1:
Use simple additive strategies with whole numbers and fractions.
Number Knowledge AO1:
Know forward and backward counting sequences with whole numbers to at least 1000.
Number Strategies AO1:
Use a range of additive and simple multiplicative strategies with whole numbers and fractions
Number Knowledge AO1:
Know basic multiplication and division facts.

In workshops, students will create planned reports for creating reports that respond to their learning about Climate Change and ways they can impact the world positively.

They will look at historical reasons for climate change and the science beyond this event/events.

Students will use independent reading skills, where they apply the strategies they have learned. They will read a self-chosen novel in EPIC books and each week work on three responses to this novel.

Through these strategies, students will use level 4 skills to:

Select and use a range of processing and comprehension strategies; re-checking, re-reading, predicting cross-text meaning, and inferring.
Integrate information and prior knowledge with developing confidence.
Identify main and subsidiary ideas making connections in texts.

We will focus on one text in depth three times a week.
The LA will read with the children and support the modelling of decoding and comprehension strategies.
Students also use independent reading skills, where they apply the strategies they have learned over the week.
Guided reading sessions will use the Sharp Reading strategy to read aloud together and for students to individually share comprehension and then one of four follow up strategies:
visualization, links to prior learning, links to text, predictions.

We will focus on one text three times week in depth to support learning from structured lit workshops.
I will read to the children and model decoding and comprehension strategies.
We will read together out loud and discuss the text.
Finally, students will end the week with independent reading, where they apply the strategies they have learned over the week.

This term we will be focussing on using our SDL very constructively so that we all have something to present at the end-of-term CoL.

We will use a planning and reflection process for every SDL session that we have - we will learn how to plan and reflect in a detailed and specific way so that we can establish next steps and evaluate our progress. However, this will be a quick process so that we can focus on the doing not the planning/reflecting.

For term four we are exploring Characters for writing.
We will complete character studies and consider how authors develop a character in their stories.
We will explore simile, hyperbole, personification and alliteration as ways to build our characters in our own writing.
We will develop our own characters based around members of the homebase.
We will use interview questions to build the back story of our characters.