Orion2017-2018

Some of you may know that we have been learning about Ancient Greece this term. On Wednesday the 28 th March, Orion class put on a fabulous Greek Museum with Year 6. We had six different stations including Democracy in Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek Science and Architecture, Women and Men in Ancient Greece, Olympics in Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek Theatre and Greek Myths. We really enjoyed our Greek museum although it did require a great deal of planning and preparation. Thank you to all of you that came along and we hope that you enjoyed it! Linking to our Greek topic, we have been writing our own non-chronological report on Ancient Greece. We chose three topics to write about and shared our fantastic fun facts with each other. Overall we have really enjoyed our learning about Ancient Greece this term and we are looking forward to our next terrific topic. Miss Aston, Mrs Ross and Mrs Barfoot say “well done for being outstanding learners, have the most wonderful Easter break a...

We have had an enjoyable week especially today as we are in non-school uniform and have bought in lots of lovely chocolate. Thank you for everybody that has donated! We have also started to prepare for our Greek Museum afternoon, which we are really excited about and hope that you can join us. A letter will be on the way next week. One Orion class member says “This week in English, we have been learning about    co-coordinating and subordinating conjunctions to link clauses. At first, we found this tricky but now we are really understanding, how to use them in our writing.” After that, we watched the Pixar film called ‘lifted’ and then did some writing about it to show our teachers that we can use, FANBOYS and I SAW A WABUB. If you aren’t sure what this means, just ask us! In Maths, we have finished our topic on division which some of us found tricky to start with. We all ‘persevered’ and we are all feeling much more confident! As a result of mastering division Miss A...