Students used Scratch Jr to make algorithms to simulate a tube moving along the Central Line and we visited different stops along the Central Line and wrote persuasive texts about each stop.

Children became experts in their chosen country; Ghana, Japan or Mexico. They researched different elements of the country including climate, religion, celebrations and food.

Children worked as historians throughout the project, practicing investigating sources and looking at the continuity and change between life in England before the Industrial Revolution and after.

Students were immersed in the context surrounding The Beatles and their movement, including the emergence of Beatlemania. They learnt and studied a number of Beatles songs, exploring the musical and stylistic links with the music of their contemporaries.

Each group was given a specific event during the Cold War to research, develop an immersive production and create a Cold War spy style puzzle. The groups looked at the 'Three Conferences', 'The Czechoslovakian Crisis' 'The Berlin Crisis' and the 'Cuban Missile Crisis'.

Applying the abstract properties of shape to characters in a story.

Year 7 students have been learning how to structure an effective pop song and write well-crafted lyrics with form, rhythm and flow.

Students used an immigration story from the news and created a piece of artwork in the form of Kandinsky geometric art. They had to research numbers which could be represented in their picture from the immigration story and apply it to their picture.

Students have spent the term learning about different non-fiction texts related to food and eating. This has included food and restaurant reviews, nutritional information, the persuasive language of a business pitch, and the language of promotional materials.