I got to celebrate an improvement in handwriting from two wonderful pupils- Freya and Macey.
Both girls are taking pride in their work and are trying to ensure that their work is always beautiful. They also read their work aloud- it was lovely to listen to them read their work and see them feeling so proud. Some great word and phrase choices selected to keep the reader interested. You certainly had me gripped.
During maths, we’ve started learning about algebra and how to answer questions using substitution.
Check out this weeks sentence stackers from The Write Stuff sessions:
Sandra felt like she had been sitting in the pod for days. But the truth was, it was minutes.
She had been an astronaut for days however, she was not prepared for this moment. Hoping for a miracle, Sandra tried to keep herself calm as she began to press buttons. She was sweating a cold sweat. Sandra laid back on her chair hoping that God was on her side.
With the odds against her, her prayer to God was disrupted by the vibration of the plummeting space ship. Unfortunately, the shuttle was getting too unstable and Sandra couldn’t control it. In that moment, she reached for the mic and recorded a message, ready to send back to Earth. She spotted her golden Buddah, and glared at it like it was her protective guardian angel. Sandra could feel the shuttle edging closer and closer to Earth. As vigorous as an earthquake, the pod shook from side to side and dislocated from the rest of the shuttle, causing her to feel dizzy.
What a better way to end our week that with some science! In case study 3 of our expedition, we’ve used our scientific skills to investigate whether surface area effects air resistance. Crew Fox created parachutes with a range of surface areas to compare the time taken for the parachute to fall to the ground. We will collate our findings next week to check against our hypothesis.
Have a lovely extended weekend! Non-uniform on Wednesday for beating our HOWL average from last week!
Well we have had another busy week in Crew Mcloughlin, read on to see what we have been getting up to👀…
📝Out of this world writing (No pun intended)
In our Write Stuff lessons, we are narrating the ending scene of ‘gravity’. As you can see from the pics the children are on the edge of their seats writing these gripping scenes. They have blown me away with their writing so far and some of the children’s writing has been celebrated on our sentence stackers! Keep going Crew you’re all making me so proud!!!
Expedition ESA mission – Air resistance🪂
We are working on our ESA mission to investigate air resistance. We have had to work collaboratively and use our team working skills in order for this investigation to be successful. They had just 5 tokens to buy and select the resources to use… they surprised me with their great budgeting skills as I know from their stories about shopping trips at the weekend, this is not always the case😆. The children have shown great perseverance skills as many were too eager to show their design and technology skills off rather than thinking logically about our hypothesis of how surface area will affect air resistance. We have got their in the end though and loved this investigation!
and last but not least… clearly where their the most happiest by the looks of this photo… our weekly swimming lesson🏊🏼♀️
They make me beam with pride when they return from swimming. It is lovely to see how proud they are and eager to fill me in on their achievements. Keep it up!🤩
This week, in Crew Gerrard, we have been working hard on a number of things. This includes our learning, listening skills and ensuring that we follow the HoWLS.
In maths, we have been learning about decimals. We have been working hard on being able to make a whole, understand decimals to be able to compare (the tenths and hundredths) and ordering decimals. We are becoming more and more confident as we practice these, which is helping to improve our vocabulary. 😄
In writing, we have continued to work on pace. This isn’t always easy for Crew Gerrard, but we’re determined to achieve this in order to get smart! We’ve been writing about Gravity and we’re working on being able to create tension. Not only do we want interesting stories, but we also want to improve our handwriting! 😃
Singing the relative clause song!
During expedition, we have been completing experiments on gravity, air resistance and the surface area of parachutes. We’ve had to create rockets, after a letter came through from the European Space Agency (ESA). As we have been working in mini-Crews, we have had to make sure that we’re kind to on another. I’m pleased to say that I have seen this. 😀
We’re still loving our favourite time of the week and that’s swimming. You guys make me really proud when you achieve something new at the leisure centre! 😁
During the early hours of the morning 3 people entered our school grounds and caused damage to our property and premises.
They were on the premises between the hours of 11.45 and 00.45. They’ve ripped up trees planted by our pupils. Within little oaks they emptied the shed, scattering items all over the garden, they ripped down bird boxes and they climbed onto the roof.
This is the second incident in only a few weeks, before half term 6 individuals were on our school premises during the early evening running riot and ripping down signs.
This has caused upset and distress amongst our pupils and staff.
The incident has been reported to the police. Therefore we ask that if you hear anything in the community about these 3 individuals or know any information that you contact Mrs Lythe in the office.
Today was our favourite day of the week, which meant one thing: it was swimming! We have had another really fantastic and positive swimming experience. This was echoed by the swimming instructors who awarded each child 5 Work Hard HoWL points each. The praise made us feel proud. Our Swimming Super Stars were:
Sophia for showing so much confidence and wanting to challenge yourself. You are doing so well! 😀
Emily for growing in confidence. We know it’s not always easy, but you are doing such a brilliant job – keep it up! 😁
Kelby for being Mrs Gilliland’s role model, you helped your peers swimming – good going! 😃
AbigailM for always showing good listening skills and enthusiasm towards her swimming! 😄
Stay tuned next week for more Swimming Super Stars! 😆 🏊♂️🤽♂️
Today, Crew Longley were given the challenge of saving the eggs. Each crew were provided with an egg that they had to ensure crashed landed to Earth with a bump, but not a splat! The twist was that they could only use things from our junk pile, so innovation was key!
Each mini-crew worked hard to plan, co-operate, listen and help each other to create a mini parachute. Throughout the frenzied countdown, it was lovely to see all the children, working hard, getting smart and being kind. Even when things went wrong, perseverance and determination was clear to see.
We were pleased to say that only one egg was harmed in the completion of this crew challenge. 😁
In Crew Marsh today we had a lovely extended crew in the morning, this was a great chance to get to know each other better by playing two truths and a lie. It was great to spend time with the children and building our crew.
Activity 1: Ball challenge
The first challenge in our smaller crews was to get our plastic ball from one side of the classroom to the other in the quickest time with out touching it – this meant we all resorted into using our lungs!
Activity 2: Marshmallow and spaghetti challenge
Our second challenge was to create the tallest statue we could using only marshmallows and spaghetti, this was really tricky as the spaghetti kept breaking.
