After a busy morning learning patterns and phonics in Crew Haigh today – we were very excited to finish the day with a visit to the bounty castle.
Bouncing into summer term
Category : Crew
World Book Day Fun
Pupils enjoyed an interactive world book day in Crew Haigh, we shared book, sensory stories and especially enjoyed making sandwiches for our tea party
Goldilocks – Writing, Sharing, Exploring and more…
The pupils in Crew Haigh have enjoyed their latest story; Goldilocks And The Three Bears. Sensory story props, making porridge and edible bears (which we obviously loved!) all whilst developing those important motor skills that will help develop our writing – some superb communication and sharing too!
Challenge Crew
In today’s challenge crew, Crew Hamill had to work as a team to pass a beach ball around crew circle without using their hands. After a few troubleshooting ideas, they first decided to use their elbows and this was successful! After this, they were challenged to find another way. They tried with their knees but found this much trickier and ended up using their feet.
Scotty’s Heroes
Crew Hamill had so much fun going out into our forest area to complete our next Scotty’s session. This session focused on creating a shelter that we would be able to protect ourselves from the elements in! We worked in mini crews to use the equipment given to create a space that we could hide from the rain. We then looked at what we could put inside our shelter to make it more comfortable! Well done to Kira and Taylor who earned Scotty’s Heroes this week due to their stewardship for packing away the equipment another crew had left behind!
Litter Picking
Crew Hamill have been out in the school playground to show our stewardship and we’ve worked hard to pick up some of the litter that has been floating around!
RSHE Crew
Last week, Crew Hamill were focusing on how we can recognise and talk about our emotions. As part of this lesson, we discussed facial expressions and how these helped us to decide how someone might be feeling. As a crew activity, we decided to take part in a random act of kindness that we could use to spread a little happiness around school to hopefully help others feel more positive emotions. For this, we created some bookmarks which we have placed in the school library for people to take and use when they are reading for pleasure. We hope that these will bring a smile to some people’s faces!
Crew building – group artwork
To continue our crew building this week, Crew McGlone have worked really hard as a crew to create a piece of artwork. We discussed how it would take 1 person a really long time to decorate the large piece of paper on their own, but if we all helped as a crew to do a little section each then it would be done much quicker. We split the paper into sections and got to work! If a section was finished, we offered to help other members of our crew with their section – continuing to work as a unit to finish our final piece. We really like our finished piece and praise how section comes together to create a lovely pattern.
Crew building!
With it being our first week back after the Christmas holidays, we have been looking at building our crew and having fun with our friends in Crew McGlone. We talked about being kind to one another and how we can do this when we are playing with toys and games in our classroom. We said that you have to talk using kind words, use kind hands, share and take turns. We put these skills into practise by playing with our friends – we played games such as Pop-Up Pirate and Shopping List, as well as building structures using magnetic tiles! It was extremely fun and we were showing really strong HOWLs – especially ‘Be Kind’.
Visit to Santa!
Crew Hamill loved their visit to Santa yesterday and we didn’t let the Grinch scare us. (Well, not too much!) How lovely to receive a gift each – some of us have started reading them already! 🙂
Scotty’s Heroes
Crew Hamill were very lucky on Friday and were able to take part in an extra Scotty’s session which focused on survival skills. We carefully followed instructions to use a flint and steel to create fire! We began by learning how to use the flint and steel properly to create sparks and then used this to set a piece of cotton wool on fire. Once we’d mastered this skill, we added some vaseline to our cotton wool balls and set them alight again. This time, they burned for longer and create a flame! We had SO much fun!
Children In Need – Pie Time!
To celebrate Children In Need, everyone who came to school and made a donation was able to take part in splatting Titch in the face with a whipped cream ‘pie’! It’s safe to say, everyone had fun! Even some of the adults joined in!
World Kindness Day
Crew Hamill really enjoyed taking part in the interactive World Kindness Day assembly last week. We were really inspired by the stories we were told by the host and we have used this to reflect on our Be Kind HoWL. We have created ‘Kindness Balloons’ in our crew and will be adding a balloon every time someone does something kind. We’re hoping to have enough to make our house fly, like in Up! We also completed kindness tickets in which we wrote a note to someone who was important to us, explaining why we thought they were amazing.
