Citizenship Crew 🏠🏡

24th January 2024Laura Godley

This week in Citizenship Crew we have explored how to keep safe in the home. We used our prior knowledge to unpick what dangers there are in the home and how we can work together to overcome these. We identified that mostly, our homes are safe places. However, there are some objects that can be dangerous and can cause injuries around the home. We need to be aware of the dangers and how to keep ourselves safe.

The children were very articulate and identified many hazards, including how to keep safe in the kitchen – not cooking without an adult, never touching electrical items or drinking something we maybe unsure of. We had some fantastic collaboration and group discussions.

Learning about Hanukkah in KS1

23rd January 2024Olivia Fox

Today, we continued to focus on Judaism. We were given some photos and completed a gallery walk to think about what we notice and what wonders we had.

We watched some videos to understand how Jewish people celebrate Hanukkah. We learned that they have specific food like potato cakes and doughnuts and most children receive toys called dreidls. Next week, we will design our own menorah.

We are Geographers 🌎

17th January 2024Laura Godley

Today in our expeditionary work we explored the UK and the physical and human features of a village, town and city. The children compared the geographical features and explained how and why these differed. This led to some beautiful discussions around the children’s experiences – especially those children that had visited London. The difference between Doncaster and London city, particularly the difference in population and the transport.
Aubree and Lily-Rose produced some beautiful work which we were so proud of, carefully explains the differences between human and physical features. They were defining working hard, to get smart!

Counting to a hundred 🧮

17th January 2024Laura Godley

This week, Crew Godley have started their new unit in maths, place value to 100. The children showed they were able to apply what they already knew about the number system to complete some tricky number lines. We had to think carefully if the numbers were increasing or decreasing in size ⬇️⬆️

Passover 🍲

16th January 2024Laura Godley

Today, Y2 explored Passover which is one of the most important festivals in the Jewish year. It is celebrated in Spring. We discovered that story of Passover is in the the Torah, which we looked at last week. During Passover, Jewish people remember how the Israelite people were freed from slavery by Moses over 3000 years ago. Passover is celebrated for seven or eight days. The night before passover begins, there is a special service called Seder. At the Seder meal there is a special Seder plate on the table. The Seder plate is an important part of the Seder meal, this plate has five sections to hold some special Seder foods. We created our own Seder plates to share with our grown ups at home, explains the importance of the food shared on the Seder plate.



We are mathematicians 🧮

16th January 2024Laura Godley

Today in Crew Godley we’ve been working hard to complete missing number addition in our magic maths session. We found this really tricky last week however the crew have blown me away today, showing they are getting smart by using our number facts to complete their number sentences independently.