Mindful yoga 🧘🏻‍♂️🧘🏼‍♀️

19th September 2023Sarah Mcglone

During crew on Monday, we talked about different ‘sad’ feelings. We discussed that not only can people feel sad, they can feel anxious, worried, frightened, upset, afraid and scared at times too. There are lots of different reasons why people might be feeling like this and we decided that we would like to think about how to make people happy and calm again and get them into the green zone. One way that could help someone feel positive again is by doing mindful yoga. We decided to give it a try ourselves and it certainly made us feel happy – look at those super smiley faces!

Show and tell crew 💕

15th September 2023Lauren Marsh

KS1 have decided that every Friday we want to hold and show and tell crew where children can share something from outside of school with their crew. It’s a great opportunity for us to get to know each other better and practise our speaking and listening skills.

Crew Shields Praise!

15th September 2023Ruth Shields

A huge well done to Crew Shields this week.

We’ve had lots more children reading at home and almost everyone has returned their homework which means I’ve been able to give out lots of raffle tickets. In addition, nearly everyone has scored 7 or more out of 10 on their spelling test. You’ve smashed it this week! Keep it up!

How does what I do, impact others?

4th September 2023Laura Godley

KS1 strengthened their crews last week by having a real focus on Crew, what does it mean to us and the wider community. Our guiding questions were, ‘How does what I do, impact others?’ and ‘Does crew stop at the school gates?’. With this in mind you’ll have noticed in our blogs last week that we delivered books and kindness stones to the local community to show kindness and care. Well…….. we were so excited to see that some of these have been found and brought joy to other children outside of our school community. The children were so excited to see this in morning crew today 😊

Cracking Crew

2nd September 2023Ruth Shields

Wow! It’s been an amazing day as Crew Shields took part in a full day of Scotty’s heroes.

The children started the day off taking part in a murder mystery. They had to find clues to allow them to open the chests so they could discover the victim and the murderer. Throughout the task, children had to use their communication skills and make inferences from the information they’d been given. They learned that if they were to complete the task again that it’s about taking your time and processing the information. Well done to the second group that pretty much cracked the case.

Then they had to solve the mystery of the stolen sweets. Outside, children had to play detective to find the missing sweets. We had an evidence officer and another officer who marked the evidence found on the map. Children had to work slowly and carefully to find the evidence and report to the evidence officer. By marking it on the map, they could track the movements of the sweet thief. As with the previous task, they reflected that they needed to slow down and be methodical in their search methods. Added bonus they’ve been given the sweets to share next week. 😊

Next, children spent time in the forest where they had to get a fire going and keep it burning. Once the fire was going, they had to boil water to purify it. This required lots of team work as some children needed to find fuel for the fire while others kept it going. One team was successful and got their water boiling.

The day ended with a recon operation. Children had to observe an enemy camp and they replicate it using the same equipment. They had a certain length of time to look and go back to their own camp. Throughout the time they were given further opportunities to check the camp so they could ensure theirs was correct. 1 team did a great job of replicating the enemy camp and this was due to their great observational and communication skills. They were able to allocate certain areas to each person so they had a small area to focus on.

It’s been a great day and one I feel the children have taken a lot from. When we completed our debrief of the day, they were able to articulate that they were successful by working together. That communication, cooperation and patience were important skills for today. It was also lovely to be able to observe the children in a range of activities and get a real feel for how they work with each other.