As part of crew today, we discussed how it is healthy eating week and what this means to us. We came up with some fantastic ways to eat healthy such as eating a balanced diet and making sure we have our 5 a day! We created a design for a lorry that inspires people to enjoy healthy, sustainable food. 🍇🍌
Today our challenge crew was to follow a simple instruction: “build a tower of shoes”. After enthusiasm saw multiple towers, we worked together to build one taller tower which we then measured. The question is, can we do better next time? And before you ask, we took it outside to enjoy the weather, not because of the smell! 😉
This morning, we started our school week by developing our staff crew. At XP Trust we work hard to build crew with our pupils but also within our staff team too. We started the week talking about the highlight of our weekend with staff from other phases as we don’t often get enough time to mingle across phases.
Then we paired up and played the communication game. We had to describe the picture in front of us to our partner who could not see it. We thought carefully about our use of language and how to explain things to our partner so that they would understand. We managed a quick debrief to discuss what barriers we faced when completing the activity before dashing off to greet our crews ready for another fun filled week.
It was a lovely start to the week, with lots of smiles all round.
In crew, we completed an assault course in our outdoor area. We absolutely LOVED IT!
As part of our music case study, the children have been given the opportunity to write their favourite song on a piece of paper and place it in a cup.
During our end of dy crew, we choose a song, listen and then decide whose favourite song it might be. We definitely know some of our crew well as we’ve managed to guess who it belongs to.
We’re looking forward to hearing all the rest of the songs over the next few weeks.
This morning it was the turn of Esme to share her interests out of school. Esme, just like Kaitlynn, regularly attends dancing comps and dances in different styles. She was going to show us some tap dancing but she changed her mind.
Lovely to see all the talent Crew Shields have.
On Thursday morning, we continued with a crew member showing some of their talents.
It was the turn of Kaitlynn who is an avid dancer. She often takes parts on comps and shares her successes the us.
After Kaitlynn showcased her talent, the question of the day was: Does Kaitlynn even have a spine? What do you think?
This morning in crew we had the pleasure of viewing the art work of Kaylum and we have decided that children will have more opportunities to share their interests with us.
Kaylum is a budding artist and often brings in stuff for our tabletop display. He has brought in his sketchbook from home today and we are truly blown away. I’m sure you will as well.
We have set Kaylum a challenge – Can he create us a sign for our door that says Crew Shields surrounded by images that reminds him of people in the crew. Watch this space…
