This afternoon, Crew Shields have been working hard on their addition and remembering to exchange when needed.
Really impressed with Lacey P who has shown great resilience when working out tricky problems.
Arithmetic – Addition
Category : Crew Shields 22/23
Music – Year 5/6
We started our musical learning journey this week by listening to and appraising a piece of music by composer Gustav Holst, that was created to represent the character of the planet Mars. We discussed the instruments used, the tempo and dynamics of the piece before thinking about how Holst used all these elements to portray the characteristics of war usually associated with Mars.
Day and night / Phases of the moon
It’s been very busy today as the children have been exploring why we have day and night before recreating the phases of the moon.
During the practical lesson, the children were able to recreate the rotation of the earth on it’s axis and we used torches for the sun. While they completed this task, it helped them understand day and night and why our shadows move throughout the day.
After lunch, the children discovered more about the phases of the moon and were able to recreate each stage. Of course, it was made even better when they could eat the moon at the end.
PE – Crew Shields
It has been an active morning in Crew Shields as we have taken part in both Scotty’s Heroes and Active Fusion. As always PE can be an area that pushes children out of their comfort zones but they showed great resilience, which is what we want to develop as we go through Year 5.
Huge well done to Izzy who was selected as Hero of the Week.
Listening – Crew Shields
This morning in Crew we have had a big focus on developing our listening skills. Children were given instructions which they had to follow but to keep things interesting we then swapped what they had to do. For example – walk meant stop, stop meant walk, clap meant shout their name and name meant to clap.
This definitely highlighted that our listening skills will have to be a big focus over the next few weeks.
UKS2 Fieldwork that was out of this world 🚀
Y5 and Y6 were able to visit the National Space Centre on Wednesday where we had time to explore all the different interactive galleries and the UKs largest planetarium. The children had the opportunity to see shuttles, rockets, space suits and even a real piece of the moon.
During the day, they were able to read lots of information which then allowed them to answer some questions around our second case study for this expedition focusing on forces.
We also took part in a workshop all about the Sun, Earth and Moon. We took part in a quiz then took part in a practical activity around how we get day and night and seasons. Afterwards, they explored the phases of the moon and then produced a turn wheel to help them remember each phase.
Every child displayed awesome HoWLs and they really did themselves and school proud. This fieldwork has really hooked us in to our learning and we cannot wait to get started learning even more about our expedition!
