We had such a lovely Christmas dinner yesterday! We even had a special visitor 🎅🏻 We were very excited and really enjoyed our delicious food 😃
Christmas Dinner Day
Category : Crew Welburn 22/23
Celebration of Learning
Crew Welburn invited our parents in today to celebrate all of the learning we have carried out in our expedition ‘How do we care for bears?’. We had a wonderful teddy bears picnic, shared our learning with our adults, showed them how to print bears using different objects, and got to share our video of Goldilocks and the Three Bears with them. We had lots of fun and were very proud of everything we have achieved this term!
World Cup Blog
Dear parents and carers,
As I am sure many of you are aware, the world cup is fast approaching. We know that there is controversy surrounding the hosts of this and that there are some issues regarding Qatar. Many of our students are asking whether we will be watching the England match next week. The purpose of this letter is to clarify our position around the controversy and what we intend to do with students to support their education in regards to this.
It is important that we share the concern regarding the ongoing human rights record in Qatar. As a school, we have activism as a pillar of our curriculum and know it is important that as citizens of the UK we support our pupils in learning how to respectfully fight for what they believe is right. At the heart of our education, we teach our pupils the importance of having choice and valuing the choices they have in the UK.
We will have special crew sessions next week planned to ensure that pupils are aware, at their sensitive level of understanding, of what the controversy is about and we are using this as an opportunity to continue to develop children’s understandings of British Values.
On Tuesday 29th November, school will have a non uniform day where children can come dressed in their football/England shirts, however this is not essential as we understand some parents may be opting out of watching the World Cup this year.
Fun in provision
We’ve had so much fun in provision this morning! The boys really impressed Miss Welburn in the construction area by using the mobile to build models. They followed their instructions and perservered when they were finding it challenging and did not give up! Have a look at some of their creations…
Over lunch time, we explored how to make our own bubble wands. It was a little bit tricky trying to keep our fingers from popping the bubbles, but we got there in the end! Keep up the fantastic work Crew Welburn!
F2 – Poppy Fork Painting
In Crew Welburn we used our fork painting skills to create pictures of poppies for Remembrance Day. We started by using our forks to print an outline of a poppy flower before using the same printing skills to fill in the middle to create the red petals. After that, we used a round pot to draw around to create a black circle that we then cut it out using scissors. To finish, we glued the black circle in the middle of our flower to create the centre of the poppy. The finished products look absolutely beautiful, I am sure you will agree!
Autumn Fun!
What a fun day we’ve had in Crew Welburn! We’ve learnt all about being kind to wildlife in crew and made bird feeders to help the birds over winter. In provision, we explored leaf showers, swept our outdoor area to make it nice and safe, and created a whizzing rollercoaster from our pull along trolly! It has been lovely to hear all of the children laughing and sharing kind words in our crew today 🥰
Phonics workshop follow up
Thank you to all of the parents who made it to the phonics workshop today – it was lovely to see so many of you! Here’s the video to support how to say the sounds to support your children at home. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to speak to me ☺️
Leading our own learning in provision
We’ve had lots of fun leading our own learning in provision today! We’ve explored using the paints to create bear pictures, built castles in the small world area, and explored the shaving foam in the tuff tray! We used our describing words to talk about how the foam felt and what it reminded us of. Penelope and Aubree decided that when you squeezed it between your fingers, it felt like the oozy mud from the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. We then decided to use the shaving foam to make patterns to show each other the types of fireworks we had seen over the weekend. It was very exciting!
Halloween Fun! 🎃
This afternoon we discovered a pumpkin in our tuff tray! We asked Miss Welburn to cut a hole in the top so that we could explore what was on the inside…we found lots of slimy, gloopy, gooey pulp to squish between our hands! We also discovered lots of pumpkin seeds inside which we saved to see if new pumpkins will grow from when we plant them outside!
Perfecting our porridge!
This week in Crew Welburn, we are focussing on the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We read in the story that the bears were making porridge for their breakfast, and wondered what this tasted like. We got to work straight away making Mummy Bear’s sweet porridge, Daddy Bear’s plain porridge, and Baby Bear’s porridge that was just right. We had a vote at the end and we decided that most of us preferred Mummy Bear’s sweet porridge! 🥣🐻
