Yesterday morning, we had a crew Challenge where we partnered up. One partner had to give the instructions while the other drew based on the instructions.
When we debriefed, the crew said they found things challenging because of not being able to hear, instructions not being clear or not knowing what they meant. Despite the final images, the crew really enjoyed this activity as you’ll be able to tell from their faces in the pictures.
Some great collaborative working during our reading lesson today. Children worked with their partner to read part of our reading text then answer book talk questions. They shared their thoughts and listened to the opinions of others 🙂
Such a great first day back in Crew MI 🙂 We started our day with an extended crew discussing our summer breaks. This involved lots of funny stories and we all laughed a lot! We then talked about expectations, linking to HOWLS and discussed handwriting and presentation expectations in lots of detail. We will be building on HOWLS throughout the week thinking about each small step a little more. We then took part in lots of team building activities which again made us laugh but we all showed great communication skills and worked well together.
We then moved into some maths learning, recapping some arithmetic skills before moving onto place value. We thought about the value of the digits in numbers with up to 8 digits, reading and writing them. We worked collaboratively with our partner, giving support where needed. From here we applied what we had just looked at to a variety of games. We enjoyed competing against each other!
After break we started to look into our new expedition. We thought about if the earth is flat or spherical and all took part in a debate voicing our thoughts and opinions on this topic. We also watched clips to give us more information on this area. We then started to think about space and the planets. We recapped any existing knowledge, watched clips to build further knowledge then started to create our own slides on some of the planets. We also started to create our own paper mache models on some of the planets.
Welcome back Crew MI, what a great year we have ahead 🙂
PE days are Wednesdays and Fridays 🙂
I can’t believe that we have come to the end of another Expedition and completed another fantastic final product. Our expedition for this term was ”How can a healthy lifestyle impact our body and mind?” We completed a history, science and DT case study. These subjects allowed us to explore how medicine has changed, the circulatory system and our cooking and baking skills. The children marvelled at the weird and wonderful things used to treat illnesses during the plague. They were even given the opportunity to gain a basic first aid certificate. During DT, they loved cooking and especially the tasting of the food. The children have been fortunate to have lots of opportunities to do hands on learning.
Our final product was to create an informative video for the public and as this was a trust product, we were all given a section to complete. Carcroft were allocated the mental health section of the video and I know this is a topic we spend lots of time on as we understand the importance of good mental health.
At the moment, we have been unable to confirm where this video will be played on a permanent basis but this is being discussed and negotiated. Once this has been confirmed, we will ensure that we inform you of this.
We hope you enjoy our Mental Health video for our final product
What a great year it has been and what a wonderful day to end it with. Today, we have been practising our dance moves…
Thank you for all of our lovely presents. We have loved teaching all of you this year and hope that you have a fantastic summer. We shall see you all again in year 6 in September!
Mrs Ibbotson and Mrs McClare.
To thank the children for all their hard work this year, the Year 5 staff crew treated them to an afternoon of pizza and fun on the field. Mr Boswell and Mr Ibbotson very kindly brought in their pizza ovens, made the dough and prepared to make pizza to feed 50 children and of course the staff. I’m sure all the children would agree that they were delicious and much more enjoyable than a bar of chocolate.
The year 5 staff crew have been absolutely blown away by how hard the children have worked this year and all they have achieved. We know they will continue to achieve amazing things in year 6.
This morning Crew MI shared their final product from their expeditionary learning with parents. Thank you so much to all the parents that joined us, I know the children loved sharing the product with you along with all the work they had produced from the summer expedition. We are all super proud of what everyone has achieved this term. We also celebrated the children who have managed to get their work on display this term, some fantastic work produced.
Don’t forget our end of Year Family Picnic on Thursday 21st July at 1pm.
GATES WILL OPEN AT 12.45PM TO ENSURE THERE ISN’T A SURGE OF PEOPLE QUEUING AT 1PM. CLASSROOM DOORS WILL SHUT AND GATES WILL BE LOCKED AT 1.15PM TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF OUR CHILDREN. CHILDREN WILL BE SIGNED OUT OF CLASS OVER TO THEIR RESPONSIBLE ADULT BEFORE THEY ATTEND THE PICNIC.
Please bring a picnic and a blanket (no alcohol, vapes, smoking or dogs permitted on site). All children who usually have a dinner including the children who normally have packed lunches and have paid for a dinner will be provided with the lunch that they have ordered to bring out to the picnic. All other children should bring their packed lunch as usual.
The Y6 leavers parade will take place at 2.30pm. If you wish to leave and come back for this you are more than welcome to do so.
We hope to see you all there!
This afternoon we used the poster we had created around the anti bullying slogan ‘words can hurt more than you know’ to create a piece of art work. We tried really hard to use sketching techniques on our art work. We showed a great positive attitude and great resilience by continuing to try when we found things difficult. Here are some examples of our work…
