This week, Crew Mcloughlin have been busy writing their diary entry independently. They are writing from a 10 year olds girls perspective in 1963, who’s dad has made her attend Martin Luther Kings speech that morning. All children have thoroughly planned, used the learning environment to effectively support them and produced beautiful work in the process. I think this is our best writing yet and I cannot wait to share the final redrafts next week!
In citizenship crew this week we have been focusing on different strengths and employability skills. We used the idea of a human knot and then discussed what skills we used during the activity: the children mentioned communication, teamwork, leadership and problem solving. We explored other skills like enthusiasm and ability to take critique which they displayed too.
We debriefed why we thought these skills would be important to an employer and identified employability skills we already had. Crew Mcloughlin are really showing maturity when exploring careers related learning and it lovely to see them all having dreams and ambition 🤩
We ended celebrating this week by Crew Mcloughlin and MI reading to Y3/4 children. Y6 were so excited to share their recent setting description and diary’s that they had written; we felt like real authors! It was lovely to see so many kind words of praise from the younger children (not so much between siblings 😬). Y3/4 praised our beautiful handwriting, how thought out and detailed our writing was and even voted some children to be hoWL hero. All the Y6 children thought it was an amazing experience and have said we should do it again!
Another day, another activity packed break time in UKS2. We really appreciate having an endless choice of activities at break times: we love participating in a football match, perfecting our aims in the basketball hoop, scooting, skipping with friends or playing bat and ball, balancing on the trim trail or just having a good chat on the bench 😊
Crew Robson and Crew Welburn ended National Story Telling Week by sharing stories together in Crew Welburn this morning. The Year 2 children came down to Crew Welburn with some of their favourite stories to share and read them to our foundation children. Thank you for coming Crew Robson, we really enjoyed having you!
Crew Godley have worked really hard this morning to develop their gross motor skills. We used our muscles we’ve been exploring in expedition to move across the trim trail.
Crew Godley shared some our favourite stories with Crew McGone today. It was so lovely to see our younger children showing kindess and respect to each other. We all demonstrated lovely listening skills 📚🥰 and we can’t wait to return next week 🥰
Today, we have started our writing unit for Case study 2 which will involve a setting description for the ’I have a dream’ speech by Martin Luther King.
We have spent time today starting to use the lens to generate ideas for aspects we could write about and some ideas for figurative language. In our next lesson, we’ll be starting to put these ideas into complete sentences so we have had practice and opportunities to magpie from our peers.
This morning in reading, we’ve enjoyed playing imposter.
During the game, the children had to find either the antonym or synonym that matched their word. This really got the children’s brains working as some of the words are words they may not use day to day. I was very impressed with how they completed the activity because they moved around sensibly, used great communication until they found their matching word and we found the imposter (word without a match).
