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Nursery hook week – Tasting fruit and making fruit kebabs 🍇🍈🍌🫐

9th January 2023Sarah Mcglone

This morning in Crew McGlone, we had a fruit tasting session! We tried a number of different fruits: banana, grapes, melon, nectarines and blueberries. We noticed that some of the fruits were juicy, some were even a little bit slippery and kept jumping out of our fingers! We worked on talking to our peers using full sentences by saying which fruit was our most favourite and which was our least favourite.

In provision we chose our favourite fruits to add to our wooden skewer to make a fruit kebab. We had to be really careful with the pointed end of the skewer and we tried really hard to concentrate so that the fruit went on and did not fall off.

Then came the best part… snack time! We got to enjoy our kebabs with milk at snack time. We talked about whether our kebabs were tasty or not and what our favourite bit was to eat! There was even spare fruit that we got to share between us as an extra treat! Yummy! 😋

Writing experience lesson – we built a bridge!

9th January 2023Lauren Marsh

For our next plot point in our writing we are describing a bridge and an oboe playing duck called Roady.

Crew MI- Science investigations

9th January 2023Emily Ibbotson

Last week, Crew MI learnt all about light. We investigated how light travels and learnt that it travels in straight lines. We explored what would happen if we blocked the light if we moved cardboard. Here are some of our fantastic science reports.

Crew MI- making a periscope

9th January 2023Emily Ibbotson

We had great fun learning about how light travels and how we can use a periscope to look around corners. We enjoyed exploring how light reflects off the mirrors into our eyes so we can see.

Our First Week Back

8th January 2023Matthew Boswell

It’s been a busy first week back but we’ve managed to have a lot of fun too. Watch our weekly roundup for just a snippet of the things that we’ve been doing!

News Broadcast

6th January 2023Ruth Shields

During Hook week, the children had to produce a short broadcast on a news topic of their choice. They completed some research and wrote their own script. When this was complete, they practiced before videoing their broadcast.

Consider the short length of time they had to complete this, I feel they did a great job. There were 20 raffle tickets each for the group that were voted the best. The group that won were voted the best as they had really thought about the process and features they have seen in real broadcasts.

You can access the video by using the QR code. Happy viewing.

Interviews for ambassador

6th January 2023Ruth Shields

This week, we shortlisted some children for the role of School Ambassadors after they had completed an application form which stated why they were suitable for the role.

The candidates were shortlisted and sent home with 4 questions that they would be asked in the interview. They could prepare their answer and then we asked these questions in Crew.

It was lovely to heat them talk so positively about school and how one child described crew as a family who is always there for them.

We appointed 4 ambassadors and a reserve encase anyone is ever absent. Their training will start next week with Mrs Rhodes so they are confident taking on this role.

Huge well done Ambassadors.

KS1 Book bags

6th January 2023Lauren Marsh

Just a reminder, please can you unsure book bags are brought into school everyday and their books will be changed every Friday. We are wanting to monitor how many times children are reading at home and celebrate those children who are doing this 4 times.

Thank you in advance

KS1 team 🙂