Today in KS1 we started the science case study of our expedition. We started by completing a blast off and KWL chart about different materials before working in our crews to sort lots of different materials by their properties. Well done KS1, you impressed us all with your knowledge!
We started our day with our caring crew. Here we continued to think about families and people who care for us. We started to discuss how we can support our families. We discussed some of our favourite memories then we worked as a crew to build our own acrostic poem about family. Finally we worked independently to create our own. We shared these as part of our debrief.
During reading, we started to learn about forces. We used lots of strategies to develop our fluency then worked collaboratively during our book talk session.
In writing we used the planning we had built last week to write PP2 of our independent write. Some great writing by all 🙂 A great day MI 🙂
Today, we have started to use our magnetic boards to blend sounds in to words and read them! We were very excited to have a go, and had very proud faces when we realised how smart we were getting. Miss Welburn is so impressed at how well we are all doing with our reading!
On Friday, LKS2 had a carrousel of activities, which enabled the children to experience rationing, as if we were transported back in time to the Second World War. With Mrs Elmer, the children were able to create their own ration books and understand the importance they played in feeding the country. In Miss Flaherty’s session, children were busy being bakers – they made and baked their own bread. Finally, in Mr Gerrard’s group, children were completing a taste test of different foods that fed Britain during the Second World War. Children were either pleased to be eating spam, corned beef, crackers, tinned fruit and rice pudding, or for a number, they were not!
This week in arithmetic we have gone from fearing division to confidently leading our own learning and completing lots of division questions, and even getting them correct 🤩 Then Miss Mcloughlin moved our learning on by challenging us with long division (we used coin method to help us with our times tables to work these division questions out). Very proud moment when the Crew had reflected on their achievements and challenged themselves even further! We’re Getting Smart Crew!
We have openly admitted this morning in celebration crew that we haven’t been going on TTrockstars or trying to improve our timetable knowledge at home, this really will help us with every aspect of arithmetic in Y6 and beyond!
Today we started our independent write, we worked collaboratively to ensure we all had amazing ideas to include in our writing. We now know the purpose and importance of planning and this really helped us stay engaged. I cannot wait to read these and hopefully appear on our beautiful work display 🤩
An interesting object appeared in Crew Welburn’s outdoor area this week…it took us a little bit of time to investigate what it was, and what we could use it for, but as soon as we worked it out, we had so much fun! We worked really well as a crew to push, pull and take turns riding on the trolly around the outdoor area! We couldn’t wait to get back out today to have another turn!
We had a great start to the day this morning when we worked across all of the year 6 crews to do maths. We were looking at the methods for short and long division. We worked really well with one another by helping and supporting each other with these tricky questions.
As part of Expedition, LKS2 generated questions to ask their experts about life during the Second World War. This is in order to better understand how war changes lives. The experts are extra special to Mrs Lewins and Mr Gerrard, as they are grandparents to each.
The excitement from the children was amazing to see, with lots of fantastic questions being asked. We generated a list in which all the children contributed a question to ask these special experts. The engagement was fantastic and we know these experts will share lots of amazing knowledge about their lives during the Second World War!
Imagine what it would be like to be at the top of the Feudal system ordering the peasants around! The KS1 children had this opportunity and took great delight in creating the ‘rules’ for the afternoon. The children took great delight in setting the rules and ordering their crew leaders to be at their beck and call. it was interesting to whip-round and ask children where they would have felt most comfortable in the feudal system, some preferred the craftsmen role and some even doing the the work when they took on the role of the peasants.
