The children LOVED their music session today! We rocked out to the beat of some iconic tunes, looking the composure, beat and tone. We can’t wait for next week!
Magical Music in KS1
Category : Crew Blogs
Say it, Write it, make it and partition it – 29/9/22
Today in Maths, we have spent time on ensuring we are secure with place value of numbers up to one million. This involved us saying the number, writing it in words, making it on a place value grid and partitioning it. This is an area we have found difficult at times so it was important to take the time and practice this.
Arithmetic work in Crew MI
We have worked really hard this morning practising our method for short division. We began the lesson by answering a hinge question which then helped to guide us on what questions we needed to answer and if we needed some support. We got smart and challenged ourselves. Bring on that arithmetic paper!!
Enjoying tomatoes in Crew Nursery.
In nursery we have fruit and vegetables everyday. We always talk about why we need to eat different foods to stay healthy.
Today we tried tomatoes. All the children held a small tomato and used their senses to explore the fruit.
“It’s very juicy” said Harlow. “It’s cold and hard” said Lucas. Poor Archie smushed his onto his legs and found lots of seeds. All the children were encouraged to take a bite. We praised Keenan who reluctantly held and tried his.
Finding grammatical features in Y6
Today, we were unpicking a quality model of excellence and finding our Y6 gold and green standards within the writing. We worked collaboratively to find the different features and discuss why they made the model of writing green standard!
LKS2 Ration Plates! 🥬🍞🥚
Today, LKS2 looked into the consequences of rationing and how it worked. As part of answering our Guiding Question, How does war change lives?, LKS2 looked into the sharing of food during the Second World War. We learned that, due to rationing, the enemy tried to make us starve so that we gave up and surrendered. We learned that chocolate, much to our dismay, would only last a week. Despite this, there were many positives! Rationing stopped us from starving and we actually became healthier as a result of the food eaten!
Expedition in Crew Welburn
This week in expedition, we focussed on the story ‘The Everywhere Bear’ and looked at the question, ‘How do we care for bears?’. We started looking at how bears are made in factories. Miss Welburn then showed us that we had our very own Everywhere Bear for Crew Welburn. We worked together to carefully stuff his stuffing into his arms, legs, head and tummy, then we added in his hearts for love and kindness, and finally, we velcroed him up. We even had a little Carcroft School t-shirt for him so that he really is part of our crew!
Challenging Ourselves in Crew
We all know we’ll face challenges in our daily lives so in crew sessions, we’re looking at how we respond to challenges and what strategies we can use to overcome them. Our latest challenge was to create a paper plane in 3 minutes. Although the success of the planes varied, we all showed great teamwork, collaboration and resilience and are developing our understanding of how we can apply these skills when we face academic challenges. Great work!
LKS2 Blitz Learning! 🕵️♂️🕵️
LKS2 have had an amazing day, learning all about The Blitz. We have used various sources to learn about what The Blitz was, why it happened and how it happened. We have done notices and wonders around pictures, watched video clips, built anchor charts, read some information texts and made fact files. LKS2 really do know How War Affects Lives. Keep up the amazing work, crews.
We have all created a wide variety of posters to show off this learning today and it is lovely to see so much beautiful work from Year 3 and 4. We also found it particularly interesting that during the Blitz, Buckingham Palace was bombed twice!
What a great start to the week, LKS2! 😆
Memory Challenge – Crew Shields
This morning in Crew, Mrs Rhodes tested our memory. There were 2 packs of cards turned upside down on the floor and then we had to work in groups to find the most pairs.
It took us some time to realise we needed to ensure the rest of our group could see the cards we turned over and that we needed to use our voices to help each other. Great way to get our brains kicked started after a 4 day weekend. Good job everyone!
