This week in Crew Mcloughlin…

17th September 2022Hannah McLoughlin

In Crew this week, we started to celebrate the Queens life. Various facts about the Queen were outside of the classroom. Children worked in mini crews, one being the researcher (they had to nip outside, read the information and bring facts back.) They shared this will another crew member who added this to their paper. In our debrief, we shared the facts we had gathered about the Queens life and discussed the importance of doing this.

In Citizenship Crew, we were targeting certain gender stereotypes in different careers. The children were asked to draw a soldier and name them (without given the purpose of this activity). Children were then asked to watch a video clip around gender stereotypes. It opened our eyes up to see that out of 17 drawings, only one was drawn as a girl. In our debrief, we shared our own career ambitions and how gender shouldn’t guide this.

In celebration Friday crew, we chose work we were proud of and placed these on our desks for all to see. We then did a gallery walk of our beautiful work(hoping it would be framed in the Beautiful Work display, which is yet to be confirmed). Brooklyn won for most improved handwriting this week!

We have had a busy week of working hard in our Reading, Writing and Expedition lessons. We have blown Miss away with our narrative writing! Our HoWLs are also really improving and we are reflecting everyday to become even better! 🤩

Lots of focus this morning in EYFS and KS1

16th September 2022Olivia Fox

EYFS Crew were showing good listening in their crew circle. It was lovely to meet your ‘Everywhere Bear’.

Y2’s were showing how they can get smart by working independently whilst Miss Robson was working with a group on the carpet… who were also really focused. Super maths work today.

Y1’s were all participating with counting forwards and backwards in Crew Marsh. Great work!

Super HOWLs everyone 😀

Positive Post its – Crew Shields

16th September 2022Ruth Shields

This morning in Crew we had come positive post it time. Children were given a name of another child in their crew and they had to praise them for something they’d done this week. This ensured that all crew members were praised and recognised for the things they properly do without even thinking. It was so lovely to hear the things they had said about each other such as, being mature, being resilient, always trying their best, being funny, helping each other when they are stuck or even during football. There were definitely lots of smiles during our Crew session this morning.

Music – Crew Marsh 15.9.22

15th September 2022Sarah Mcglone

Today in music we have continued to look at making beats with our percussion instruments. We started off by working with a partner to create patterns and then repeat them back to one another. We then started to learn our new song ’I Wanna Be In A Band’.

Crew Bear in Nursery.

15th September 2022Toni Ferguson

Today the children in crew nursery have made their own crew bear. We lovingly stuffed him and made sure we placed a loving heart inside. Each crew member will get the opportunity to take the bear home and have wonderful adventures. We cant wait to read all about what he gets up to.

Servants in Crew Marsh

15th September 2022Lauren Marsh

In Crew Marsh as part of our castle learning and to answer ’what lies within the castle walls?’ We learnt about servants and their job role.

We completed the following jobs:

  • collected fire wood
  • cleaned tables
  • served food and drink
  • followed instructions

Hockey – Crew Shields

14th September 2022Ruth Shields

Crew Shields have been working well in PE today as they worked on their sportsmanship. It was lovely to see them working together and encouraging each other. We have been working on listening skills so it was great to see them following the instructions carefully. Good job Crew!

An active start in MI

14th September 2022Stacey McClare

This morning in crew, we started to think about the Queens life. Different facts about the Queen were scattered outside of the classroom. Children worked in mini crews, one being the researcher (they had to nip outside, read the information and bring a fact back.) They shared this will another crew member who added this to their sugar paper. This process continued with everyone taking a role in the task. In our debrief, we shared the facts we had gathered about the Queens life and discussed the importance of doing this.

Setting descriptions in MI

13th September 2022Stacey McClare

Today MI created their own setting description linking to the work we have been doing in expedition. We imagined that we were one of the first people to land on the moon and used the feelings lens for support. We applied our learning from our experience day and grammar day and used our anchor charts to support our ideas. We really thought about our get smart howl by reflecting on our achievements and challenging ourselves to improve after critique. We also used our target grids well for support.