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.
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Music – Crew Marsh 15.9.22




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’.
Servants in Crew 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
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
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
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.




Arithmetic – Addition
This afternoon, Crew Shields have been working hard on their addition and remembering to exchange when needed.
Really impressed with Lacey P who has shown great resilience when working out tricky problems.

Tuesdays crew challenge
Miss Marsh decided she wanted to wake up this morning by challenging us to a water crew challenge. We had to pass the water over our shoulder to a crew member who was holding a cup. Luckily no one got wet and lose much water in the process!
Thank you Summer for the great photos.






Todays collaborative learning
Crew Mcloughlin have impressed with their HoWL scores today especially at how collaboratively they have worked. It is so lovely to see them helping each other to get smart in all lessons. 🤩



A great Monday in MI
This morning Crew MI took part in their Caring Crew where we talked about who is in our family, who loves us and why our families make us feel safe. We worked in small groups to build back up a jigsaw using a variety of different families then we discussed what we noticed about the pictures thinking about what was the same and what was different. There was some great collaborative working during this activity which was lovely to see. We then drew our families, describing characteristics about each member, what they are like, what they do and what they enjoy. We then shared these things with the rest of the crew. During our debrief, we thought about what our jobs are as a member of Crew MI and we made pledges for moving forward. Crew was fantastic this morning! Great job Crew MI 🙂






In our expeditionary learning we took part in a grammar lesson thinking about figurative language. We explored similes, metaphors, personification and hyperbole. We worked collaboratively to build our own examples linking them to space and linking to the chapter we have been unpicking in our reading lessons.


A great day in MI, our HOWL score was 3.5 🙂 Lets keep this up MI.






