LKS2 Blitz Learning! 🕵️‍♂️🕵️

27th September 2022Simon Gerrard

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

27th September 2022Ruth 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!

A great Tuesday in MI

27th September 2022Stacey McClare

MI started the day well in our challenge crew session. MI had to work together to pass around objects without making a sound. As we made progress with this, we added more objects, changed the direction in the circle and added time limits. A great sense of team work and encouragement from all.

MI have started planning their independent write today. We built our own target grids based on the features from the rubric that we had used previously in our first narrative and used the lenses too. We then used our graphic organiser well to build our own ideas. Children used post it notes to build some of their own sentences using both their target grids and graphic organiser as support. I can’t wait for children to get writing tomorrow and to read their first plot point.

LKS2 Beautiful work! 📝

22nd September 2022Simon Gerrard

LKS2 have created some Beautiful Work this week. We have been writing postcards, putting ourselves into the shoes of an evacuee. We really loved how the children used the vocabulary built up from our drama days to put into their writing. We noticed some great adjectives to describe their experiences. We loved how the children worked really hard to add feelings and emotions – these were great. The children have have critiqued each others work and edited; they have then made a best draft which they wrote up on to a postcard!

Blindfolded crew challenge

22nd September 2022Lauren Marsh

This morning Crew Marsh and Crew Robson were challenged to take their partners around a circuit with their eyes shut! I think we had some peaking eyes as the children conquered their challenge. Next week we are going to dig out the blindfolds to see how they get on!

COJO – Crew Shields

21st September 2022Ruth Shields

Yesterday, we started the new week with a COJO challenge. The children were split into 2 groups and their mission was to get their team and all their equipment from one side of the playground to the other. Sounds easy but this requires lots of listening, team work and problem solving Children were only able to stand on the spots or in a hoop, unfortunately, if you fell off, you lost a team member so very important everyone worked together.

When discussing why they hadn’t been successful, children quickly realised they’d made the gaps between the spots to big which left it difficult to move from one space to another or they needed to devise a new strategy if they were to complete the task again.

Handwriting in MI

20th September 2022Stacey McClare

MI had great handwriting session this afternoon. They thought about the work hard howl by ensuring they had a positive attitude to their learning but they also thought about the get smart howl by producing beautiful work they are proud of. MI were really engaged and are really trying hard to form all letters correctly whilst finding their own consistent style.

Challenge Crew in MI

20th September 2022Stacey McClare

A great start to the day this morning in Challenge Crew. MI took part in COJO challenges along with different team building activities. Lots of positive praise by all and a great way to start the day!