This morning we all took part in caring crew where we started to look at happiness and what this means to us. We all shared our thoughts with each other and challenged others to explain our ideas further. We then looked at a variety of happiness cards and we ordered them looking at which things make us the most happy to the things that make us the least happy. We discussed why we placed them where. From here, we thought about our top 3 happiness cards as a crew.
Category : Crew Blogs
Caring Crew (8.7.22) 🤔
Today, LKS2 have completed their caring Crew activity. They were asked to think about something they couldn’t live without and then draw it. It was interesting to see what the children couldn’t live without, which ranged from Nintendo Switches to school to families. Check out some of our images below:
LKS2 independent writing planning (7.3.22)📝
Today, LKS2 started planning their independent writing plot points, based on the book The Polar Bear Explorers Club. Today, we drew what we thought would happen in the plot point and then we acted it out. After completing that, we then looked through the different lenses to be able to jot down vocabulary ready to use in our independent writing. We can’t wait to write and read them!
Crew MI designers!
Crew MI started case study three today in their expedition learning. Today we thought more about our final product and how we want this to look. We started our first draft designing our photo frame. We thought about the measurements needed and angles of each corner. We also thought about decorations we may add to our designs. Towards the end of the lesson we all took part in a gallery walk where we had a look at everyone else’s work. We thought about if the designs were fit for purpose and if measurements would work. We offered some critique around praises, notices and wonders. We will be building on this tomorrow.
World Book Day! 📚
What an amazing day in Crew Nursery! We have loved seeing all of your fantastic costumes, some of us even got to dress up twice!
We have had so much fun talking about our favourite stories, looking at different books and drawing pictures of ‘The Gingerbread Man’.
Evolution – how have birds changed over time?
During Science, the crew had an opportunity to explore the evolution of birds beak to further understand why plants and animals have to evolve so they can survive. The children wrote a hypothesis about which beak they thought would be better before experimenting with different beak types. They really enjoyed this and most children were able to articulate why birds beaks have had to evolve over time.
Writing – knowledge building
This week, the children have watched some videos regarding deforestation, importance of trees and the impact on animals and plants. To say I was blown away by the crew work that happened during this session would be an understatement. All the crew gathered facts during the video and then consulted with each other to ensure they weren’t being repetitive with their facts. To see the children work so effortlessly as a crew was a pleasure.
World Book Day – Crew Shields
It was lovely to see the children dressed as their favourite characters. The year 5 children supported our younger this children by listening to them read. It was especially nice seeing siblings match up and read together.
Fractions! (3.3.22) #️⃣🔢
Year 3 had an active discussion as part of their maths lesson today. We discussed what we noticed about different fractions and looked to see if we could order them into unit and non-unit fractions. It was interesting to see what they thought they were, ready to then complete a range of questions successfully during the lesson.
Academic Crew (3.3.22)📚👍
This morning, as part of Year 3 and 4s academic Crew, we took a closer look at our peers writing books. First we critiqued the mistakes the adults made. Then it was our turn. We wrote down positive messages in each other’s book about what had been achieved successfully in previous lessons.
