How can you be a maker like me?

1st March 2022Gemma Whitehead

As part of Case Study 3, Crew Nursery are answering the question, ‘How can you be a maker like me?’ 

This week, the children are going to be bakers who make delicious sweet treats! Yesterday, after reading ‘The Gingerbread Man’, the children explored various collage materials and used them to design their own Gingerbread Men. In provision, they also used role play and small world resources to reenact the story and take on the role of bakers in the play dough, sand and role play areas. We can’t wait to see and smell their very own delicious Gingerbread Men later in the week…

Crew Nursery – Spring Term 2 Week 1

1st March 2022Gemma Whitehead

In the first week of Spring Term 2, the children in Crew Nursery finished answering their case study 2 question, ‘How do you build a community?’ They looked at the different roles of people in Carcroft village and they talked about how some people help to keep us safe. The children dressed up as police officers, lollipop wardens, nurses and builders and talked about their own aspirations for the future. They also took on the roles of rubbish collectors and police officers in the small world area. The children discussed road safety whilst drawing maps of their village and they created their own traffic lights and zebra crossings using a repeating pattern. Crew nursery finished the week by making pledges to keep their community safe by putting litter in the bins. 

Year 3 PE Changes ⚽️

28th February 2022Simon Gerrard

Just to inform you that PE for year 3 will be on a Tuesday and a Thursday. Children will need to come in suitable clothing for PE 😆

Independent write ✔️📖

28th February 2022Hannah McLoughlin

The past couple of weeks we have been narrating, critiquing and revising The Lorax. As we had finished this piece it was time to show off on Friday to our audience – year 3. It was motivating to have a purpose and the opportunity to share our work as Miss Mcloughlin reads lots of our work. We beamed with pride as we knocked on Crew Gerrard’s and Crew Flaherty’s door ready to show off our beautiful work. It was also lovely to see some year 3s reading their writing back too and giving kind critique 😀

Crew MI

28th February 2022Stacey McClare

Today we have started our next writing unit, a persuasive letter. We have unpicked a persuasive letter thinking about the features needed. We used coloured pencils to highlight emotive language, flattery, rhetorical questions, adverbials, facts/evidence and using the first person. We worked really hard in our pairs to support each other when reading the letter then finding the features together.

Music Hook 2 (25.2.22) 🎵🎶🎸

25th February 2022Simon Gerrard

Year 3 have had a great lesson critiquing songs from the 60s up to now. It was great seeing how music changed and learning musical vocabulary. The critiquing was excellent and was such a lovely morning. Check out our photos below:

Crew Mcloughlin authors ✍🏼

23rd February 2022Hannah McLoughlin

During a critique session, Miss began by modelling how to critique a piece of Y6 writing. We then had confidence to help and work as a crew – this really helped us with how this would look when revising our own writing. 

We then focused on our peers’ independent plot point 1 writing. Using the gold and green standards, we assessed how well the writing met the criteria. We then up-levelled some sentences to try and improve cohesion and flow as well as Y6 quality. After we discussed praises, notices and wonders, we returned to our own writing and tried to improve the content and quality. We have loved narrating The Lorax and cannot wait to read it to our audience – Year 3 and 4.