Design and Technology day in MI

Today we started to think about how design and technology may link to our expedition. We started the day by unpicking our food diaries that we had completed over the easter holidays. We thought about which foods may be healthy and which are unhealthy. We then thought more about what makes a balanced diet. We looked at the eat well plate and the different foods we should be eating to ensure our diets are balanced. We enjoyed creating a class eat well plate.

From here we took part in a taste testing activity where we were blindfolded! We tasted a variety of foods and thought about if the foods were healthy or unhealthy. We thought about the taste of the foods and why we liked or didn’t like them. We thought about if these foods appear in our diets and if we needed to adapt our diets to make them more healthy.

We then looked at weighing scales and how we convert from grams to kilograms. We used the maths skills we had already gained on this area to help us. We then looked at the ingredients needed to make a batch of cookies. We worked in mini crews to weigh out all the ingredients we needed before mixing everything together. We thought about the ingredients we were using and if they were classed as healthy. We enjoyed eating our cookies at the end of the day!

Hook Week in Crew MI

Welcome back everyone! We hope you all had a lovely Easter break!

Yesterday we started our hook week with a history day! We started to think about periods of history and which significant people and groups we could remember. From here we did our own research to find specific dates and started to order these using BC and AD. We then worked as a crew to create a paper chain of periods of time throughout history. We then used the images on our anchor chart to predict what we thought the guiding question may be. We realised that one image was a plague doctor, we enjoyed discussing this. We then had a go at drawing our own plague doctors, we all worked really hard and showed some great concentration skills.

Y5 Swimming 🏊‍♀️

Morning all,

Y5 swimming commences this Friday for the next 12 weeks. Y5 children can come to school in their swimming kit ready as this makes it easier when we arrive at the pool – swimming costumes for girls, trunks for boys and a towel. Girls I would also recommend having your hair up or bringing a bobble with you. Please don’t forget to pack your undies for coming home in!

Y5 will be leaving for swimming lessons at 8:45am so if children could be at school promptly this will massively help getting to the session on time, doors will be open for Y5 from 8:35am.

Happy Swimming! 👍

LKS2 Hook Day 1 (19.4.22) 🍭🍬

Today, LKS2 have been figuring out their guiding question for the Summer Expedition. We played a game of hangman to figure out what it was. This was great fun trying to guess what it could be and we managed to get there!

After having the Guiding Question revealed, Why is the history of sugar not so sweet?, we started our KWL by writing down what we knew about sweets and what we would like to know. It was great to hear questions like why does sugar energise us, how does sugar melt in water and who discovered sugar? LKS2 can’t wait to find these out over the next few weeks.

Finally, Year 3 and 4 then watched some videos about how sweets are made. We were mesmerised by how rock was made, as well as candy canes. We even wondered if we would be able to visit a sweet factory or make our own. Keep your eyes peeled! 👀👀

Caterpillar watch crew FE.

Happy Easter everyone! 🐣 We hope you have had an amazing day in the sunshine.

We had a great surprise this morning, our first butterflies 🦋 appeared! We have ensured they are happy with some juicy fruit and water and will be releasing them soon.

We have 3 cocoons still waiting to pop (shouldn’t be too long now), as soon as we have all of the beautiful butterflies together we will set them free. It has been amazing seeing their transformations.

Have a lovely night and see you all soon.

Caterpillar watch Crew FE.

Well, we now have 5 cocoons and have gently transferred the very wriggly cocoons into the butterfly net.

We had to carefully remove all the caterpillar webbing to ensure the butterflies won’t get caught in them when they hatch. It was a nervous process, ensuring we didn’t disturb the cocoons.

Hopefully it won’t be too much longer to wait until we see wings!

Caterpillar Watch Crew FE.

Hope everyone is enjoying their half term!

I just wanted to give a little update on the caterpillars of crew FE. 🐛

We now have cocoons! 3 fat caterpillars have made their way to the top of the tub to create their cocoons and 2 more wriggly caterpillars are still enjoying the food before turning themselves.

Once all 5 caterpillars have spun their cocoons they will be transferred to the butterfly net. Can’t wait to see them transform!

Happy Easter Crew Shields

A huge well done to Crew Shields for this last term. It’s been busy but we’ve crammed lots of learning in and I’m confident this will continue next term. Have a well deserved rest and be safe. Hope you have a wonderful Easter Break.