Crew Shields started the morning with a crew building activity. It was lovely to see children who wouldn’t normally take a lead role direct their peers and suggest ideas.
Crew Challenge – Leaning tower of Feetza – Who can make the tallest, free standing tower with shoes.
The children within Crew FE have had a brilliant time in their own class shop. They have worked hard to use their fred fingers to sound out words to write a shopping list. They had to think about all the different things you could buy in a shop. They then used this list to shop for the items using the shopping trolleys.
The children had to walk around the shop collecting the items on their lists before paying the shop keeper using pennies. We were kind to each other and supported one another by sharing the items out and ensuring everyone was able to have some shopping.
We have had a great time!
A fantastic first day back. The crews have settled back in really well and worked hard to produce beautiful work today.
We have continued learning about our expedition The Circle of Life: How will what I do today impact the world tomorrow?
The crews have been thinking about the changing seasons by producing some beautiful art work.
Well done!
We started off our day by taking part in a yoga session as part of our CREW. We all really enjoyed this!
In expedition lessons this week, we have been learning about Colombia. We have looked at human and physical features and even took a virtual tour using google earth. We have started to create our BBK grids so we can use all of this information to create a factfile. Watch this space for the finished pieces.
Have a great half term everyone and we will see you soon. Crew MI 🙂
Year 3 and 4 have been taking a look at how magnets work. We loved the active lesson where we spoke through the vocabulary of magnets, including push, pull, attract and repel. We then went on to draw our own magnet diagram and describe how the magnets work.
Happy half term to LKS2 as well! Enjoy the rest and see you all in a weeks time 😆
Happy half term! Today we began our independence writing linking to The Lorax. We have spent lots of time planning our writing and creating chunks of sense to apply into our own paragraphs. We used our rubrics to remind us of Y6 expectation too. 🤩
Some of us received a lovely treat from Miss Gilliland this morning – pancakes and a cup of tea! This was a thank you from Miss Gilliland for keeping secure HOWLS whilst I am not in class teaching. Well done guys 🤩
This half term we have achieved quite a few HOWL score 3s. We know that we are improving and our focus and determination is getting stronger. Next half term is going to be a good one!
This week we have been continuing our research into our second case study: what builds a community?
At the start of the week we donned our high visibility jackets and ventured out for a walk around Carcroft to explore our community in more detail. Together we made many observations such as buses and bus stops, road and street signs, shops, lamp posts and parks. The children also wowed us with their previous learning of different styles of houses, pointing out flats, bungalows and terraces.
Upon returning to school we thought carefully about the purpose of each aspect and how they help to support our community. The children also shared their knowledge with each other by helping to answer each other’s interesting questions. Victor wondered what the poles with wires were, to which George explained that they give our houses electricity. We also reflected on our walk to help us produce some gorgeous writing!
We have also spent time exploring a range of maps and globes. The children really enjoyed looking at them and noticed interesting details such as the country borders and names of places. When looking at a map of the United Kingdom, Nolan asked how long it would take to drive from the top of Scotland to Penzance on the tip of England. The children placed guesses ranging from 8 hours to 50. Thanks to trusty Google maps we found out it would take around 13 hours!
Later in the week we looked at places a bit further from home! We used the globes and maps of the world to look at other countries such as those that other children in our Crews are from.
What a fun week we have had in Crew FE!
Our busy mathematician’s working hard to get smart. Well done!
In crew this morning we were timed to answering 3 questions in 10 minutes and challenged to green by creating our own questions for peers within this time limit. We loved getting active and learning at the same time. Reading pace and stamina has been our focus this half term in academic crew and we can definitely see an improvement.
