This week in Year 2 we have been answering the guiding question ‘Does Crew stop at the school gates?’.
We decided to spread some happiness by hiding rocks and books for you all to find and even enjoyed a treat along the way!
Thank you to all the parents who joined us on the walk, there were some very tired legs at the end!!
Today I had the pleasure of spending an hour with Crew Marsh during their first English lesson. They listened again to the Rainbow Fish story and talked about how this linked to our ‘be kind’ HoWLs. Then they completed some activities linked to their ‘be kind’ story to help them to really understand the importance of being kind in Crew Marsh and how being unkind can make people feel.
I was blown away by the way they all concentrated throughout the lesson. They carefully watched Miss Marsh model sentence writing and then had a go. I cannot believe how amazing they did. I also loved seeing the children work independently in their labs creating their fish.
This week in Crew we have explored what it means to be kind and how we can show this in the wider community. Tomorrow KS1 will deliver their kindness stones and books to the local community for them to find, here’s a little sneak peak of our product being developed……
Crew Robson and Crew Godley have been working hard, to get smart today by creating their own colour wheels using their art skills. We will be using our background knowledge to create a piece of crew art work tomorrow – watch this space!
We began by exploring what a colour wheel is and how we can vary shades and tints of colours by adding black or white. We were amazed by the children’s resilience and determination to achieve the desired effect.
Crew Godley have had a fantastic two days developing ‘Crew’, we’ve worked incredibly hard to show we are ready for the challenges of Year 2! We have developed our relationships and communication skills by listening carefully to one and other an allowing everyone to have a voice within our crew.
We have built crew by creating our own crew bunting using printing skills, played crew games to develop our communication skills, carried out our stewardship roles to keep our environment looking beautiful whilst also having time to take part in some yoga 🧘♀️ It’s been a bust two days!
As part of our first week back, we are focusing on crew and building our positive relationships. To give us focus, Year 4’s guiding question is: How can we work together to achieve an end goal?
To allow children an opportunity to do this, they worked in small groups to make some buns. However, they were only given the ingredient but no instructions. The children then had to use experts in their group to support them. Thankfully, everyone was successful and they got to enjoy a bun during afternoon crew.
When I asked the children how this activity helped answer the guiding question, they explained that they had to communicate (talk about what to do and how), they used others as experts because these children baked regularly, everyone had a responsibility to ensure they had the correct ingredients and equipment, they supported each other, they took turns but also allocated each other with jobs to ensure everyone was involved. By doing all of these things, it meant they were able to make a bun which was edible.
Crew Shields had a great first day back. We spent the morning completing some crew challenges which tested our resilience. The crew discovered which children brought out the best in them and this led to their success. Lots of smiling faces which was lovely to see on our return.
Ready for our walk on Friday we have started to create kindness gifts to put a smile on someone’s face in the community, who might find them. We loved making our kindness stone, we made it look like a rainbow fish linking to our story.
Don’t forget to come along to the KS1 reading cafe tomorrow at 3pm to share a story with your child. Hope to see you all there!
Good evening.
I hope that you are all enjoying the Summer break.
As we start the countdown to our return, I was hoping that the children could start collecting cardboard. This will be needed the first 3 days back when we will complete an art project across school.
This can be cardboard from packaging or large boxes. Any the children can save would be greatly appreciated. They can bring it to their crew class when they return on 30th August.
I hope they enjoy the rest of their time off and I look forward to seeing them on our return. See you all soon.
Thanking you in advance. Miss Shields
