Feature Finding! 🔍🕵📖📝✏

This morning as part of our Expedition/The Write Stuff learning in Crew FE, we looked at the features of scripts. These included, a title, setting the scene, a list of people, a list of props, stage directions, a new line for a new speaker and the names written on the left, as well as a range of punctuation including brackets, colons and bullet points. We also discussed the audience and purpose of scripts. Next week, we are going to be writing our own broadcasting script informing others of the catastrophic earthquakes that occurred in Syria and Turkey earlier this year as part of our Expeditionary learning, ‘Earth Shattering Events’, ‘What happens when nature strikes?’. We will also hopefully be performing and recording these using a green screen at the end of the week, and hope to share these as part of our COL event later in the term! 📽

Coal Mining Museum

We have had the best day as we explored the coal mining museum. Children had the opportunity to go on and underground tour of a working mine and hear stories from the miners giving the tours. Some of us were a little worried about going in the elevator and going underground but we faced our fears and went anyway. It was so lovely seeing the others encouraging them and trying to reassure them.

We also went to see the out ponies and the blacksmith workshop. Luckily, they were waiting in another school arriving so they took the time to chat with the children.

Well done to the children who asked lots of questions as this showed your eagerness to learn.

This fieldwork has worked out well for timing as it also acted as an experience day for writing. Our next plot point is about going into the mine and we’ve all now had experience of doing that. Lots of tired children and adults on the way home.

Cricket tournament!

Today, some of our Year 3 and Year 4 children have took part in a cricket tournament. The children showed how well Carcroft School work as a team, and were cheering others on throughout the day. Their crew building and communication skills really shone through today! They got better and better as the day went on and we are sure they will be experts when they have finished doing cricket in PE!

From cloud watchers to weather reporters

We have extended our knowledge from watching and identifying clouds, to making a weather report of our own. We did some research online, watched our local weather reports and then made a draft copy. We then critiqued our draft and made changes to create a final piece which some of us enjoyed filming. I think we may have some future weather reporters in Crew Robson ☀️❄️🌈☔️