Today in Crew Marsh we were lucky enough to have an artist come into school and teach us the skills to draw a self portrait of our face for our final product. We cannot wait to see it!
Self-portraits with an artist
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Forest Flowers 💐
During XP outdoors we created our own vases using natural materials 🌹🌸🌺🌷we loved sharing our final products 🥰
Budding Artists in Crew Godley
Today we had a a very special visit from a local artist, Ms Rocket. We explored how to create a self portrait using our sketching skills. We cant wait to see our final product surprise 🤫
MI exploring word classes
Today in our grammar session we unpicked the different word classes then applied our knowledge to a variety of questions. Really fab work MI 🙂
MI apply skills in reading
Today we continued to work on the pace of our reading with a 10 minute do now activity to start the lesson. This really pushed us to read the text quickly along with using our skimming and scanning skills to find information quickly. We then moved onto a sats paper where we practised our test technique. We worked on some questions independently then used a demonstration comprehension session for some of the more challenging questions. Tomorrow we will unpick some of the 3 mark questions further using APE to support our answers.
Translation and reflection
Today in maths we learnt how we translate a shape, we described the shapes position then translated it. We also looked at how we reflect a shape across the x and y axis. Some great work MI 🙂
Sketching in the sunshine
Crew Shields made the most of the sunshine this afternoon by going out and sketching with charcoal. As part of our hook week, we have been discussing the community and recapped how Carcroft came into existence because of the coal mining industry. They learned that our school was built for the purpose of educating the miners children so it was only fitting that we sketched some of the building with charcoal.
We haven’t used charcoal as a medium for art before so this was a new experience but something we all enjoyed. Even better that we were catching some rays of sunshine.
Chinese Whispers
During our crew building activity, the children had to use their listening, verbal and memory skills. Mrs Rhodes had a shopping list that one child had to remember. They then went to their group and had to pass it down the line. When it reached the back, that child had to tell Mrs Rhodes what the shopping list was. In some cases, they remembered some of the items but it took them a couple of times before they got the full list.
The children explained that they found it easy as there was only 4 items to remember but they found it difficult because they had to rely on others to give the information. Definitely one to try another time.
Map work – Hook Week
Hook week is always an important time before we start an expedition to give children a taste of what we’ll be learning but also an opportunity to revisit previous skills.
Children used an atlas and google maps to locate some of the coal fields in the United a kingdom which led to discussions around why they thought lots of the coal mines were close together.
Hook week in Crew Welburn!
This week, we are hooking in to our new expedition – Would you travel by wheels, wings or other things? We’ve started our expedition by looking at vehicles within our local area that passed our school and thought about where they might be travelling to. We decided that the cars could be doing short journeys, like to the shops or to work, or they could be going further away to the sea side! We thought that the bicycle we saw was going to work or going home, because it would hurt your legs to cycle all the way to the sea side from Carcroft! When we looked up in the sky, we saw an aeroplane and we decided that this was taking people on holiday to a different country!
