What do we do when we face a challenge?

Today in PE we developed our teamwork skills, collaborating and communicating. This was key for the tricky challenges we had to complete as a crew. Our first challenge was to ‘cross the river’. The objective was to move across the river, however, we were only allowed to stand inside the hoops without touching the rest of the space on the floor. We could only move the hoops with our hands. It took a lot of communication and resilience!

Our second challenge, the spiders web! This involved a lot of planning and problem solving skills. We could only pass through each segment once, we had to explore how each crew mate could pass through each section without touching the web. I was so proud of the teamwork and resilience we displayed to achieve our goals.

Exploring the events of WW2

Today we explored the time frames of WW2, we looked at key moments in history and developed our own timelines to record the key facts of WW2. This further developed our understanding of the time frame of WW2 challenging our thinking around our perceptions of a World War. It was surprising to discover that Hitler had died before the war was declared to be over. Declan then deceived to deepen his understanding of some key events by researching, independently.

Exploring WW2

Time Travel education came into school today and delivered a WW2 workshop that brought events of WW2 to life. We discovered the causes of WW2 and the homefront. We really enjoyed the experience and it helped to kick start our expedition and build on some of the concepts we have already started to explore in crew together.

Citizenship Crew

Today we started to think about changes and how they make us feel, exploring how the new school year had made us feel. We thought about what we are looking forward to this year and some of the challenges we may face. We talked about the importance of a positive mindset. We then thought about the word resilience, what this is and how we can show we are resilient in everything we do. We then worked together to create an anchor chart to help us remain possible and resilient in our everyday lives.