Crew Hamill spent time today exploring how shadows are formed. Once we’d worked out that shadows are formed by opaque objects blocking a light source, we experimented to see how we could change these shadows. We identified that when an object was closer to the light source, the shadow was larger as more of it was blocked and when the object was further away, the shadow was smaller as there was less of it being blocked.
Crew Hamill have absolutely LOVED having the opportunity to take a seat in a super car today! The visitors were extremely kind and let each of us have the chance to sit in the front seat. Not only that, but they also brought each of us an easter egg!!
To bring their current expedition to an end, Crew Hamill and Crew Wilkinson took part in their Presentation of Learning this afternoon.
Over the past term, they have been working hard on a series of case studies, with one of the highlights being the powerful words of Martin Luther King Jr. in his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. As part of this, they have explored the significance of Martin Luther King’s message and its relevance today, not just in the United States but right here in our own community of Doncaster. Inspired by his vision of equality, justice, and hope, each of our students has crafted their own speech, sharing their dreams for a better, brighter future for our city.
Today, they had the opportunity to share these speeches with their families, hopefully inspiring them to also make a difference and support their dreams for Doncaster. Standing proudly on stage, alongside their artwork of inspirational people, inspired by Jonathan Yeo, they gave it their all.
We are so extremely proud of each and every one of them and the effort they have put in to learning their speeches in order to powerfully perform these in front of an audience. The legacy of these speeches will also live on in an article that is being prepared for Doncaster Free Press. Please keep an eye out for this popping up in the near future!
Today, we began investigating how light travels. We worked in mini crews to work with cardboard, string and torches in order to see how the light travelled from one end of the string to the other.
Crew Hamill kick-started their money unit by exploring different amounts of money and ensuring we knew how to write them correctly with a pound sign and decimal point. We took part in a carousel of activities:
Crew Hamill have worked extremely hard over the last few days to complete their independent write. We began with a recap of our grammar, ensuring we can still label the verb, subject and everything else in our sentences to ensure they are punctuated correctly. We then used a stimulus of a short film, Francis to create a descriptive piece of writing. We have chotted ideas together as a crew in order to complete a setting description of where Francis is as well as a character description of Francis herself. We have then used the resources available to us – word banks, chotting sheets and pictures – to write our descriptions.
Crew Hamill have done a fantastic job in helping me clean up are forest area. They worked well has a crew and helped each other. They even made their own swing.
We’ve had some AMAZING costumes for World Book Day today in Crew Hamill.
Crew Hamill have also brought in some BRILLIANT plates inspired by their favourite characters. Well done to Jake and Kira for their winning plates!
We’ve had SO much fun going in to read to the smaller children in EYFS today too. Thank you Crew Frost and Crew McGlone for letting us join your lovely crews!
Now that Crew Hamill have completed their final paintings of Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks, we have used a Padlet to share out paintings with the rest of the crew and add some critique. We have remembered to be kind, specific and helpful and to ensure we critique the piece and not the person.
