Crew Hamill were inspired by last weekâs TTRS battle for NSPCC in which they came first in the school and earned themselves some scooter reward time. Since then, weâve worked hard to improve our times tables and have tried our best to improve our heat maps. Weâre excited to see if we can use our new times table knowledge to beat Mrs Ibbotson in todayâs times table battle!
At the end of last week, Crew Hamill had lots of fun listening to the Bob Marley sing a long in celebration of his 80th Birthday. We loved listening to all of his songs!
Today we have participated in various scenarios in order to keep us as children safe. Hereâs a few snippets of what we got up toâŚ
To bring our unit on fractions to a close, we have been exploring equivalent fractions and identifying as many families as we can. To begin with, we created our own fractions walls and then used these to follow the lines to help identify which fractions were the same (of equal value). We then realised that we could use our times table knowledge to support with this and created some fraction flowers using this skill.
This week, we have been focusing on a new book by Marcus Rashford called âYou Can Do Itâ. We started the week by looking at the front cover and the blurb and pulling apart as much information as we could from what we could see and read. This helped us to understand a little bit more about what the book was about before we began to read any of it. Lots of us thought it might be a book about football due to the fact he is such a famous footballer. However, after reading the blurb, we were surprised to discover that it is actually about injustice and the injustices he has experienced first hand. Following this, we have pulled out a summary section on the first chapter and identified tricky vocabulary, making sure we can read all of these words and understand what they mean to support with our fluency. We also looked at our automaticity words and challenged a partner to read these automatically in a random order. We have then taken part in echo reading alongside our teacher and had another go at our words per minute challenge to see how close we are to the year 6 expected standard of 185 words per minute.
Today, Crew Hamill continued their history case study by exploring how life has changed since the early 20th Century. We used various sources of evidence to answer a number of questions in mini crews, focusing on how schools, housing and womenâs rights have changed over the last century. We were shocked to see how different things were for the wealthy compared to the poor!
In todayâs challenge crew, Crew Hamill had to work as a team to pass a beach ball around crew circle without using their hands. After a few troubleshooting ideas, they first decided to use their elbows and this was successful! After this, they were challenged to find another way. They tried with their knees but found this much trickier and ended up using their feet.
Crew Hamill had so much fun going out into our forest area to complete our next Scotty’s session. This session focused on creating a shelter that we would be able to protect ourselves from the elements in! We worked in mini crews to use the equipment given to create a space that we could hide from the rain. We then looked at what we could put inside our shelter to make it more comfortable! Well done to Kira and Taylor who earned Scotty’s Heroes this week due to their stewardship for packing away the equipment another crew had left behind!
Crew Hamill have been out in the school playground to show our stewardship and we’ve worked hard to pick up some of the litter that has been floating around!
