Today we have been messengers, we learnt that they had an important job of sharing messages to different parts of the land. We shared our message from the Battle of Hastings to the Carcroft castle.
Messengers
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Being cooks
In crew Marsh we are experiencing all the different jobs you might find in a castle. We have been cooks, we decorated biscuits for the King and Queen. What a Friday afternoon treat!
Candlemakers
We have experienced our second castle job today, luckily it was better than being a servant. We were candle makers and we each made our own candle.
Building our own castles
We became designers in our expedition lesson. We followed Miss Marsh’s instructions carefully to make our castles, then once they were finished we tested their strength using tennis balls.
We came to the conclusion that paper is not a suitable material for a castle and that stone is better because it is much stronger to withstand an attack from an enemy.
Materials
In Crew Marsh we have been looking at different materials. We organised them into different categories – wood, metal, fabric, glass and plastic. We then spoke about what properties each material had. We applied this to our castle learning and thought about what material we would want to use to build a castle – we voted for metal.
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KS1 Family Learning
Thank you to all the parents who joined us this afternoon for our first family learning session of the term. It was lovely to see so many children and parents taking part and producing some amazing Van Gogh inspired artwork.
We can’t wait for our next family learning session.
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Zog
Today we have been to dragon school, we have learnt how to breathe fire, fly and roar loudly.
Rainbow fish
Last week we looked at how to be kind, we did this through the rainbow fish book. We looked at how rainbow fish wasn’t kind to begin with but then ended up being kind in the end and this made him feel happy. We created our own kindness fish tank to remind us to always be kind. We looked at ordering the story and verbally answering questions about what we had read.
Grammar
This week in Crew Marsh we have gone right back to basics and unpicked what a letter, word and sentence is. The children were fab at comparing these and understanding how letters make words and words make sentences.
