New Class text

8th January 2024Ruth Shields

Today, we have started our new class text. We are excited to discover how this links to our Spring expedition.

Since September, we’ve also read George and the giant Peach, History Hackers – A Roman Rescue and The Night I met Father Christmas. We also read some of The Christmasaurus but unfortunately we didn’t get time to finish it and January isn’t really the time for a Christmas novel.

Crew Shields absolutely love our shared reading text and it’s something we look forward to. Everyone is always asking “Just one more chapter” 😊

French – Crew Shields 🇫🇷👖👚

6th January 2024Sarah Mcglone

We have been looking at items of clothing and identifying any cognates or near cognates with the translations. We then discussed the different nouns for clothing items and how the determiner changes depending on whether it is masculine, feminine or plural. We applied our new knowledge by completing a written task that required us to think about the rules of the French language and whether the determiners we had chosen were appropriate for the noun. We worked really hard and the discussions we had in our groups were really helpful.

Christmas Calendar

21st December 2023Ruth Shields

Today the children have taken home their Christmas calendars. We have drafted and redrafted the work as we’ve gone along and started to show some improvement with our painting skills. As a crew, we have discussed that with more time, we could have improved them even more but we were happy with the progress we’d made so far and hope to continue to develop our painting skills. Well done Crew Shields for your perseverance and resilience.

Raffle Winners – LKS2 Yorkshire Wildlife Park Fundraiser 🐻‍❄️🐯🐆🐘

21st December 2023Laura Hamill

A huge thank you to everyone who purchased raffle tickets at the stall that LKS2 had organised for the Christmas Fayre. All money raised from this will be going towards the Yorkshire Wildlife Park trip we are attending in January!

The raffle winners are as below:

  • Body Shop Hamper & Knitted Polar Bear: 101-105
  • Carvery Tickets: 6 – 10
  • So Cosy Giftset & Chocolate Bar: 66-70
  • Bag Of Treats Smelly Set: 91-95
  • Fuzzy Duck Gift Set: 81-85
  • Yankee Candle: 86-90
  • Zolly Bath Bomb: 1-5
  • Zolly Bath Bomb: 96-100
  • Bath Bomb Fizzers: 21-25
  • Umbro Duo Set: 51-55
  • Stocking: 26-30
  • Heatable Neck Warmer: 76-80

If these are your numbers, please visit the office with your strip of raffle tickets to collect your prize!

We still have lots of names left to win the giant knitted polar bear. Pupils will be visiting crews tomorrow morning if anyone would like to have a guess for your chance to give it a home! Names are £1 each.

The Polar Express – Christmas writing

18th December 2023Ruth Shields

Last week, we finished our Christmas writing. The children spent some time reading their writing aloud to their peers to ensure that it was punctuated accurately and that it made sense. This has been their best piece yet where children met all the learning targets and showed some stamina for writing. I’m excited to see what their next piece brings…

Beautiful work over the last 2 weeks!

13th December 2023Stacey McClare

It has been lovely finding out what children have been working on across school. Well done to all the children who have shared their beautiful work with me over the last 2 weeks. Some fantastic work 🙂

Acrylic techniques

9th December 2023Ruth Shields

We continued our art slice by practicing different acrylic paint techniques.

Then, we started the first draft of our Christmas calendar. This involved using the sponge technique to create the background using colour mixing. We have already started to critique our first attempt and realised we’ll need to be more precise with colour mixing on our second draft.

Finally, we started to sketch the trees for each season. Again, we started to reflect and think about what we’ll need to do differently on the next draft.