Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover! Crew White Celebrates World Book Day

5th March 2026Charlotte Newman

Today, Crew White celebrated World Book Day with a fun book discovery activity designed to spark curiosity about reading. Students began by silently exploring eight different books placed around the room, judging their first impressions based on the covers. After discussing what caught their attention, students read a selection of blurbs, noted interesting details and questions on post-its, and reconsidered their choices. To finish, we held a lively Book Tournament, where the eight books competed in a class vote until one Crew White Champion Book was crowned — which we’ll now begin reading together in class.

Waking up our brains!

1st March 2026Thomas White

We began our first week back after the half-term holidays by waking up our brains with an 8 minute HIIT (high intensity interval training) activity! 35 seconds of work followed by 25 seconds of rest got us warmed up for the day ahead.

Becoming Hans Holbein the Younger

1st March 2026Thomas White

This week, we started our Case Study 3 Art study of our current expedition. With a focus on proportion and creating beautiful work, Crew White have stepped back in time to the Tudor Court.

Our current task is to create portraits of ourselves at Tudors using significant artist, Hans Holbein, as inspiration. Stay tuned over the next few weeks to see our progress.

Academic Crew – personalised learning

12th February 2026Thomas White

Recently, during Academic Crew in Year 6 we have been showing independence, collaboration and hard thinking to help us get smart. During these sessions, we have our own learning target that we are focusing on. Some of us are improving our writing skills, some of us are becoming better readers and others are becoming better mathematicians. Last week, postcards were given to Rory, Tommy and Tiarna for their effort during this session. This week, postcards were given to Charlie, Ruby and Toby. Follow us to find out who will be next!

Rain, Rain Go Away

12th February 2026Thomas White

On rainy days, the mood within Crew White is a little melancholy. Going outside at break time, letting off some steam and doing some exercise is one of the best parts of the day for many children. Earlier this week, we didn’t let the rain stop us from having a well-earned brain break and we went into the hall to play bench ball.

Year 6 Spelling Relays

5th February 2026Thomas White

We got active today in Crew White in order to learn this week’s spellings. Each team had to send one person at a time to write a letter of the word that needed to be spelled. The first team to spell the word correctly, won the point. I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-C-E!

Build a sentence! Grammar practice in Crew White

5th February 2026Thomas White

In Crew White, we have been perfecting our knowledge of word classes by building funny, strange and…interesting sentences. Ever heard a sentence including brainrot before? Apparently, it’s something a lot of Year 6s are very familiar with. At least we now know that it is a noun, can be modified using adjectives and we can give extra detail about it using parenthesis, which can be embedded into a sentence using brackets, dashes or commas. See, grammar can be fun!

Sticky Knowledge – Maths Reasoning

29th January 2026Thomas White

Each week, in Crew White, we have a different reasoning focus then the following week we find out how much of that learning has stuck. Last week, the focus was all about matching questions: fractions, decimals and percentages. Today, we tackled two short reasoning questions to see how well the learning stuck and thankfully it’s still in our brain ready for when we need it. This is something called retrieval practice.

Gymnastics in Crew White

29th January 2026Thomas White

In Crew White, we have been working hard to perfect our back bridges. It has been challenging for some people, but in Crew White we believe that with determination, resilience, and encouragement we can do it. Some people have displayed incredible skills, determination and a lot of resilience: Tommy Thompson and Debbie-Mae Bell.

There were so many people we could have picked. Be determined, be resilient and trust in yourself and you can do anything!

Written by Praise Shoyemi