Caring crew in MI

9th September 2024Stacey McClare

Today we started to talk about who is in our family, the people who love us and why our families make us safe. First of all we played a game standing in a circle. We changed places with others in the circle based on criteria eg. If we have a brother, sister, a dog, a pet. We enjoyed seeing who shared similar family members. We then looked at a series of pictures and thought about what we notice about the pictures, what is the same and what is different. This allowed for some great discussions. We then discussed our families in more detail, describing them, talking about what they do and what they like. Our debrief allowed us to think about our job within our families. We talked about being kind and showing respect. We then discussed our school crew and how our jobs within the crew are very similar. Some great discussions today MI 🙂

Citizenship crew in MI

3rd September 2024Stacey McClare

Today we started to think about changes and how they make us feel. We thought how it felt starting a new class, what we are looking forward to and the things we will miss from the last academic year. We talked about the changes we have experienced since we started our school journey in FS2. We talked about the effects of change and the importance of a positive mindset. We then thought about the word resilience, what this is and how we can show we are resilient in everything we do. We then worked in mini crews to share the ways in which we can show we are resilient.

Establishing Crew

2nd September 2024Hannah McLoughlin

Crew Mcloughlin really delved into ‘what is crew?’ last week. The children came up with their own definition and discussed their expectations of what they would want their crew to be like in order to adopt good habits and be the best versions of themselves. We spoke about Year 6 expectations and we just know this year is going to be a good one!

Throughout the week we have also been answering our Crew guiding question ‘How can Crew be strengthened through acts of service?’ We unpacked this question and discussed acts of service further – giving but not expecting to receive. As a Crew we decided to create postcards and bake in order to spread happiness around Carcroft. I was quite impressed with our beautiful work but even more so to see some children used their initiative and further carry this on throughout the week – giving cake and compliments to staff members and pupils. How lovely!

We participated in Challenge Crew on Tuesday where Mrs Rhodes (the queen of Challenge Crew) wrote a shopping list – It was the team leaders job to read the list and try to remember the five items, then go back to their teammates and verbally pass this down the line. The winning team was the first person at the back of the line to recite the shopping list exactly. We had lots of fun! When debriefing we realised we had used team working, listening and communication skills and critiqued how we performed at these specific skills.

As a morning task we also thoroughly enjoyed reading First News – we found lots of articles that linked to expedition and reading newspapers reminded us of our grandads.

This year we have the great opportunity of Y11 pen pals and got to meet them on hangout! We introduced ourselves and asked them lots of questions. We cannot wait to write to them further into the year, watch this space!

Overall, a very productive and successful week focusing on establishing Crew!

Caring crew in MI

2nd September 2024Stacey McClare

Today we thought about what makes our crew special. We thought about our crew norms and the non-negotiables we expect to see every day. We then moved onto creating a collage of all our crew members, we drew our selves then added 3 things we like. This is now displayed in our classroom for all to see. Our debrief allowed us to reflect on why our crew is special and the things we need to do together to make our crew the best it can be. Well done Crew MI 🙂

WW2 – Hook Week

30th August 2024Ruth Shields

This week we’ve started building some background knowledge about World War 2. We also put the main events into a timeline which took some great team work. Children had to consider days and months due to quite a few events happening in the same year. When we’d completed this, we used the timeline to help us create a knowledge organiser that highlights the key events and people.

Crew Challenge

30th August 2024Ruth Shields

One of our crew challenges this week was the human knot. Children had to work together to untangle themselves. It was good hearing some children taking a lead and helping to instruct their peers.

Welcome back Crew Shields

30th August 2024Ruth Shields

We’ve had a lovely week back in school and we kicked the week off by spending time focusing on crew and building positive relationships. This will allow us to have a successful year.

Our guiding questions was ‘What does crew mean to me?’ and we’ve spent lots of time talking about the importance of crew. When we shared our thoughts today some of the things children said crew is a big family, happiness, supporting each other and holding each other to account.

On Wednesday we were lucky enough to take part in an escape box challenge. This required us to really put our heads together and use each other’s strengths to help us work out all the clues. The clues were maths linked and had problems solving elements. Even I had to get the odd clue to figure out the next step.

Strengthening Crew

30th August 2024Laura Hamill

This week, our Crew Guiding Question was: How can crew be strengthened through acts of service?

We discussed what it meant to be part of a crew and how we could make this stronger by doing an act of service for others – something that would make them smile! 🙂 Following this, we decided that we were going to bake a tasty treat and create positive postcards to hand out to people around school that have done something kind that we are thankful for. This included the ladies in the office who work tirelessly to keep the school running, the ladies in the kitchen who prepare all our meals and some of the teachers who we feel helped us on a personal level.

We certainly felt like a solidified, happy crew once we had finished!

Space Art

30th August 2024Laura Hamill

Today, Crew Hamill proved what fabulous artists they are by fully engaging themselves in a painting of either the Sun or the Moon. After researching the artist Andy Warhol, we used our inspiration to create images of the Sun or Moon in outer space. We used a variety of skills and tools in order to produce these including the use of varying brush strokes, dabbing of a sponge and flicking of a toothbrush to create different elements of our image.