It’s been a fun-filled first week back in Crew MW. We have been extremely busy exploring our new learning environment, working together in provision and catching up after our summer holidays. We have particularly enjoyed playing in the home corner, listening to stories on the Yoto player, and getting our groove on in the music area!
As part of our Case Study 3, linked to sound, we spent this afternoon in LKS2 exploring pitch and volume, creating different instrumental sounds, learning about how sounds are made and understanding the different parts of the ear that help us to hear. It was a very noisy afternoon (sorry Year 5!) but we learnt lots and also had a great amount of fun!
During music today, the children have been learning about different notes in music. We’ve learned about the crotchet, minim, quavers, semi quavers and semibreve.
We spent some time clapping rhythms to help use understand the difference in the notes. Children then had to work in small groups to compose their own rhythms using some of the difference notes before performing to the rest of the class. They did a great job with these. Check them out for yourselves…
Yesterday, we continued with unpicking poetry (a song) and worked as mini crews to rewrite it and adapt the verses. We want to be able to generate as many ideas as possible so that when we write our own poetry for the final product, we have lots of background knowledge to pull from. Some great collaboration and communication demonstrated within mini crews.
We’ve had lots of fun in the sunshine this week in Crew Welburn! We’ve made slides for dinosaurs, transported water using pipes and funnels, and even splashed our feet in our make shift paddling pools to cool off! The children are really developing their independence, curiosity and team work this week, and are working well together to explore how different things work – it is lovely to stand back and watch them forming strong friendships with each other!
The children have also been enjoying indoor provision, and are still excited by our story, Little Red Riding Hood. We spotted a wolf in school last night, so Leon decided to dress up as the Woodcutter to scare him away, and some of the boy and girls even made up a song to scare him off! We hope he doesn’t come back!
Our year 6 songs are really coming together 🙂 We are feeling super proud 🙂
This morning in Crew McLoughlin we were rehearsing for our Y6 leavers assembly. We are going to blow you all away with our amazing talent.
Please follow the link below to download the Young Voices charity single with all money raised going to Place2Be and children’s mental health charities.
When we went to Young Voices at the beginning of February, we were part of a recording of the song ‘Proud’ alongside the legendary music artist Heather Small and the rest of the Young Voices choir. On Monday 6th March, this song is being released to raise vital funds for the charity Place2Be, and children’s mental health. Check out the teaser below!
Rehearsals in full swing! 🎵🎤
