Rock, paper, run!

6th March 2025Laura Godley

Today, we had to run through an obstacle course where every challenge was unlocked by a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors! We had to defeat obstacles (us!) with the right move, and sprint to the finish. Strategy, speed, and quick thinking led the children to victory – it was such great fun and lots of positive sportsmanship observed!

Book talk/Demo comp

6th March 2025Kate Thompson

In our book talk and demo comp lesson this week, we have focussed on a range of comprehension skills. We have used a variety of different lenses such as, trawling for evidence, inference and language. We worked really hard to explain why and use evidence from the text.

Would you try Zombie cuisine?

4th March 2025Natasha Holdsworth

After reading our story ‘Zombies don’t eat veggies’, in writing today a few of us in Crew Marsh spoke about what type of foods would be changed to fit the cuisine of a Zombie. We got so engrossed and came up with lots of great ideas including brain pizza, knees on toast and gut bolognaise! We then put all of our ideas on a slide and presented these ideas in our small group. We are working on orally recalling sentences and the children showcased this amazingly today, by linking their ideas to the story and using the characters names. What a gruesome experience!

Hooking into our new book

3rd March 2025Nicola Robson

To hook us into our new book we made a jigsaw from the front cover and made predictions about what might happen in the book.
We then practiced our cutting skills again and chopped some tomatoes, cucumber, pepper and onion to make some tasty gazpacho following a recipe from the back of the book.

Crew McLoughlin or mini Jonathan Yeos?

28th February 2025Hannah McLoughlin

In Case Study 2, we have been studying the artist Jonathan Yeo- a British artist known for his contemporary portraits of famous people. We have delved into his artwork and analysed his use of colours, tone and highlight with use of shadows. We learnt some new sketching techniques to reflect the direction of a light source on an object. We analysed use of colour- why has the author used certain colour choice, linking our knowledge of warm and cool colours. We have chosen an inspirational individual we have studied about in history and reading and started to sketch an outline. Our first drafts look pretty impressive!

Experience and Grammar day

28th February 2025Hannah McLoughlin

This half term we have begun our next unit of writing, which we’re extremely excited about as it is going to be supporting us with our final product. Our genre is a type of monologue- a speech- focussing on ‘I have a dream for Doncaster’. We were immersed into the writing by watching example videos of monologues in films we love to obviously enjoy as the audience, but importantly build background knowledge and understand a purpose of speeches. We then participated in a conscience alley to reflect on our opinions of the pros and cons of Doncaster, as well as reflected on issues within our own community. We then backed this up with research our chosen dreams for Doncaster.

In grammar day, we consolidated clauses; we found the subject, verb and object within a clause. We also played punctuation bingo, which was a huge hit! This developed our knowledge and led us to today’s learning – Miss’ expectation of us using Y6 standard punctuation. We learnt about the purpose of colons and semicolons and made our very own sentences we could add into our introduction next lesson. The grammar refresh was definitely needed ready for progressing in our writing as well as ready for our grammar test next week.