During today’s activity, the children participated in a rainbow ribbon dance session.Each child received a ribbon and followed along with an instructional video to work on their hand-eye coordinationThe children loved waving their ribbons.
Crew Godley took their learning outdoors for an exciting den-building challenge! Working together, we used natural and recycled materials to design and construct our own shelter.
We had to communicate, share ideas, solve problems and support one another as we worked as a crew. We thought carefully about how to make our den strong, stable and weatherproof, testing our ideas and making improvements along the way.
This challenge encouraged us to demonstrate our HoWLs and Character Traits, particularly compassion, courage and craftsmanship. We discovered that successful crew work isn’t about one person doing all the work – it is about listening to each other, sharing responsibility and helping everyone to contribute.
Most importantly, we had fun learning outside, getting creative and challenging ourselves together!
Year 4 put in fantastic effort during PE today, practicing their football control and dribbling skills.
As part of their morning task, they developed their fine motor skills by carefully threading pasta onto string. This activity helped to strengthen their hand-eye coordination, concentration, and control of small hand movements.
What a week we have had in maths! Crew MI have been amazing mathematicians this week and showed great resilience when tackling some tricky problems. We have used the concrete resources to support us with our learning and have played some great maths games along the way. Keep this great up as work up to millions next week!
We have been working on our pre-writing skills in Crew McGlone this week. We started by looking at how we need the correct posture when sitting at our tables to show we are ready to write before then moving on to look at using ‘pinch parrot’ to help us with the correct pencil grip. We talked about how when we are writing we start on the left and move to the right, starting at the top of the paper before moving our way down.
We used our new knowledge to have a go at tracing over lines and different patterns to practise these skills.
In writing, the children have been learning all about The Gingerbread Man. Throughout the week, they have been busy making their own gingerbread men, creating a large gingerbread man and even making the fox!
Take a peep at what they have been up to this week and see all the wonderful learning they have been enjoying!
This week, Crew White put their place value knowledge to the test by playing the NRICH game Nasty or Nice.
Using dice, the children had to decide carefully where to place each digit to create the best possible number. Every roll brought a new decision: should they play nicely and help their partner, or be nasty and make their challenge much harder?
The competitive element brought plenty of excitement and motivation, but the real challenge was thinking strategically about the value of each digit. We then adapted the game by setting our own rules, exploring how small changes could make it fairer, trickier or even more tactical.
A brilliant session filled with mathematical thinking, discussion and just the right amount of friendly competition!
Crew Godley have been stepping back in time to explore “Toy Box Through Time.” We have been discovering how toys have changed over the years, exploring some fascinating old toys and learning about the history of much-loved favourites, including dolls and teddy bears.
We also discovered a special local connection as we learned about the history of Paddington Bear and the Paddington Bear factory in Adwick!
The children enjoyed comparing toys from the past with the toys we play with today and thinking about how and why toys have changed over time. It has been fantastic to see their curiosity, questions and excitement as they became toy historians!
This morning, we began our expedition hook day. We explored Mars Rovers through a range of activities including exploring new vocabulary, reading texts, analysing photos, types of rocks and videos and looking at a rover prototype.
