More experience fun in LKS2! 🌊🧍🏡📚📝

8th June 2023Sophie Elmer

Today we had the great pleasure of another ‘experience lesson’! This was due to us being able to welcome a visitor into our school called Kerry Poncia (a teacher at XP) who unfortunately had first hand experience of the floods in Fishlake (in 2019) and came to share her experience with us all. 

We started the lesson by recapping our current book, ‘FLOOD’, and completed a ‘silent conversation’ listing the questions that we would ask the characters from the book. Such as, how did it feel when you had to leave your home? What was it like seeing your home ruined? Have you ever had to leave your home before? Etc. This then led us to then think of some questions that we could ask Kerry prior to her visit. We recorded these on a large sheet of paper ready for her presentation in the afternoon. 

In the afternoon, Kerry visited and she provided us with lots of information about floods to support us with our writing next week. It was a great afternoon and as you can see we were all hooked in by what she was saying! Mrs Elmer recorded lots of facts and emotive language so that we can use this word bank to further support our chotting and writing of plot points next week.

World Ocean Day!

8th June 2023Kate Thompson

Today in Crew Thompson, we celebrated World Ocean Day! World Oceans Day is all about protecting the ocean. A healthy planet needs a healthy ocean, but our waters face huge risks from overfishing, climate change, and plastic pollution. Luckily, we can help! We came up with lots of great ways to protect our oceans such as: recycling, picking up our litter and not using as much plastic.

Future artist…

8th June 2023Ruth Shields

This morning in crew we had the pleasure of viewing the art work of Kaylum and we have decided that children will have more opportunities to share their interests with us.

Kaylum is a budding artist and often brings in stuff for our tabletop display. He has brought in his sketchbook from home today and we are truly blown away. I’m sure you will as well.

We have set Kaylum a challenge – Can he create us a sign for our door that says Crew Shields surrounded by images that reminds him of people in the crew. Watch this space…

Drawing pie charts

8th June 2023Emily Ibbotson

In Crew MI, we have been learning about pie charts all week and today was the day we learnt how to draw them. It was tricky at first because we had to work out how many degrees each segment would be then we used a protractor to measure accurately. We got there in the end.