During the lesson (earlier this week), the children read through evidence that had been presented in the Huskar Report. Children worked in small groups to play either the role of the surviving children, family members, others miners or the jury. They used the evidence to help them prepare answers to the questions the jury may ask them. After everyone presented their evidence, they concluded that although there had been some fault, it was just a very bad accident.Â
To immerse children in their learning (writing) and allow them the opportunity to experience one, we created one in the hall. Children had to move through the mine and experience what it was like trying to do some of the jobs such as a hewer, hurrier or trapper. They quickly realised it wasn’t easy and hard work.Â
The experience wouldn’t have been complete without coal dust on their faces and coming out looking like they’ve actually been in the mine. Mrs Rhodes had a great time playing the role of the Banksman and informing the children they’d have their wages docked or they would have to complete another half shift due to them not working hard enough.
We then spent some time listening to sound effects from the mine with an emergency alarm followed by an explosion for good measure. This helped the children to start building vocabulary to support them in their writing.Â
Today we looked for the King’s crown at London Zoo, we saw tall giraffes, roaring lions, cheeky monkeys and stripey zebras. We still did not find the King’s crown.
In Crew Marsh this morning we have been out cloud watching, we could see: a heart cloud, crocodile cloud, horse cloud, lion cloud and the clouds were moving.
We went on a trip to Trafalgar square to find the King’s crown, which has gone missing just before his coronation. There was lots of beeping black taxi’s, red buses and shoppers in the square.
The children did an obstacle course today which they really enjoyed and Harry won the certificate again!
Today we looked at some of the questions we answered incorrectly in our arithmetic paper yesterday. We supported each other, talking through how we answer each question. We then applied our knowledge to some further questions 🙂 Such positive attitudes this morning in MI 🙂
We recapped apostrophes in our grammar session today, completing some activities on white boards and with our partner. We then applied our knowledge to a range of questions. We then explored a practise sats paper in our reading lesson. Children text marked confidently, unpicking vocabulary before answering questions. Our inference skills are really improving, our Wednesday inference sessions are really supporting us and helping us to become more confident when answering these type of questions.
Today MI completed their final arithmetic paper before the real one next week!! Such focus and resilience today! Everyone was so eager to get their best score! Children then worked through the questions they got wrong proving they were able to answer all questions correctly. We will work on some of the incorrect answers in our arithmetic sessions tomorrow, Thursday and Friday. Great work today MI 🙂
