Newspaper writing in MI

14th March 2023Stacey McClare

Today we started to unpick and explore newspaper articles. We discussed the purpose of newspaper articles, reliability and what we find in them. After we had a secure understanding of the features, we worked in mini crews to read a selection of articles around the room. We found the different features then reported back our findings to the whole crew. From here we watched a clip called ’Roads End.’ This is the stimulus we will use for our own newspaper report. We found the clip very intriguing and it allowed us to discuss lots of different ideas. We then unpicked a model text before thinking specifically about headlines. We finished our lessons today by creating our own! There was some great use of alliteration 🙂

Reading Champions

9th March 2023Sophie Elmer

Last Friday, we started the first of many reading celebrations to come! Lots of children across school were awarded for reading at home. Teachers have been keeping a log of how many children have been reading each week and we really wanted to praise those children (and grown ups!) who have really made the effort to read at home every night! We also celebrated the Crew who have been reading the most at home and last week’s winners (for Week 1) was Crew MI! Well done to all of the fabulous readers! Keep up the great work! I wonder who our Reading Champions will be next week? Could it be you?!

Last week’s Reading Champions!

Story Telling in Crew Welburn

9th March 2023A Welburn

We’ve been looking at the story Jack and the Beanstalk in Crew Welburn today. We used our story language like ‘once upon a time’, ‘fee, fi, fo, fum’ and ‘they lived happily every after’ to retell the story using our props. We loved looking at the magic beans, growing the beanstalk and acting out the story using the characters!

Dancing the day away 🕺

8th March 2023Ruth Shields

Crew Shields have been showing off their dance moves today.

They started the day off by completing some team building activities then they started to learn a new dance routine.

I absolutely love how they are all trying to active participate in the learning even the children who don’t finding dancing enjoyable. This really shows us working hard to get smart! 😁

Massive well done Crew Shields ⭐

We are artists!

8th March 2023Laura Godley

Our crew have been following instructions in our writing experience lessons to create artwork to supplement their writing. We listened carefully how to draw our own cat. The cat was trying to catch the egg! But the egg shouted……. We can’t wait to write about it! Dom was our writing superstar the previous lesson when the dog chased the egg!