Building background knowledge in MI

10th January 2023Stacey McClare

Today we continued our history case study and started to learn about Martin Luther King Jr. We used a variety sources to find out as much as we could about Martin Luther King Jr and shared this information with the rest of our mini crew. We helped each other digest information then took part in a gallery walk during our debrief to find out what other mini crews had found out. We also offered some critique to each group. We have really worked on our work hard and get smart howl today but actively participating and encouraging others to take part too.

Here are our finished BBK grids…

Musical Rockstars 🎸🤘🏻

10th January 2023Laura Godley

Crew Godley have been amazing in their music lessons this week! We have some rockstars in the making for sure! This afternoon we have used garage band to develop our own musicals skills playing a variety of instruments.

Scientific report writing in MI

9th January 2023Stacey McClare

After completing one of our science investigations in hook week, we used our previous knowledge to write up the investigation in the form of a scientific report. Here are some examples of our work. We ensured we had a clear aim, hypothesis, independent and dependent variables, equipment, a method, results and a conclusion. Some great writing MI 🙂

MI begin their history case study

9th January 2023Stacey McClare

What a fantastic expeditionary lesson we had today! So many discussions and voices have been heard. It was so lovely to hear children voicing their opinions and thoughts and linking these to past events. Here children are thinking about a variety of images and what they represent. Children used their knowledge from the starter activity where we thought about inequality through gender, race, employment and wealth. We also thought about the terms equality and equity and what these mean.

We then thought about what equality and equity looks like in MI. We captured small snapshots of our ideas and discussed these in our debrief. Can you guess what we were trying to show?

We then moved onto significant events from history and discussed the importance of photographs. We completed lots of activities working in mini crews and by the end of the session each crew had built their own timeline showing significant events. We will discuss these events in more detail tomorrow. We added our timeline to our anchor chart and will refer to it throughout our history case study.

Hooking in to Expedition!

9th January 2023A Welburn

This week, Crew Welburn are hooking in to our new expedition! We are looking at the expedition ‘How do things grow and change?’ and we are starting with the case study, ‘How can I help my body to grow?’ We begun our day by thinking about foods that help us to grow and how healthy foods are good for our bodies. We did some taste testing of different fruits, made some delicious fruit kebabs and voted for our favourite fruit! We loved tasting all of the different fruits, but our most popular with 11 votes was grapes!

XP outdoors!

9th January 2023A Welburn

This week in crew, Miss Welburn set us a challenge to see if we could make our outdoor area a little bit tidier and safer by sweeping up the leaves and using the litter pickers to put any rubbish in the bin. We did a fantastic job, working together as a crew, and our outdoor area looks much better now 😁

Maths in MI

9th January 2023Stacey McClare

Our maths lesson started with an active starter to consolidate the work we have been doing converting between fractions and decimals 🙂 We had to use our maths skills and clear questioning to find our partner in the room!

Here you can see us all completing our hinge question on ordering decimals. Such focus in MI this morning. So many children completing reasoning and problem solving questions today 🙂

Nursery hook week – Tasting fruit and making fruit kebabs 🍇🍈🍌🫐

9th January 2023Sarah Mcglone

This morning in Crew McGlone, we had a fruit tasting session! We tried a number of different fruits: banana, grapes, melon, nectarines and blueberries. We noticed that some of the fruits were juicy, some were even a little bit slippery and kept jumping out of our fingers! We worked on talking to our peers using full sentences by saying which fruit was our most favourite and which was our least favourite.

In provision we chose our favourite fruits to add to our wooden skewer to make a fruit kebab. We had to be really careful with the pointed end of the skewer and we tried really hard to concentrate so that the fruit went on and did not fall off.

Then came the best part… snack time! We got to enjoy our kebabs with milk at snack time. We talked about whether our kebabs were tasty or not and what our favourite bit was to eat! There was even spare fruit that we got to share between us as an extra treat! Yummy! 😋