Crew Godley had a lovely day in the forest painting leaves , printing them on paper then throwing them in the air, what a lovely sunny day for it.
Category : Curriculum
Do sharks eat polar bears?
This was the question that Crew Godley were eager to find out. We were exploring food chains and the question popped up that could a polar bear be eaten by a shark? The answer was yes! Greenland sharks 🦈 can survive up to 200 years at depths of up to 600 meters under the artic ice 🧊. They are bigger than a great white and been known to eat polar bears 🐻❄️. We were fascinated by the facts we discovered.
Diary entry 📔📝
This week, Crew Mcloughlin have been busy writing their diary entry independently. They are writing from a 10 year olds girls perspective in 1963, who’s dad has made her attend Martin Luther Kings speech that morning. All children have thoroughly planned, used the learning environment to effectively support them and produced beautiful work in the process. I think this is our best writing yet and I cannot wait to share the final redrafts next week!
Safer Internet day 2023
Safer Internet Day 2023 will take place on the 7th of February 2023, with celebrations and learning based around the theme ‘Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online. It is an annual event organised by the UK Safer Internet Centre, which aims to promote safe, responsible, and positive use of internet technology. The internet plays a huge part in the lives of young people today. It can be used positively, helping young people learn new skills, express themselves creatively, and strengthen social bonds. However, the use of many popular online platforms has also been linked to low self-esteem and anxiety. Next week we will explore how we can empower our children with the tools to continue to be safe whilst using technology online. Look out for our crew blogs on Tuesday!
XP Outdoors
National Story Telling Week
Crew Robson and Crew Welburn ended National Story Telling Week by sharing stories together in Crew Welburn this morning. The Year 2 children came down to Crew Welburn with some of their favourite stories to share and read them to our foundation children. Thank you for coming Crew Robson, we really enjoyed having you!
Developing our gross motor skills
Crew Godley have worked really hard this morning to develop their gross motor skills. We used our muscles we’ve been exploring in expedition to move across the trim trail.
Storytelling with EYFS
Crew Godley shared some our favourite stories with Crew McGone today. It was so lovely to see our younger children showing kindess and respect to each other. We all demonstrated lovely listening skills 📚🥰 and we can’t wait to return next week 🥰
Setting description
Today, we have started our writing unit for Case study 2 which will involve a setting description for the ’I have a dream’ speech by Martin Luther King.
We have spent time today starting to use the lens to generate ideas for aspects we could write about and some ideas for figurative language. In our next lesson, we’ll be starting to put these ideas into complete sentences so we have had practice and opportunities to magpie from our peers.
Vocabulary Game
This morning in reading, we’ve enjoyed playing imposter.
During the game, the children had to find either the antonym or synonym that matched their word. This really got the children’s brains working as some of the words are words they may not use day to day. I was very impressed with how they completed the activity because they moved around sensibly, used great communication until they found their matching word and we found the imposter (word without a match).
