Today, LKS2 have been lucky enough to have their family learning day. It was such a lovely vibe seeing lots of happy, smiling faces in the hall today. What a great turn out – thank you to everyone who came. We excitingly made our own gas mask boxes, just in case there are any surprise attacks from the enemy!
MI have worked so hard to produce their own video on how the earth moves around the sun. They all thought about facts that could be used within the video to explain the different elements and used scientific vocabulary that they had learnt within the lesson. All children showed a great deal of respect for each other, listening to each other and giving one other the confidence to speak. Great work MI 🙂 Scan the QR code to have a look!
Today we completed a challenge to ‘re-create’ the Earth, Sun and Moon in an informative video to build up knowledge of key vocabulary and scientific learning of Earths rotation and revolution. This linked to our expeditionary learning (CS1 physics) and was a great recap of yesterdays learning. We worked on our team working skills and communicating in bigger groups. We had to also use our IPAD skills to ensure our recording was final product quality.
From our IPADS we screen shared our videos on the board for the rest of the Crew. They ensured our knowledge was correct and worthy of using for our expedition final product. Watch this space for the final edit coming soon…
We started the day off with another active Crew. This time, we worked on building up trust, talking clearly and encouraging our crew mates. We had to walk with our eyes closed and give instructions of where to walk. We then debriefed with our steps to success and our feelings during this time.
During maths, we continued to work on place value by consolidating what we already new about base 10 representations and actual numbers. We worked together to solve these and showed how much we have become smart over recent lessons!
Then, it was Expedition for the rest of the day. We continue to delve deeper into how war changes lives! We explored the lives of evacuees. We watched propaganda videos and discussed whether the children were as happy as they looked. We had a silent conversation to see what we noticed and wondered about evacuees. Finally, we studied what would have gone into an evacuees suitcase and when children began to be evacuated to the countryside.
The first two days of this week have been busy, but we’ve started the week really settled and with a great attitude to learn. We started the week off by drawing someone who is a friend to us as part of Crew, to put a smile on the faces of our friends.
During our Expedition, we have have continued to build up our knowledge of the Second World War. We completed a KWL to share what we already knew about this interesting period of history and asked questions about what we would like to know. We continued to act out the life of an evacuee with the book Bombs and Blackberries as we shared our performances with the Crew and critiqued them with praises. Lots of praise being for expression and performing in front of others!
Y5 and Y6 were able to visit the National Space Centre on Wednesday where we had time to explore all the different interactive galleries and the UKs largest planetarium. The children had the opportunity to see shuttles, rockets, space suits and even a real piece of the moon.
During the day, they were able to read lots of information which then allowed them to answer some questions around our second case study for this expedition focusing on forces.
We also took part in a workshop all about the Sun, Earth and Moon. We took part in a quiz then took part in a practical activity around how we get day and night and seasons. Afterwards, they explored the phases of the moon and then produced a turn wheel to help them remember each phase.
Every child displayed awesome HoWLs and they really did themselves and school proud. This fieldwork has really hooked us in to our learning and we cannot wait to get started learning even more about our expedition!
LKS2 were transported back in time to the Second World War. The children entered the church at Wilderspin, dropped off their supplies and were ready to learn about the British home front. Churchill’s Carcroft Cogs demonstrated the British Bulldog spirit on the home front.
The groups were lucky to meet Betty, an ARP warden. She taught the children about the different groups that helped keep Britain safe during the Second World War and the threat of enemy raids, particularly from the air. We then were lucky enough to sort out scrap ready to aid our soldiers on the front line, check out the Anderson Shelter and then see the variety of gas masks. Keep an eye out for the baby gas mask!
In the other group, we had a particularly strict teacher leading us in class, checking on supplies and then protecting us through an enemy bombing. The children were not afraid though and displayed tremendous bravery, as sirens rang, bombs whistled and the air defences boomed.
It’s been a successful blast off for the Carcroft Cosmonauts as we journey to outer space (or Leicester). We expect to enter the National Space Centre’s atmosphere in just under an hour and can’t wait to view the stars from there! We’ll report back later. Out.
LKS2 started their new academic year by completing a Crew circle. During that, we all shared lots of lovely, happy stories of our summer holidays: this included time playing in the pool and wonderful sounding holidays!
After this, we then went onto complete some maths and started by chanting our multiplications without any hesitation or signs that we had had a summer break. What impressed me even more was our knowledge of place value, which we will continue to explore in the coming weeks.
Once we had some fresh air to keep our brains fresh, we then went onto to look at images and illustrations from our new book. We had so many brilliant incites into the images and shared lots of clever inferences. I think we’ll be just fine when we get further into the book after todays showing!
During the afternoon, we started to explore the Hook Week part of our new Expedition. We’re trying to guess what our Guiding Question could be and I am interested to see what else we come up with throughout the rest of the week. We do, however, know that we are looking into the Second World War, which definitely perked up our interest as we looked at images from the War and relating to it. We worked collaboratively to come up with wonders and notices about these images. Ideas given were ’where could the children be going on the train?’ and ’that is a gas mask used in dangerous situations’. It was great to see such enthusiasm straight away!
LKS2 are excited to share the video to our song, Dear World!
Remember, you can stream the song on all music services and buy your copy on the XP Website! https://childrenofxptrust.bandcamp.com/album/dear-world
These donations will help the Yorkshire Wildlife Foundation massively and anything donated is much appreciated! 😃
Thanks,
Years 3 and 4
