LKS2 Beautiful work! 📝

22nd September 2022Simon Gerrard

LKS2 have created some Beautiful Work this week. We have been writing postcards, putting ourselves into the shoes of an evacuee. We really loved how the children used the vocabulary built up from our drama days to put into their writing. We noticed some great adjectives to describe their experiences. We loved how the children worked really hard to add feelings and emotions – these were great. The children have have critiqued each others work and edited; they have then made a best draft which they wrote up on to a postcard!

Blown away by the HoWLs in Crew Welburn this morning!

21st September 2022Kirsty Atherton

This morning I visited Crew Welburn- F2 during their Expedition lesson, whereby they were focussing on developing their creative skills including painting using a fork to create texture and pattern, using their body parts and paint (hands) to create images and practising their drawing and cutting skills. I was blown away by how focussed the children were throughout the Crew. I spotted some fabulous modelling from all of the adults today and the children were really watching so that they could get smart. Finally, I just loved the kindness in this crew, so many children supporting one another to help them to be the best they can be. What a fabulous lesson for Crew Welburn- keep up the ‘great’ work!

Handwriting in MI

20th September 2022Stacey McClare

MI had great handwriting session this afternoon. They thought about the work hard howl by ensuring they had a positive attitude to their learning but they also thought about the get smart howl by producing beautiful work they are proud of. MI were really engaged and are really trying hard to form all letters correctly whilst finding their own consistent style.

KS1 Historians become craftsmen for the afternoon!

20th September 2022Laura Godley

KS1 children delved into the history the the crafts trade within the castle, creating their own clay pots. We explored the how the craftsmen used clay to create their own pots and fine wears for the Lords and Lady’s to feast from. It was not as easy as we thought to manipulate the clay as the craftsmen would have done in the medieval times with very little tools.

Music – Crew Marsh 15.9.22

15th September 2022Sarah Mcglone

Today in music we have continued to look at making beats with our percussion instruments. We started off by working with a partner to create patterns and then repeat them back to one another. We then started to learn our new song ’I Wanna Be In A Band’.

Setting descriptions in MI

13th September 2022Stacey McClare

Today MI created their own setting description linking to the work we have been doing in expedition. We imagined that we were one of the first people to land on the moon and used the feelings lens for support. We applied our learning from our experience day and grammar day and used our anchor charts to support our ideas. We really thought about our get smart howl by reflecting on our achievements and challenging ourselves to improve after critique. We also used our target grids well for support.

A great Monday in MI

12th September 2022Stacey McClare

This morning Crew MI took part in their Caring Crew where we talked about who is in our family, who loves us and why our families make us feel safe. We worked in small groups to build back up a jigsaw using a variety of different families then we discussed what we noticed about the pictures thinking about what was the same and what was different. There was some great collaborative working during this activity which was lovely to see. We then drew our families, describing characteristics about each member, what they are like, what they do and what they enjoy. We then shared these things with the rest of the crew. During our debrief, we thought about what our jobs are as a member of Crew MI and we made pledges for moving forward. Crew was fantastic this morning! Great job Crew MI 🙂

In our expeditionary learning we took part in a grammar lesson thinking about figurative language. We explored similes, metaphors, personification and hyperbole. We worked collaboratively to build our own examples linking them to space and linking to the chapter we have been unpicking in our reading lessons.

A great day in MI, our HOWL score was 3.5 🙂 Lets keep this up MI.