We had a great start to the day this morning when we worked across all of the year 6 crews to do maths. We were looking at the methods for short and long division. We worked really well with one another by helping and supporting each other with these tricky questions.
As part of Expedition, LKS2 generated questions to ask their experts about life during the Second World War. This is in order to better understand how war changes lives. The experts are extra special to Mrs Lewins and Mr Gerrard, as they are grandparents to each.
The excitement from the children was amazing to see, with lots of fantastic questions being asked. We generated a list in which all the children contributed a question to ask these special experts. The engagement was fantastic and we know these experts will share lots of amazing knowledge about their lives during the Second World War!
Imagine what it would be like to be at the top of the Feudal system ordering the peasants around! The KS1 children had this opportunity and took great delight in creating the ‘rules’ for the afternoon. The children took great delight in setting the rules and ordering their crew leaders to be at their beck and call. it was interesting to whip-round and ask children where they would have felt most comfortable in the feudal system, some preferred the craftsmen role and some even doing the the work when they took on the role of the peasants.
The children LOVED their music session today! We rocked out to the beat of some iconic tunes, looking the composure, beat and tone. We can’t wait for next week!
Today in Maths, we have spent time on ensuring we are secure with place value of numbers up to one million. This involved us saying the number, writing it in words, making it on a place value grid and partitioning it. This is an area we have found difficult at times so it was important to take the time and practice this.
Today, LKS2 looked into the consequences of rationing and how it worked. As part of answering our Guiding Question, How does war change lives?, LKS2 looked into the sharing of food during the Second World War. We learned that, due to rationing, the enemy tried to make us starve so that we gave up and surrendered. We learned that chocolate, much to our dismay, would only last a week. Despite this, there were many positives! Rationing stopped us from starving and we actually became healthier as a result of the food eaten!
LKS2 have had an amazing day, learning all about The Blitz. We have used various sources to learn about what The Blitz was, why it happened and how it happened. We have done notices and wonders around pictures, watched video clips, built anchor charts, read some information texts and made fact files. LKS2 really do know How War Affects Lives. Keep up the amazing work, crews.
We have all created a wide variety of posters to show off this learning today and it is lovely to see so much beautiful work from Year 3 and 4. We also found it particularly interesting that during the Blitz, Buckingham Palace was bombed twice!
What a great start to the week, LKS2! 😆
MI started the day well in our challenge crew session. MI had to work together to pass around objects without making a sound. As we made progress with this, we added more objects, changed the direction in the circle and added time limits. A great sense of team work and encouragement from all.
MI have started planning their independent write today. We built our own target grids based on the features from the rubric that we had used previously in our first narrative and used the lenses too. We then used our graphic organiser well to build our own ideas. Children used post it notes to build some of their own sentences using both their target grids and graphic organiser as support. I can’t wait for children to get writing tomorrow and to read their first plot point.
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!
Today, Year 3 continued to work on their football skills. Last week, we learned how to dribble the football and this week, we learned how to pass the ball accurately. By the end of the session, we were able to pass the ball with more control through narrow cones. More impressively, our first touch was pretty solid. Keep up the good work Year 3!
